South West One (West)

Bridgwater and Albion 34, Chew Valley 10

BRIDGWATER & Albion produced a clinical performance and scored five tries to see off newly promoted Chew Valley, who competed strongly throughout this tough match.

The opening few minutes saw the visitors attacking but it was Bridgwater who opened the scoring when captain Stuart Heal slotted home a penalty in front of the posts awarded for offside.

The home side then enjoyed a period in the ascendancy and after 17 minutes Chew Valley were reduced to 14 men when they had a player yellow carded.

Almost immediately Roger Drabble went over to the left of the posts to score an unconverted try for Bridgwater.

The visitors responded strongly and a period of pressure was rewarded when Harry Power sprinted down the right touchline to score a try that was unconverted.

On 40 minutes, Sean Mahoney appeared to be through for a try when he was high tackled, as a result of which Bridgwater were awarded a penalty try and Chew had the offending player yellow carded, making the score 15-5 at half time.

Five minutes after the re-start, Heal stretched the Bridgwater lead when he scored a try in the right hand corner.

The hosts continued to exert pressure and, following a line out halfway into the Chew half, Wayne Sprangle collected the ball and ran to the line for try that Heal converted.

Chew were far from finished and against the run of play Harry Stride gathered the ball in his own half and sprinted to the line to score an unconverted try.

In the dying minutes, Drabble produced a good run down the left hand side before the ball eventually found its way to James Collings, who crashed over a for a try which Heal duly converted.

Bridgwater and Albion: Matt Ranson, Shaun Mahoney, Sam Adcock, Ethan Trebble- Westlake, Dam Kemmish, Wayne Sprangle, George Sluman Ollie Steward, Tom Fournier D’Albe, Stuart Heal(capt), Kyran Devitt, Jay Owens, Garryn Basson, Roger Drabble and James Collings.

Replacements (all used): Graham Slorance, Karolis Urbonis and Ryan Barnett