The Chinnor under 17 Chicks followed in the footsteps of the Chinnor Colts last weekend by travelling down to Bracknell and comprehensively beating them 90 – 0 in very wet and muddy conditions.

Leading by example scrum half and Captain Carly Dudding picked up at the base of the first scrum and going blind scored in the corner. Following the restart flanker Claire Thomas powered through several attempted tackles to again score in the corner. It was then the turn of fly half Olivia Jack to score the first of her 7 tries, yes seven! tries by out sprinting and out manoeuvring the opposition. She then followed up in quick succession with 2 more scores under the posts, both converted by fullback Michelle Lang. Dudding got her second, again from a pickup this time going over between the posts, converted by Lang. A couple of swift returns from restart by Jack, one converted by Lang saw the Chicks 48 points up. Following the restart centre Hattie Buggey smashed through all in front of her before being stopped just short of the line at the cost of the tackling player who had to go off injured. Bracknell cleared to touch on the 22, the resulting lineout won by Chinnor was passed quickly to Dudding who shot round the blind side and over the line for her hat-trick. Jack finished the first half scoring with a chip over and another elusive run from half way and into the corner.

Following several changes at half time Chinnor started with more of the same with Jack zig -zagging through a sea of flailing hands to go over in the corner for her 7^th try.Bracknell then started to get more physical and successfully slowed the try rate. A determined centre Natasha Raud-Alliston broke three tackles to score under the posts, converted by Dudding. Some slick handling put Lang away from halfway to score in the corner. Thomas went on another rampaging run, resulting in her second try. The Bracknell girls never gave up but could not stop a rolling maul driven down the pitch from the Bracknell 22, about 5 metres out Hooker, Leah Allen burst through the middle to score. The 15^th and final try went to No 8 Hannah Buggey following some excellent interplay between backs and forwards.

Chick of the Match went to Jenny Morrell who worked tirelessly throughout the game, especially in the second half taking the additional role of organising the new and inexperienced players.

The next match is at Chinnor – v – Fullerian Furies    Sunday 14.11.04  K/o 2:00 pm