Jack Walsh, Keston Lines, Ben Manning, Nick Smith, Max Heathman and Kieran Goss crossed for our Men’s First XV as they got the better of their National 2 East visitors.

It proved to be a strong end to pre-season as we now build into the National 1 opener at Darlington Mowden Park next Saturday.

With the likes of Lewis Jones, Manning and Walsh getting crucial minutes under their belts, it was another positive afternoon with our set-piece again shining through.

It did not take long for Chinnor to open the scoring with fly-half Will Kelly’s fine kick pushing Worthing deep into their own half. We were patient with our driving maul as we edged closer to the try-line and scrum-half Walsh profited, diving over from close range on two minutes. Kelly stepped up to add the extras as we led 7-0.

Worthing quickly replied through Dan Sargent, but we were clinical and went onto lead 21-5 with only 16 minutes on the clock.

A swift move across the pitch released left-wing Dean Hammond and once we had breached the 22, we made it count. A strong scrum provided the platform, before lock Conor Brockschmidt broke the gain line and fed loosehead prop Lines who forced his way over.

Chinnor continued to knock on the door and, after Worthing were prevented from exiting deep in their own half thanks to great work from Alfie North and Manning, the pressure took its toll. Centre Sam Yawawaya looked to have scored our third try only for it to be held up, however skipper Manning drove over as we played quickly off a scrum to increase our lead to 16 points.

It was proving to be an end-to-end encounter on a hot August afternoon and Worthing quickly replied again when centre Harrison Sims broke through midfield to score under the posts.

Although they were to cross again through Zach Carr, the Worthing scores had sandwiched Chinnor’s fourth try and again the scrum provided the platform, with quick ball sending full-back Smith through a gap and over the whitewash.

Leading 28-17, the first half had been entertaining, but the opening 20 minutes of the second period proved to be a little disjointed and error-strewn for both sides.

Chinnor defended well, though, and went onto add two further tries to reach 40 points.

With Worthing’s Will Hoare in the sin bin, there was no stopping a powerful driving maul on 65 minutes and Heathman, who has been impressive throughout pre-season, crashed over.

Goss then capitalised on an error to run in our final score from 20m, with Kelly - who converted five of the six tries - adding the extras.

Another positive afternoon and now we look north to Darlington.

Chinnor: Smith, Goss, Jones, Yawayawa, Hammond, Kelly, Walsh, Lines, Darlington, Harewood, Down, Brockschmidt, North, Heathman, Manning.

Reps: Blakemore, Carter, Goodfellow, Hodson, Marshall, McNulty, Price, Robinson, Turrisi, Wilkinson, Worrall.