Saracens ripped the record book to shreds with an incredible 151-0 win over a hapless Dinamo Bucaresti team at Vicarage Road today.
Saracens scored 23 tries as they smashed virtually every record in Parker Pen Shield history. The score is 35 points higher than the previous best, the winning margin 41 points better and the try-count six better.
With Saracens winning the first-leg match 87-11 in Bucharest, the London club recorded a combined scoreline of 238-11.
Saracens led 66-0 at the break, with 10 Saracens players scoring a try apiece in only 40 minutes. Worse was to come for Dinamo, however, with 85 points being racked up in the second half. Australian legend Tim Horan and hooker Matt Cairns both scored try hat-tricks.
Dinamo players will be having nightmares about Saracens. With the 238 points they've conceded to the London club in the past eight days added to the 113 they conceded to them in one match in this tournament last season, Dinamo are averaging 117 points against every time they play Saracens.
Saracens play French club Colomiers in the Challenge Cup, while the Romanian side play Italians Rugby L'Aquila.
Leeds Tykes and Pontypridd are set for a battle royale in December after they drew each other in the Parker Pen Challenge Cup.
Leeds beat Petrarca Padova 52-13 at Headingley, with Argentinian fullback Diego Albanese producing an outstanding performance despite not getting a five-pointer in the seven-tries-to-one victory. Scrum-half Alan Dickens and winger Craig Emmerson both bagged a brace of tries, and Scotland international fly-half Gordon Ross added the icing on the cake in the form of seven conversions and a penalty goal.
The Italian side were right in the match at only 10-17 down at halftime, but could add only a Sebastien Francesio penalty goal in the second 40 minutes as Leeds began finding their rhythm.
Leeds' win sets up a mouth-watering two-leg Challenge Cup meeting with red-hot Welsh side Pontypridd, while Petrarca Padova face fellow Italians Rugby Roma in the Shield tournament.
At Kingston Park, Newcastle took care a determined Grenoble challenge with a 33-17 victory on the back of a second-half try hat-trick to exciting fullback Michael Stephenson.
England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson added 18 points as Newcastle overcame a 9-10 deficit at halftime.
London Wasps had few problems with Rugby Parma, winning 42-0 after leading 22-0 at the halfway stage.
England backrower Lawrence Dallaglio scored a brace of tries in the comprehensive seven-try victory.
London Wasps play Bordeaux-Begles in the Challenge Cup, while Rugby Parma take on Spanish side La Moraleja Alcobendas.
