St Ives 2's 7 - Stamford 15
St Ives entertained Stamford 2's at Somersham Road on Saturday with St Ives fielding a mixture of youth and experience in the line up. St Ives started well with some great support work by back rowers Bryan Richardson and born again N0.8 Rob Marland making some bollocking runs at the Stamford pack and with excellent rucking work by St Ives most recent married man Pete Wood-Eeles, veteran Jon Clarke and Mark Blackwell. This enabled the St Ives back line led by half backs Ashley Austin and Paul "Sammy" Spencer to deliver good ball to the centre pairing of Chris Sewell and Ben Pinion. The whole team did not stop working in the first half and attacked Stamford with great pace and power but just could not break Stamford’s defence. If St Ives attacking skills were good the defence was even better, with 100% commitment into every tackle by every single member of the team which enabled St Ives to go in at half time with the score at 0-0.
The second half started like the first half ended with no break through from either side, but after 15mins St Ives fell asleep for the first time in the game letting in the Stamford’s winger to score. St Ives went straight back at the opposition fighting and with a hard powerful run by St Ives Captain Oliver "Showbiz" Scott who caught Stamford sleeping which allowed Spencer to put in new scrum half Ashley Austin who marked an excellent debut performance with a try under the posts, with Spencer adding 2 pints with the boot taking St Ives a head for the first time in the game. It looked like it was going so well for the home side but then St Ives lost control of the game, which lost them the game resulting in Stamford scoring 2 more quick tries leaving the score 7-15 to the visitors.
The Man of the match award was shared by the St Ives two hard working flankers Richardson and Scott, the captain wasn’t allowed the award himself, because his team voiced their view on saying that their captains head was big enough already. Captain Scotty talked about the game saying "this was a game that we deserved to win, but we didn't have the gas in the last 10 mins to achieve this. I am very proud of my team today, we worked together as a team and we beat the opposition in every department at some stage of the game. If we carry on playing together I believe success will be carrying this team along this season and I look forward to our next league game away to Sharnbrook & Colworth next Saturday."