Hartpury RFC suffered their third successive defeat in Saturday’s 71-7 loss to Ealing Trailfinders at the Trailfinders Sports Ground.
The hosts scored 11 tries, including a second-half to nil against Pury, even scoring two tries whilst having 14 men on the pitch.
Pury started the better side in the first five minutes, which resulted in Ealing winger Deago Bailey getting sent to the bin for a deliberate knock-on.
Despite playing with a man disadvantage, Ealing took the lead shortly after the yellow card after Pury’s fly-half Harry Bazalgette had a kick intercepted, leading to a breakaway, some good defending, but ultimately a try for the hosts from a lineout drive, scored by hooker Mike Willemse.
The home side doubled their advantage less than five minutes later through full-back Jake Morris, who went over in the left corner after receiving a switch-back pass from the base of a rolling maul.
Number Eight Will Montgomery added Ealing’s third when he went crashing over in the right corner, running through two defenders to reach the line, in the 17th minute.
Willemse doubled his try tally for the afternoon five minutes later, picking up from the base of a maul, bouncing off challenges to score towards the left corner.
The scoring didn’t stop for the hosts, adding their fifth consecutive try to take a 31-0 lead in the 25th minute, through Morris, who finished off a line break from fly-half Louie Johnson.
Outside-centre Francis Moore got himself on the scoresheet, going in under the posts, breaking a tackle on his way through to further extend Ealing’s lead.
Pury finally got themselves on the board with a solo try from outside-centre Robbie Smith, who danced his way through the Ealing line, to score under the posts and get to half-time 38-7 behind.
Ealing winger Toby Cousins scored first in the second half, 15 minutes in, diving acrobatically in the far corner.
Moore also scored a brace, finding his second on the hour mark as he found himself in acres of space towards the right wing, and he comfortably finished into the corner.
Replacement number eight Kyle Hatherell crashed over from close range, finishing off recycled possession after winger Deago Bailey thought he could dot down in the corner.
Replacement winger Hayden Hyle found the far corner with five minutes left to play after receiving a pass out the back of Cousins’ arms.
Hyle then picked up the perfect line less than 90 seconds later to split the line and cruise in under the posts to add the 11th and final try.
Johnson and Rory Scannell split the kicking duties (due to Johnson being replaced after 62 minutes) and between them made eight of the 11 conversions.
Ealing: Jake Morris, Deago Bailey, Francis Moore, Rory Scannell, Toby Cousins, Louie Johnson (Hayden Hyde 62), Craig Hampson (Michael Stronge 60); Kyle White (Sam Grahamslaw 55), Mike Willemse (C) (Matt Cornish 60), George Davis (Adam Nicol 55), Bobby De Wee (Emeka Atuanya 63), Freddie Stevenson, Fyn Brown, Jordy Reid (Gabriel Mann 57), Will Montgomery (Kyle Hatherell 55).
Hartpury: Evan Morris, Junior Denny (Charlie Powell 24), Robbie Smith, Max Knight (Sam Allford 50), Ollie Holliday, Harry Bazalgette, Cai Gealy (Ollie Allsopp 62); Harry Edwards (Harry Feeney 55), George Knowles (Casey Williams 55), Ollie Minnis (Alex Gibson 55), Jack Davies (Harry Short 41), Dale Lemon, Pete Paramore, Caio James (Jack Gilbert 66), Jay Evans.
Referee: Ben Simpson
Half-Time: Ealing 38-7 Hartpury
Star Players: (Francis Moore - Ealing) & (Robbie Smith - Hartpury)
Stats:
Ealing Trailfinders |
| Hartpury |
10 | Penalties conceded | 14 |
19 | Line-outs won | 12 |
1 | Line-outs lost | 2 |
4 | Scrums won | 2 |
0 | Scrums lost | 2 |
1 | Sin-bins | 1 |
