Boston 16 – 29 St. Ives

Boston 16 – 29 St. Ives

St Ives RFC kicks starts Cup run with a comfortable win

St. Ives travelled to Boston (unfortunately not the Massachusetts one!) for the first round of this year’s national cup competition. St. Ives arrived at the impressive Boston ground to find a substantial wind blowing diagonally across the pitch. Captain Ross Mc’Thompson won the toss and decided to play the first half into wind. The Ives pack knew that the first half was going to be a test of character and rightly took it to Boston from the start and set up camp in Boston’s half of the pitch from this pressure James Wood crashed over to score the first try. With the heavy wind the conversion was missed. This spurned Boston into life and they began to use the wind to pin back St. Ives in their 22 and began to put their own pressure on which resulted in a converted penalty and an unconverted try. With St. Ives spending a long time defending in there own half and Boston beginning to tire at the breakdown, Thompson was too quick to the ruck and went over the top, a yellow card was show and 10 mins in the sin bin was his reward, Boston converted the penalty. St. Ives defence was solid to the half time whistled despite Boston throwing everything they had to capitalise on the extra man.

Half time Boston 11 – St Ives 6

After the break and with heads now focused on the job in hand St Ives came out flying and French flyers Emmanuel Horvette scored in the corner. With this St. Ives were back up to full strength and started to use the wind and had a purple patch with further tries being scored by Jerome Walters and Jim Robinson. James Bell should have also had his name included on the score sheet but the referee had seen a forward pass and the try was not counted. Boston pulled a try back but it was too little to late. Late in the game Horvette collected an attempted clearance kick on the half way and demonstrated his running flare by side stepping the Boston Winger and full back before crossing for his second of the match.

Captain Ross Thompson “This is the second week where both our firsts and seconds have won their matches, hopefully we can continue this early season form. With two heavy fixture lists we are always looking for new players”.

St. Ives 1st XV next week (2nd October) travel to Wellingborough OG’s for their next league fixture.