Brive secured a place in the European Challenge Cup quarter-finals after they beat Connacht 22-15 at the Galway Sportsground on Friday night.
The French side will almost certainly qualify be as one of the three best runners-up, with Newcastle Falcons likely to win the pool as they face Spanish side Cetransa El Salvador on Sunday.
Connacht winger Matt Mostyn opened the scoring with a 27th-minute try, but
opposite number Farid Sid replied almost immediately and Maxime Petitjean's
penalty goal gave the visitors an 8-5 lead at the break.
Petitjean converted second-half tries to replacement front-rower Jawad Djoudi
and centre Suka Hufanga, and Connacht had to make do with a consolation effort
from replacement winger Conor McPhillips.
In a Pool 5 match between two sides with no chance of progressing, Dax secured
their first victory of the tournament with a 22-0 result at home to Calvisano.
Dax took a 10-0 lead at halftime, on the back of a penalty try and the boot of
full-back Laurent Diaz. Winger Paul Dabrin and flanker Mattheiu Lievremont,
younger brother of new France coach Marc, added tries in the second half, but
the convincing win wasn't enough to move Dax from bottom place in the pool.
