Crowborough 3’s vs Heathfield Boars 32
Boars stay on top
The Boars went to mid table Crowborough in an attempt to keep their league title hopes alive ahead of visits to two of their main rivals in the next two fixtures. They won the fixture but not in the style to which many have become accustomed.
The Boars had a good opening 20 minutes where they dominated all phases of play and ran in 3 tries. The first from Dave Cook was a taste of things to come as he ran 20 metres through several tackles to score. The second saw Brady Burdett at his best as he dummied his way through to score and the third was another Dave Cook burst followed by him converting his own score. There was then a period of sloppy play and Crowborough came back into the game through a converted try and a penalty kick before Julian Wates crashed over at the end of a good Boars move to take the score to 22-10 at half time.
Crowborough worked hard all through the second half while the Boars dropped in and out of their best form. This led to a drop in the overall fluency of the game but this did not stop Dave Cook from getting his hat trick of tries as he was on hand to finish off when a Julian Wates line break from half way started to look like it might prove too much for the old centre. Crowborough fought back with a good move finished well by their right winger. The Boars favourite score of the day went to veteran scrum half Dave Rhodes who gathered quick ball from the base of a ruck and scampered up the right flank to score. The victory roll he did immediately afterwards was impressive and to this time unexplained. That took the final score to 32-17 in favour of Heathfield and meant at least a share of the league top spot for another 2 weeks.
Man of the Match was Tony Wates for some great work at the set pieces and for terrorising every one in the loose play (even his own players still bear the scars).
Boars Team – M. MacLeod, T. Wates, A. Sutton, P. Hookway, T. Rose, A. Farrell (D. Bird – 30), K. Lewis, D. Cook, D. Rhodes, B. Burdett, D. Hesketh, J. Wates, A. Foster, S. Hollingdale (J. Henry – 50), M. Barber (K. Davies – 50)
Report by Mike MacLeod
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Boars 'Top Guns' 2007/2008 |
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Player Name |
Tries |
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Dave Cook |
9 |
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Adam Farrell |
6 |
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Simon Hollingdale |
6 |
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Rob Woods |
5 |
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Jim Cummings |
4 |
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Mike Barber |
4 |
The Boars
11/10/2007 4:13:12 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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