MATCH REPORT

BIRMINGHAM & SOLIHULL         31    V    18                 BLAYDON

                                      

Try: White, Pons, Lowden (2)                                                  Try: Bell, Wearmouth

Con: Hawkes (4)                                                                      Con: Catterick

Pen: Hawkes                                                                            Pen: Painter

                                                                                                 DG: Catterick

Attendance: 194

Ref: Stephen Lee

BEES: Lowden, Sadler, Evans, White, Pons; Hawkes, Lahmert; Long, Preece, Tau, Quarrie, Todd, Connolly, Reeves, Earnshaw.

REPS: Darkintis, Radburn, Padian, Webster, Stajka.

Man of the Match: Warwick Lahmert - The scrum half put in a fantastic all round display with many dangerous attacking runs to set up two tries.

Try of the Match: The Bee's fourth try, scored by John Lowden - After much pressure from Blaydon, a drop goal had put the visitors within 6 points of a win. Then, four minutes later, Greg Evans made a great run up the line who passed inside to Alex White. After running through two tackles he passed inside to Jon Lowden who ran under the posts. Not only did this take the game away from Blaydon, it was also the fourth try for a bonus point win.

Moment of the Match - Ngalu Tau's tackle - After much pressure inside Bee's 22 in the first fifteen minutes of the second half, the Blaydon scrum half past out for another phase of play to their number 12. He was destructively taken down by Ngalu and caused the man to knock the ball on to take the pressure off the home sides defensive line. Everybody who was at the game could hear the booming tackle from wherever they were around the pitch.