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The LA Giltinis visit the Snake Pit to face Rugby ATL in what would be a Major League Rugby classic!

The home side got on the board first through Adriaan Carelse, who converted his own score to give ATL a 7-0 lead before DTH van der Merwe scored LA’s 50th try of the season in the 30th minute, although the conversion was unsuccessful. just 5 minutes later LA Lock Luke White was handed a straight red card for a headbutt in a ruck clearance, and LA were down to 14 men for 20 minutes, with White not allowed to rejoin the game.

With LA a man down, ATL raced out to a 17-5 lead by the 50 minute mark, and just needed to hold on until the final whistle. LA broke through in the 75th minute and Luke Carty successfully converted Angus Cottrell‘s try, but it wasn’t enough.  Rugby ATL handed LA just their second defeat of the season, by a scoreline of 17-12. Rugby ATL made 280 tackles as a team, tying the all-time MLR single game record for tackles by a team, set by the Seattle Seawolves in Round 5 of 2018.