Milton Keynes U17's 7 vs. Chinnor U17's 23
Sunday 17th October 2004
  

Chinnor’s third Oxon, Berks and Bucks league match of the season took them up to Milton Keynes on this dreary Sunday. Milton Keynes began with the wind at their backs.

Chinnor began at the brightest, with Dean Spinks dominant in the lineout and Matt Grellier taking virtually all the ball put into the scrum. They eventually converted that pressure into points, when from the ruck out left, Mark Rumble sucked the opposition in before delivering a perfectly timed pass out to Brendon Davis, who fed Tim Hughes for him to give a dancing exhibition. Having weaved his way through the opposition, Hughes passed to Ben Hewitt, who put Marcus Hare into the corner. Ollie Heath could not defeat the wind and acute angle, so the score remained 0-5.

A short time later, Chinnor were awarded a penalty in front of the posts and skipper Ross Gehnich, elected to invite Ollie Heath to take the points. He duly obliged to make it 0-8. The keenly contested half ended with the scoreboard static..

MK came out invigorated for the second half, as Chinnor seemingly appeared to think that the game was all but won. Chinnor paid the price for this state of mind as MK got over under the posts to capitalise on series of five metre penalties. The conversion was a mere formality as the score moved to 7-8.

The score re-ignited Chinnor. They were awarded a five metre penalty them selves and from the quick tap, prop Will Batting crashed over in the corner. Ollie Heath shaved the posts from the conversion attempt. 7-13.

A short while later, Chinnor released their backs and Ben Hewitt stepped through the cover to make it 7-18 under the posts. Ollie Heath did not require an invitation to make it 7-20.

As Chinnor turned the screw, Hewitt received the ball centre-field, took aim and dropped a goal from fifteen metres to close the match out at 7-23.

Perhaps the score line did not reflect the level of the MK performance, but to a man Chinnor performed well and earned their victory.