In a break between County Cup games, Old Richians entertained a spirited Dursley side at home.
The game started off slowly with Dursley pushing into the Richians half, before centre and captain Dan Spencer-Tonks started the scoring for the home side with an unconverted try. Undeterred Dursley answered almost immediately with an excellently worked try which they converted, shortly afterwards they were awarded a penalty under the posts which was slotted over with ease to leave the hosts trailing by 5 points. The home side then got into the game dominating through their strong forwards at every scrum, with Number 8 Toby Freeman, Prop Jack Murdoch and Flankers Harry Barr and Jack Lewis gaining yards with every touch of the ball and Richians fast running backs cutting through the defence, with Fly Half Jake Melocia and scrum half Harry Preece encouraging fast ball whilst full back Lewis Haddow collected up any space kicks that Dursley tried. This enabled a period of rapid scoring, with wing Kirk Johnson, prop Ryan Bayliss, centre Josh Harris and a further try from Spencer-Tonks before half time.
After the break Dursley came out strongly putting in unrelenting effort, and pushing the home team, however there was only going to be one winner. Bayliss started the scoring minutes into the second half, swiftly followed by Harris, Spencer-Tonks and Bayliss before a slip in the Richians defence allowed Dursley to complete a well worked converted try. The visitors didn’t give up throughout the game, but were unable to stop a 4th try by Spencer-Tonks, followed up by Lewis, with the game finished off by a piercing break culminating in a try for Haddow. Conversions Spencer-Tonks (4), Harris (1), Preece (1)
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