Sussex Rugby - Heathfield & Waldron RFC - East Grinstead 3rd's 12 Heathfield Boars 36

	Saturday, November 04, 2006

East Grinstead 3rd's 12 Heathfield Boars 36

The Boars continued their winning run in a vital match at East Grinstead. The Boars went into the game as league leaders knowing that the top 6 teams were playing each other and a win would establish their credentials.

After a slightly nervous warm up the Boars came out fast and hit East Grinstead hard from the start. Grinstead were strong in the forwards but Heathfield matched them and after only 5 minutes score with a well worked back move finished off with a strong run by winger Hollingdale. Lewis kicked the conversion

The Boars were passing the ball with confidence and asking questions of the Grinstead defence. This produced more points when Hollingdale popped a lovely pass to Rhodes as he was tackled. Rhodes made more ground and as the cover defence came to him passed to Cook who scored. Lewis missed the conversion.

The game then entered an evenly balanced phase with neither side making the best of their chances and defences on top. This was ended when the Boars made inroads into the Grinstead 22 and a defensive pass went to ground and Sharp was alert enough to kick the ball over the try line and win the footrace to score. Lewis missed the conversion kick.

Heathfield then weathered some Grinstead pressure before countering with a nice try from Barber after good work from Farrell to draw the defence to him. This was the last score of the half and the teams turned round at 0-24 in favour of the Boars.

Grinstead came out in the second half with a lot more determination and worked hard to dominate in the forwards. They received their reward when scrum half Charlie Brown collected a ball from a scrum, darted past Burdett and over to score.

The game turned back the way of Heathfield when Grinstead seemed to be making progress at a maul Jono Sharp suddenly emerged with the ball and made 20 yards before being hauled down. The Boars support was quickest to arrive and once again it was Cook in the right place to score. Cook went on to convert his own try.

East Grinstead was the next to score by putting huge pressure on a Boars scrum and as the Boars back row pushed in to help Grinstead went right and James Pennington carried the ball over to score a converted try.

However the Boars would not leave it there and had the final score when the ball was recycled several time before being fed out to substitute John Long who scored with his first touch of the ball. This brought the game to a close at 12-36 and another win made sure that the Boars remained top of the league for another week.

Man of the match for the Boars was a clear and easy decision. Dave Cook won it for his classy display at number 8.

Boars Team – M. MacLeod (Walker – 70), J. La Roche, J. Geesin (A. Sutton – 40), P. Hookway, T. Rose, J. Sharp, K. Lewis (G. Robinson – 60), D. Cook, B. Taylor, B. Burdett, A. Farrrell, M. Barber, M. McDonald (J. Long - 65), S. Hollingdale (B. O’Neil - 60), D. Rhodes

Report by Mike MacLeod

The Boars
11/4/2006 11:35:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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