Newick 1 (15-0) St Francis 1 | Seaford 2 (41-0) Newick 2

Newick RFC 1st XV followed on their defeat of Shoreham with a very impressive win at home to St Francis.
Newick dominated from 1-15 to outplay the powerful visiting pack with some excellent forward play and some fine distribution among the backs.
Newick opened the scoring on 15 minutes when a fine move down the right wing between captain Stuart Wrench and Scrum half James Waylett was finished off in emphatic style by Mark Barnard who smashed his way past the St Francis full back for the try.
As half time approached the play was deep in the St Francis 22 and the visitors defence was constantly being tested, with a minute to go before the break, Dave Whiting peeled off the back off a maul following a line out and crashed over from ten yards.
Newick began the 2nd half with a 10-0 lead and immediately continued to bombard to the visitors with some solid forward running from Neil Morgan and the excellent George Chadwick , you sensed another score was coming, and it soon did with Phil Campbell notching up his 5th try in all competitions this season, Kevin Byrne missed with the conversion to complete a unusually off day with the boot but Newick were comfortable heading into the final ten minutes with a 15-0 lead and never looked threatened, and whenever they did Radim Malina was on hand with some expert tackling , putting himself all over the field.
Player coach Dave Hemsley, who had a fine game himself was delighted with the teams work rate, the hard work during pre season is starting to be rewarded, the game finished Newick 15-0 St Francis.

The 2nd XV had another tough day at the office going down 41-0 to Seaford 2nd XV , credit must go to Wayne Thomas’s men who though who fought hard but the Seaford defence was solid throughout.