Chinnor occupied Bury St Edmunds’ half from the start with driving runs from Tom Price and Ben Pienaar taking play to within 5 metres of the try line allowing Basil Strang to dive over and convert his own try after 10 minutes. Further pressure by Chinnor resulted in a penalty for them converted by Strang.

Bury St Edmunds rallied with two penalties converted by Lyle, only for Chinnor to respond with another forward drive putting Tom Burns over for his first try converted by Strang. This was soon followed by an unconverted try by Alex Bradley.

Chinnor achieved their bonus point try after just 30 minutes when a surprised Mark Darlington found himself in the fly half position and gave an impressive pass to Burns who charged over from 22 metres with Strang converting. Bury St Edmunds kept their hopes alive with a long pass to winger Lyle who touched down in the corner and converted his own try just before half time. The score at the interval being 13 – 29 in Chinnor’s favour.

Chinnor extended their lead soon after the restart with Barnes switching the direction of play to put Charlie Broughton over for a try converted by Strang. Bury St Edmunds never gave up with their pack driving towards the Chinnor line and being awarded a penalty try converted by Lyle. Chinnor’s flanker, Bradley was given a Yellow card for the offence.

Chinnor’s 14 men maintained control and another driving maul put Burns over for his hat trick of tries. Strang converted to take Chinnor’s tally to 43 points. With 10 minutes to go Chinnor were awarded a penalty try converted by replacement fly half, Bentley.

Bury St Edmunds counter attacked well in the last few minutes but it proved to be too little too late with Chinnor winning by 50 – 20.

It’s now 800 points scored and five wins on the bounce for Chinnor who welcome Cinderford to Kingsey Road next weekend. The visitors themselves are on a hot streak having not lost since the turn of the year so it should be an epic encounter!

Teams
Bury St Edmonds
Liam McBride, Scott Lyle, Shaq Meyers, Sam Sterling, Jaid Wiltshire,Tom Rock ©, Harry Anderson-Brown, Toby Trinder, Dan Collins, Cai Griffiths, Louis Whetton, Ben Turner, Sean Stapleton, Dave Micklethwaite, Enzo Comin

Interchanges: Luke Palmer, Matt Selby, Matthew Hall, Matt Edison, Tomas Rodrigo

Chinnor
Kieran Goss, Luke Hibberd, Danny Barnes ©, Charlie Broughton, Henry Lamont, Basil Strang, Josh Davies, Tom Price, Mark Darlington, Joe Hutchinson, Nathan Hannay, CJ Osazuwa, Ben Pienaar, Alex Bradley, Tom Burns

Interchanges: Jay Tyack, Koree Britton, Ben Manning, Greg Goodfellow, Jonny Bentley

Scorers
Bury St Edmonds
Tries (time): Lyle 39, Penalty 50
Conversions (time): Lyle 39, 50
Penalty Goals (time): Lyle 16, 18

Chinnor
Tries (time): Strang 8, Burns 21, 28, 57, Bradley 24, Broughton 46, Penalty 70
Conversions (time): Strang 8, 21, 28, 46 Bentley 57, 70
Penalty Goals (time): Strang 13

Referee: Daniel Collins
Attendance: 252
Half time score: 13-29
Full time score: 20-50
Star man: Basil Strang - Chinnor