Good win in blustery conditions

Sundays wintery conditions made the trip to Leicestershire a potential banana skin for Sutton U13's. From the kick off Sutton took control of the game running the ball back at the hosts with controlled intent.

Playing up the slight hill Sutton worked hard limiting the home sides playing time in the visitors half. A mix of the excellent interplay between backs and forwards, last years signature play, and a smattering of weather controlled handling errors by both sides made for an interesting game.

Sutton broke the deadlock with Inside Centre Sam Grimshaw driving through a large gap in the defence after some strong play up the left hand side. A brace of tries for Blindside Flanker Lewis Belton a second for Sam and one for Luke Reynolds plus one conversion by Captain Harry Mitcham saw the half time score at 0-27 to the visitors.

The second half saw Coach Mike Mitcham make wholesale changes to ensure the large squad of lads all got game time. The game was evenly contested mostly in the middle third of the pitch, with few clear cut chances for either side. With 7 minutes left Vipers scored a consolation try that came from a Sutton handling error.

A special mention for Bradley Sprague who played his first match for Sutton 13's his first contribution, a giant bone crunching tackle on the Vipers number 8.

All in all a good performance from Sutton with more positives than negatives.

Well done lads.