Lucs 22 v 28 Boro Students
Luctonians RFC v Loughborough Students RFC
Saturday 25th September 2021
Mortimer Park
Match Reporter: Geoff Vickress
(Geoffers gets his typewriter out again for this, the first home game of the season – Ed.)
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A big crowd welcomed rugby back to Luctonians for their first home game since February 2020 with an entertaining open flowing game against Loughborough Students. Both sides played throughout with plenty of endeavour with the students eventually getting the better of a hard-working home side.
Students started strongly and despite missing a 1st minute penalty scored when James Langstone stole through following a Lucs error from 22mtrs. Smith converting from in front of the posts (0-7). When Thomas Miles added the students second try following good work from Agbongbon, despite a suspicious forward pass, it appeared the afternoon was going to be a difficult one for the home side. But they rallied and playing open rugby were duly rewarded when Aiden Cheshire was driven over from a driving maul to reduce the arrears to 5-14.
Man of the match, Lucs big second row Owien Harriott-Davis was then unlucky not to score when he just lost out in a sprint from halfway following a kick through and chase to Students full back Tom Smith who dotted down fractionally first in safety. The home side were now in the ascendancy and pulled 3 points back when Owen Randell popped over a penalty on the half hour following a students indiscretion (8-14). But against the run of play and under pressure, Boro scored when James Daniel ran a diagonal line from his own 22 through the home defence to further increase their lead.
Roared on by the home crowd Lucs stole themselves back into the match bang on half time when Sam Jones went over the whitewash following good forward pressure. Randell again converting for a 15-21 score line.
Half Time Score
Luctonians RFC 15 v 21 Loughborough Students RFC
The home side started the second half with plenty of purpose and Sam Jones scored his second try following another driving maul and excellent work by the hard working Aiden Cheshire, Randell again converting to give Lucs a deserved lead (22-21) And with the home side driving forward for more points Students snatched back the advantage when fullback Smith broke through from halfway, and despite a great tackle by the chasing Charlie Grimes, Tom Miles for the students picked up the loose ball before Lucs could make safe to score and he converted his own try for the winning score of a very entertaining encounter (22-28)
Full Time Score
Luctonians RFC 22 v 28 Loughborough Students RFC
Luctonians Scorers
Tries: Aiden Cheshire (23); Sam Jones (39,45)
Convs: Owen Randell (40,46)
Pens: Owen Randell (28)
Loughborough Students Scorers
Tries: James Langstone (11); Thomas Miles (15, 52); Daniel James (34)
Convs: Thomas Smith ( 12,16,35,53)
Star Man
Owien Harriott-Davis
(Luctonians)
Luctonians
15: Rob Bengry 14: Charlie Meredith 13: Josh Watkins 12: Ben Owen 11: Charlie Grimes 10: Lewis Parkes 9 Owen Randell
1: Connor Deignan 2: Ben Link 3: Joe White (Capt) 4: Harry Whiteman 5: Owien Harriot-Davis 6: Sam Jones 7: Henry Monkley 8: Aiden Cheshire
Replacements: Ben Murphy, Brad Smith, Cheik Kone, Jack Forsythe, Rob Lewis
Loughborough Students
15: Thomas Smith 14: Daniel James 13: Joseph Riley 12: James Langstone 11: Sam Blade O’Leary 10: Archie Heard 9: Thomas Miles
1: Sebastian Smith 2: Samuel Westmacott 3: Mink Scharink 4: Tobias Adlington 5: Harry Longworth 6: Nicholas Jennings 7: Mario Pichardie Garcia 8: Tomiwa Agbongbon
Replacements: Isaac Bell, Joshua Toms, Fergus Dick, James Crabtree, Oliver Pyle
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