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Loughton RFC
- Home Game
www.loughtonrfc.org.uk
This game is at
Love Lane, Ongar.
Please
click here for directions.
Match Report for 7th November 2009 from Loughton RFC Website
Ongar 5
Loughton 22
Loughton travelled the few miles to local rivals Ongar on Saturday hoping to
repeat their run of form. As usual both sides were not going to take a step
back so this clash was always going to be a fierce one.
Loughton started the more dominant, putting early pressure on the home side
and pushing deep into Ongar territory.
The result was a penalty awarded
just outside the Ongar 22 but the usual accurate Sayers pulled his kick
wide.
From the 22 restart, Loughton lock forward, Andrew Sheeley gathered the ball
just inside the Ongar half and made a scything run deep into the home sides 22 before
offloading to Stock, who beating another defender put castles in for a try
in the corner.
Ongar came back strongly but a dogged Loughton defence held out for most of
the half up until a well worked try from the home side took the scores level
to end the half 5-5.
The second half was a continuation of the first with both sides playing
positive rugby with tempers fraying at times.
It was Ongar who were to fall foul of their indiscretions first with a
player put into the sin bin for ten minutes. Failing to capitalise on this
Loughton too, soon lost a man to the bin.
Concentrating on hard rugby as opposed to fighting, Loughton soon took the
initiative when back row forward, Arram Eghoyan made an outstanding run
beating four defenders to score his first try for Loughton.
Now with the upper hand the visitors began to turn up the pressure, a
further lack of discipline saw another Ongar player in the bin and Loughton
were on the front foot once again.
It wasn’t long before a well worked passage of play saw Castles cross the
whitewash for a second time to increase the lead to 15-5.
The game was finished off with a great run from centre, Mike Estall making
ground which put Richard Stock in for a try under the posts. Owen Sayers
added the extra points and a hard fought game finished with another
impressive Loughton victory.
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