The Boars Are Back With A Win!

The Boars travelled to Newick for a friendly for the first time in years as our old foes in Sussex Division 3 east have elevated themselves to Division 2 east following the league reorganisation this year.

About 30 Newick players were warming up for the match in late summer sunshine and the Boars were a little nervous prior to kick off as it was clear that there were first team and colts mixing with the second team opposition they were promised. However Rob Streeter thumping into the Newick receiver straight from the kick put the Boars tails up and it was game on.

The Boars relatively lightweight pack put themselves about well and won enough ball to discover that the backs were interested too. However missed tackles led to a Newick try after about 15 minutes. Jack Bayley restored parity when he took a crash ball on a lovely angle that took him between the posts. Half time saw a lot of substitutions, mainly from the Newick camp.

Simon Hollingdale proved that he wants to retain his ‘Top Gun’ status when he took his only opportunity of the game early in the second half by beating two men in the 22 metre area to score in the corner. Dave Rhodes hit a great conversion.

Newick came back with a try on the wide right and their 13 put over the conversion to emulate Boars Man of the match Rhodes.

Following a quickly taken penalty Julian Wates spurned an overlap when he saw a gap in front of him 10 metres out and bullied his way over to score an unconverted try.

Newick again came back with a good forward move that saw them score by the posts with 3 minutes left to tie the game at 17 – 17.

The Boars got the decisive score when Tommy Kiwi made a great initial run to within 10 metres then good support recycled the ball out wide for Adam Farrell to cut back in and top off a very good personal performance by scoring. Rhodes converted and Heathfield weather the last 2 minutes of Newick pressure to gain a hard fought and very enjoyable first win of the season.

Newick proved great hosts and a BBQ was enjoyed by all who remembered that the Heathfield clubhouse was ‘closed’ for the evening.

Boars Team – Mike Fellows, Andy Sutton (Jason La Roche – 40), Joe Geesin (Bryn Groves – 40), Paul Hookway, Mike MacLeod, Ben Taylor, Kenny Lewis, Rob Streeter, Dave Rhodes, Brady Burdett (Julian Wates - 40), Tommy Kiwi, Adam Farrell, Simon Hollingdale, Keith Davies, Jack Bayley.
 

8/25/2007 9:45:46 AM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)