Kempston
38 - 6 St Neots
With a 1:30pm meet confirmed for the Kempston 1st team we always new we were up
for a battle after seeing the St Neots squad out
running through drills an hour and a half before kick off.
With the weather holding out K’s received the kick
off and meant business by running the ball through centres
Tim Argent and Wayne “Bakkies”
Botha who were often double tackled as a sign of
their strength in the contact area.
K’s adopted a good strategy from the line out
releasing ball carriers to set up decent possession for Chris Pitts at 10 to
distribute and test the opposition full back with some clever kick and chases
with Stu Cameron and Paul Beddard
piling the pressure on each time snuffing out any chance of a St Neots counter attack. St Neots
did test the nerve of the K’s defence
and only walked back after 4 misses at goal. The first points to be scored were
by our friend from up north, Andrew Stock who piled over in the corner after
the ball was distributed through several hands. Paul Leggott missed the touch
line conversion. The next passage of play from the kick saw K’s
challenging the line again and after several attempts Tom Trinder finished off some
powerful running by scoring after a powerful run from Simon Ward, Paul Leggott added the extras
form a 12-0 lead. St Neots then stepped up a gear and
attacked the K’s territory and K’s
gave away a penalty for diving over the ball. 12-3 to K’s. Chris Pitts then took the game by the scruff of
the neck by involving strike runners from backs and forwards and from close
range crashed over for an unconverted try 17 – 3 half time.
St Neots scored first through a penalty in the second
half and that was the last of there points with Kempston scoring 3 tries
through Wayne Botha scoring a powerful effort from
outside the 22, Tim Argent taking a spilled ball and breaking through the line
and Paul Leggott taking a floated pass from Botha’s
line break all three try’s converted by Botha from wide left for the right footer.
Special mentions must go to Adam “Big Show” Revell
for his first team return, Ollie Wright for his first team debut and the good
sportsmanship from both sides throughout the game.