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Stourbridge 1st XV
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Sat 29 Oct 2016  ·  National League 2 North
Sedgley Park
27
24
STOURBRIDGE RUGBY
Stourbridge 1st XV
Tries: B Harding, A ElversConversions: L WhitePenalties: L White (4)
Stour suffer last gasp defeat to Sedgley Park

Stour suffer last gasp defeat to Sedgley Park

Huw Jenkins8 Nov 2016 - 19:30

Stour produced a much more spirited performance that put them ahead for most of this game, but they were unable to shake off dogged hosts who secured the lead at the death.

With the hosts coughing up penalties under pressure the boot of outside-half Luke White had kicked Stour to a 0-6 lead in the first quarter. Stour built up pressure on the hosts and a direct run by centre James Otutaha created a break, flanker Billy Harding’s support rewarded with an offload that gave him a run-in under the posts for a 0-13 lead.

Home goalkicker Steve Collins pulled back a penalty but White struck back to give a halftime score of 3-13.

The hosts struck first in the 2nd half, a try for fullback Andrew Riley converted by Collins who added a penalty to bring the score to 13-16. But Stour pressure created a gap for winger Ash Elvers whose elusive running secured a try wide out on the right. Back came the hosts, a punt through by Collins collected deep in Stour’s in-goal by Riley for his 2nd try, bringing the scores to within a point. White missed his next penalty attempt but redeemed himself with a fine long-range strike to take the score to 20-24 with barely 5min to go. But the hosts started to ratchet up the pressure, a kick to the corner seeing their impressive rolling maul finally pay dividends with hooker Jon Matthews the scorer.

As time ran down Stour secured a scrum from the restart but were unable to work White into drop-goal range, the hosts grateful to kick the ball dead and celebrate victory after a penalty award for obstruction. Stour took a well-earned bonus point but are now 6th in the Nat 2 North table.

Match details

Match date

Sat 29 Oct 2016

Kickoff

14:30

Attendance

195

Competition

National League 2 North

League position

3
Sedgley Park
6
Stourbridge
Further reading

Team Sponsors

Player Sponsor - Heatflow Contracts Limited
Player sponsor - Watertight International
Player sponsor - Paarl
Player sponsor - The Foresters Arms
Player sponsor - The Fountain at Clent