Jackson clinches it for Sarries

Slick Saracens

killed off Glasgow

Warriors' European

dream last

night after the

hosts produced an

error-strewn display.

Sean Lineen's team had

only themselves to blame

after two moments of

madness cost them the game

as Saracens secured a home

tie in the Heineken Cup

quarter-finals.

The first clanger came from

winger Hefin O'Hare who

misjudged a speculative kick

from fly half Glen Jackson.

As he tried to usher the ball

over the dead-ball line,

Saracens winger Richard

Haughton showed great

opportunism to dive on the

loose ball for the game's first

try after four minutes.

The second rush of blood

came when Johnny Beattie's

pass was intercepted superbly

by Jackson who strolled in for

Saracens second try to put

them in control.

Glasgow had to secure a

bonus point win to make it

into the quarter-finals and

for that to happen they had

to score four tries, but they

never came close.

Dan Parks'

penalty kicking and Bernardo Stortoni's solitary secondhalf

effort — when Kevin

Tkachuk and Thom Evans

combined slickly to create the

space and time for the Argentine

to finish in style — was all

they had to show for a

spirited display.

But Glasgow had no answer

to the elegant Jackson who

controlled the game for long

periods in front of a club

record crowd of 5,213.

Indeed, Saracens always

looked in control but they

also showed ineptitude of

their own in front of the line.

Their main culprit was

Brent Russell who fumbled

the ball only a few yards from

the Glasgow try line in the

closing stages with nobody

near him. If the visitors had

taken that chance they

would have saved themselves

a nervous last few minutes.

Saracens skipper Neil De

Kock said: The quarter-finals

were always our aim and now

we can think about going

even further with a home

tie.'

In the other Pool Four game last night, Biarritz

ensured hapless Viadana

remained winless as they ran

out 25-16 winners at the Parc

des Sports Aguilera.

USA winger Takudzwa

Ngwenya ran in two of the

h o s t s ' f o u r t r i e s , w i t h

Jacques Cronje and Manuel

Carizza adding the other

touchdowns and Marcelo

Bosch kicking one conversion

and a penalty.

Calvin Howarth was the

star for the Italians, scoring

one converted try and landing

three conversions.