PHIL Hanson scored a hat-trick of tries as Chinnor Wildboys extended their unbeaten run this season to 19 matches.

Our 3rd XV crossed 13 times at Kingsey Road to record their 18th win of the campaign and remain five points clear at the top of Counties 1 Southern North.

Karl Crockford (2), Sam Jones (2), Rob Nicholls, Sam Ludgate, George Blewitt, Ben McIntosh and Dan Coulon also dived over, with Charlie Nicholls enjoying another good day from the boot, converting nine of the tries as he takes over as the Club’s leading point scorer this season with 97.

The opening exchanges proved to be a good physical contest between two equally matched sides, but we took the lead on 12 minutes when centre Nichols cut inside to score under the posts. Nicholls – playing at fly-half this week - added the extras for a 7-0 lead.

The match continued in the same vein, before five tries in the space of 14 minutes saw us head into the break with a 42-0 advantage.

Tighthead Ludgate scored our second, before Hanson profited off his own charge down. A miss-kick from the kick-off then led to loosehead Crockford – as H put it – ‘galloping like a crazed Ox’ to dive over for our fourth of the afternoon. Nicholls converted all three to make it 35-0.

The raging Ox was at it again to score under the posts on 38 minutes, before centre Blewitt added a well-deserved try – Nicholls converting both – for 42 unanswered points at the interval.

Our Wildboys made a great start to the second half with lock Jones crossing, before wing McIntosh dotted down to extend the lead to 57-0. Great handling then led to scrum-half Coulon adding to our tally and then Hanson crashed over for his second – Nicholls converting – as it became 71-0 after 65 minutes.

Abbey to their credit continued to play with spirit and got on the scoreboard with ten minutes to go through a converted try.

However, we added two further scores with Hanson completing his hat-trick, before Jones grabbed his second for an 83-7 success.

Our Wildboys are now on the road this weekend, heading to north Oxfordshire to take on fourth-placed Bicester in what promises to be a tough penultimate fixture of the season.

Wildboys: Lowe, McIntosh, Blewitt, Nichols, Graham, Nicholls, Coulon; Crockford, Cawston, Ludgate, Inman, Jones, Hackshaw, Hanson, Alexander.
Reps: Williams, James, Chapman.