Jorgensen double keeps Waratahs perfect as Chiefs Reds slip up

The New South Wales Waratahs remain the only unbeaten team in Super Rugby Pacific after Dan McKellars side handed the Western Force a 34-10 loss as the Waikato Chiefs and Queensland Reds both slipped to their first defeats.

The Chiefs continue to lead the standings by a point despite suffering a 28-24 reversal against the Fijian Drua while the Reds were on the end of a 43-19 loss to the Canterbury Crusaders in Christchurch on Sunday.

Max Jorgensen scored a pair of tries to take the Waratahs up to second with a commanding victory in Sydney, the Wallabies winger leading his team to a third win in a row.

We started to unlock our attack tonight, which was pleasing, said head coach McKellar, whose side have played one game fewer than the Chiefs. We scored six tries and the backs scored four.

We had the intent to shift the ball, we managed to do that and at the same time we continued to show that physicality and effort that weve been talking about, and fight.

Encouraging. Happy.

The Chiefs remain in pole position even after Drua winger Ponipate Loganimasi scored the game-winning try with 15 minutes remaining at a rain-soaked Churchill Park in Lautoka.

Trailing 12-6 at the interval, the Drua fought back in the second half to pick up their first win of the campaign.

Loganimasi played a key role in the fightback, palming a high-ball into the path of Vuate Karawalevu to score the Druas second try in the 59th minute after Meli Derenalagi had crossed the line two minutes into the second half.

The former Fiji sevens player then sealed the win with a moment of individual skill, chasing down his own chip over the Chiefs defence before racing onto a second kick as it slithered across