Bridgwater & Albion RFC 27-22 Clifton 2nd XV – Match Report

Bridgwater & Albion RFC 27-22 Clifton 2nd XV RFC

Bridgwater and Albion RFC move up to fifth place in the table after beating a young, fit and fast paced Clifton side at College Way on Saturday.

The first few minutes of the game were played at a frantic pace with Clifton straight into the attack.  The home side countered well and a Jay Owens kick to the left resulted in Lewis Plece going over for a try.  This put the home side ahead.

The lead was short lived.  Then Clifton worked the ball well across their back line before it found Jack Hewitt who crashed over for a try left of the post.  Luke McMullan then converted.

Good series of moves from Bridgwater & Albion RFC

Bridgwater came straight back and a series of good moves.  This saw the ball worked well to Taylor Buller down the left flank who went over for a try by the posts.  Kyran Devitt then converted.

The hosts extended their lead just before the hour when Devitt scored an unconverted try on the right.

Bridgwater found themselves reduced to 14 players.  Alex Knight was yellow carded and from the ensuing penalty Clifton reduced the arrears.

 A player down no problem for the home side

Being a player short didn’t seem to hamper the home side too much.  Following a period of pressure Taylor Buller went over in the left hand corner for his second try of the game.  This making the score 22-10 at the break.

Bridgwater continued to create pressure after the interval.  There were series of scrums deep in Clifton territory but the Albion were unable to find a way through.

When Jordan Buller did eventually manage to find a gap he was held up on the line.

Clifton rallied on

Clifton rallied strongly in the final quarter and the game became an end to end affair.  Devitt chasing back to field a long clearance before setting off on one of his threatening runs.

With 10 minutes of the game remaining Bridgwater kicked a penalty to touch in the left hand corner and from the line out a driving maul saw Jordan Buller crash over for an unconverted try.

In the dying minutes Bridgwater lost Harrison Cornish to the sin bin after a brief mid field altercaton following which Clifton took advantage and scored two tries one of which was converted.

Spirited performance throughout

However the Bridgwater Boys who put in a spirited performance throughout the game dug deep and were thoroughly deserving of their 27-22 victory.

On Saturday Bridgwater travel to play at Midsomer Norton.

 Team Bridgwater & Albion RFC

Harry Pentelow, Jordan Buller, Graham Slorance, Tom West, Harrison Cornish, Alex Knight, George Sluman, Taylor Buller (capt), Jake Knight, Jay Owens, Aidan Robinson, James Collings, Lewis Plece, Danny Mahoney and Kyran Devitt.

Replacements- Mike Saunders, Tom Hopkins and Will Kerry.

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