Chinnor earned their first-ever win over Hartpury in a 36-12 victory at the 4ED Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Hartpury came into their home fixture against Chinnor sitting at the bottom of the Elior CHAMP table after five successive defeats following their only win against Caldy in the season opener.
The hosts set out the traps quickly, earning a lineout close to the Chinnor line after eight minutes, which was subsequently driven and brought down close to the try line, before scrum-half Cai Gealy finished off from close range.
Five minutes after opening the scoring, Pury scored again, through another lineout drive, this one being stopped illegally, leaving referee Jamie Parr running under the posts to award the penalty try and sending flanker Will Cave to the sin-bin.
Despite being a man short, Chinnor responded only seconds later; a knock-on from the kick-off, the visitors had the ball deep into Pury territory before the forwards powered over, with lock Conor Brockshmidt going over. The conversion was controversial when it appeared to miss, and the linesmen disagreed with each other; the referee made the call that fly-half Liam Richman’s kick went over.
The away side levelled and took the lead with the conversion ten minutes before the break when scrum-half Callum Pascoe went in under the posts after a line-break separated the Hartpury line by wing Ben Currie.
Chinnor scored again just before half-time when their captain Alun Walker scored in the right corner, with the conversion being missed, leaving the score at 19-12 to the visitors at the interval.
The away side opened the second half scoring through Walker again, a lineout drive in the left corner to extend their lead further, the conversion missed again.
Wing Kieran Goss scored next for Chinnor just shy of the hour mark in the far right corner. Richman’s afternoon kicking at the posts didn’t get any better.
Chinnor put the game out of sight 12 minutes from time when replacement Scott Hall scored after a flurry of offloads took the away side all the way from the half-way line to the score. This one was converted from under the posts.
Pury remain bottom, and have now gone six without a win ahead of their trip to newly-promoted Rotherham Knights next weekend.
Hartpury: Alex Morgan (Ollie Holliday 67), Charlie Powell, Robbie Smith, Ollie Allsopp, Brad Denty (Harrison James 75), Harry Bazalgette, Cai Gealy (Sam Allford 68); Henry Feeney (Harry Edwards 52), Will Crane (CC) (Casey Williams 68), Alex Gibson (George Perry 68), Jack Davies (CC), Peter Paramaore, Cam Cobbett, Harry Short (Jay Evans 52), Cam Murray.
Unused Subs: Charlie Overton.
Chinnor: Jack Metcalf (Nathan Chamberlain 68), Kieran Goss, James Bourton, Tom Florence, Ben Currie, Liam Richman, Callum Pascoe (Zach Lewis 68); Kai Owen (Oscar Stott 45), Alun Walker (C) (Chris Moore 68), James Johnston (Rob Hardwick 45), Jamie Campbell, Conor Brockshmidt (Harry Gilson-Fox 58), Isaiah Wharton (Harry Dugmore 37), Will Cave, Morgan Passman (Scott Hall 58).
Referee: Jamie Parr
Attendance: 1345
Half-Time: Hartpury 12-19 Chinnor
Star Players: Robbie Smith (Hartpury) & Alun Walker (Chinnor)
Stats:
Hartpury |
| Chinnor |
9 | Penalties conceded | 10 |
6 | Line-outs won | 10 |
5 | Line-outs lost | 0 |
4 | Scrums won | 7 |
1 | Scrums lost | 3 |
0 | Sin-bins | 0 |
