Rugby-Brumbies look to save Australian blushes in Super Rugby playoffs


MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The ACT Brumbies were the only Australian team to lock up a top-four spot in Super Rugby Pacific and are again the nation's best hope of stopping a New Zealand sweep of the quarter-finals starting on Friday.

By the time the Brumbies host the Wellington Hurricanes in Canberra on Saturday in a repeat of last year's quarter-final, they could well be Australia's last team standing.

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