A mixed team of Boars and Development team players enjoyed a close game of rugby on a cold but bright and sunny day. Early scores from Duncan Hesketh and rob Woods put Heathfield in a good position before St Francis really woke up. When St Francis capitalised on a Boars mistake to score the game got interesting. Heathfield were relieved when Nick Seddon scored and more so when Jack Bayley got another on half time to take the score to 24-5.

Hesketh charges through to score early on...

Kenny "KFC" Lewis takes good ball at the lineout...

The second half started well for St Francis with two early tries during a period when Heathfield went down to 13 men due to an injury and a sin binning. Once restored to 14 men Heathfield were very thankful for a fine score from Jim Cumming after a penalty was awarded on the Francis 22. After this St Francis piled on the pressure and the Boars limited St Francis to a single try in this 20 minute session as the clock wound down. With the final move of the game Levi Willis made the score more respectable as he finished off a good backs move.

Heathfield under pressure at the scrum...

Man of the Match was all round action man Chris Jones.

Boars Team – M. MacLeod, J. Bayley, C. Jones, J. Cumming, I. Schleider, S. Green, K. Lewis, S. Barrow, M. Jaques, S. Goatcher, J. Wates, D. Hesketh, L. Willis, N. Seddon, R. Woods

Match report by Mike MacLeod

2/2/2008 9:27:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)