W 41-19

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 Stowmarket 19,

Trojans 41

A team a little depleted by injury and unavailability and made up of regular members of the red and black squads made their way down to rural Stowmarket for a game between teams, with no previous experience of each other.

The game began at a good pace with both sides looking to impose themselves.  Wymondham put on some early pressure but were let down by a few simple handling errors.  However, they stuck at it and were rewarded by a good early try, finished off by the strong running of Christian.  Wymondham continued their early pressure and a fine individual try by Ben followed, shaking off a number of tacklers and showing great strength to reach the line.

Stowmarket were no pushover though and continued to attack Wymondham with some strong running of their own and only some good tackling by the likes of; Patsy, Ben and Jack Evans pevented scores.  Wymondham also made some good breaks themselves from the likes of Christian and Laurie.  The Wymondham forwards worked hard all half and were rewarded towards the end of the half as "Captain Craven" powered over for a fine try, converted by Nick.

In the last minute of the half, Wymondaham let down their guard and Stowmarket scored a fine try to make the halftime score 17-7 to Wymondham.

The second half continued much as the first and the encouraging cry from the head coach of "come on, earn your sausage!" undoubtedly encouraged the boys to greater things.  After a great move involving interplay between backs and forwards, Lawrie scored a try, converted by Nick.

Wymondham continued the pressure and from a 5m scrum and some great support play from Matt and Toby, Jake crashed over for another try.

Anyone thinking Wymondham were easing away were mistaken and Stowmarket bravely fought their way back into the game with some good pressure, resulting in a converted try.

Wymondham came back again to show their dominance and Chritian was only denied a try in the corner by some excellent cover tackling by Stowmarket.

More Wymondham pressure resulted in a try by Nathan, followed shortly by another by Stowmarket.

The final event of the game was a second try by Toby "captain Craven", which rounded off a very competitive and enjoyable game, final score 41-19 to Wymondham.

MVP was jointly awarded to, who else- Toby and also Patsy and after a "drink-off", this was narrowly won by Toby.

Phil Singleton