2s Dismantle Dudley

After a strong showing at Bromsgrove last week, Sutton 2nds returned home looking to crack on against Dudley Wasps. A promising start saw Sutton with a lineout ten metres out from Dudley’s line and after a short drive, Ben Bottomley surged off to cross for the first try. It was a case of de-ja-vu at the restart as Sutton soon found themselves driving another lineout in that same left-hand corner, this time however it was second row Josh Benjamin who broke off to score the try.

From there the backs got involved, first centre Ashley Oyekan jinked his way through the defence from around halfway to get two successive tries. Fly-half Steve Piper struck a deft grubber kick through the defence and a dedicated chase forced the Dudley fullback to carry the ball over his own line to give Sutton a five meter scrum. Sutton’s front row had the better of their opponents leading to hooker turned centre (for a day) John Ursell going over between the posts.

The tries continued to flow up until half time at which point rather than kick a penalty into touch and take a break, Piper struck a cross-field kick which was hacked on eventually leading to scrum-half Huw Edwards diving on the ball for the try.

Sutton continued in the same vain in the second half, Oyekan scored another to make it a hat-trick whilst Bottomley also bagged another try. Eventually Bromsgrove got some prolonged possession when Sutton found themselves down to fourteen men, but the defence held out, not leaking a single point for the second week in a row.

The game concluded with a flurry of tries when Dudley proceeded to send kick-off after kick-off to winger Rhamel Blake who ran it back with interest every time. Note worthy tries went to Adam Bennett, who benefitted from a show and go by Piper to sprint away from just outside the twenty-two and prop Richard Parfitt who cropped up in the back line to crash his way over.