Lordswood II 05 - 27 Faversham I
Lordswood II’s travelled down to Faversham to play a well drilled 1st team that was having a good season at the top of the Shepherd Neame League - Dragon Fire Division 5 (played 9 won 9).
Undaunted Lordswood started well dominating much of the possession to keep Faversham on the back foot, but it was the home side that opened the scoring with an unconverted try. Lordswood quickly responded with a great pass from James Doorman to his brother Mark who crashed through defensive tackles to score the visitors only points of the afternoon. Both teams were evenly matched in the first 40 mins with the score a respectable 10-5 to the home side at half time.
The second half started with the visitors taking their turn to face into the sun, strong commitment but a lack of overall fitness started to show though as Faversham scored again and this time converted.
A couple more scores by the home side meant Lordswood could see the match slipping away. Not giving up though and with the final whistle looming Lordswood forwards rucked well inside the Faversham 22, Al Canon feed Big Andy and Sy Kaya good ball from the base and saw them crashing over the game line, staying on their feet the forwards quickly supported them creating a great driving maul. Pushing hard for the line inside the Faversham 5 metre a try looked certain, unfortunately strong defence and an infringement meant the ref blew the whistle in Faversham’s favour and the home side quickly cleared their lines.
A good all round performance by Lordswood giving them something to build on for the remaining season.
