Clevedon 1st XV 3 vs. Chinnor 1st XV 43
SW League Division One
Saturday 18th February 2006

Rewi Tolich scored a hat-trick as Chinnor surged back to the top of the table with a 43-3 victory at Clevedon.

The Kiwi winger was in fine form in a game that was switched to a local school after Clevedon's pitch was waterlogged.

With promotion rivals Clifton and Weston-super-Mare drawing 15-15 in Bristol, Chinnor lead the division by a point.

The new venue was hardly ideal, but both sides adapted well to the conditions.

Clevedon opened the scoring with a well-struck penalty in the fifth minute from fly half Dan Hawkes.

Chinnor full back James Hewitt equalised with a penalty and converted Tolich's first try after Andy Milburn had gone close.

Their second score came when centre Sam Soane broke the defence and fed winger Jamie Hiscock, who sprinted 30 metres to touch down in the corner.

Hewitt's conversion made it 14-3 at the break and Chinnor resumed with No 8 Raakai Maxwell tearing into the Clevedon pack.

With most of the play taking place in Clevedon territory, Tolich again joined himself the forward thrusts to gain two more tries.

With Hewitt adding conversions to both of these efforts, Chinnor were well and truly in the driving seat.

Two fine individual tries, one from replacement Richard Williams and the other from Matt Buckley, plus another Hewitt conversion, completed the scoring.