West Hull went into this fixture knowing that only a complete performance would be enough to beat a very good Skirlaugh side. The fixture was moved to a new location of South Holderness School due to a football tournament at Skirlaugh’s normal home ground, but this did not detract or dampen either side’s enthusiasm for a great game of rugby.

Straight from the kick-off West Hull put themselves under pressure when they uncharacteristically lost control of the ball at the play of the ball. Skirlaugh took advantage of this and their big forwards continuously drove at the West Hull defence, but in what would be a telling factor in the game West’s defence proved too strong.

Both sides defended well for the next 10 minutes until West’s finally broke the deadlock when Adam Rusling saw the opportunity to go down the short side and feed Kai Brown who used great strength to force his way over, the conversion was missed and score stayed 4-0 at Half-time.

The second half started with the game still in the balance and again both sides played some good rugby which was thwarted by solid tackling. West‘s top defenders where again Kai Brown, Archie Fletcher, Tom Verity and Ethan Devine who put in great performance at prop.

It was after this great defensive work that West’s next opportunity came when Archie Fletcher drove the ball in and broke through the defensive line and then a side-step on the last defender to dive over under the posts, conversion by Lewis Wilson was successful to make the score 10-0.

The next try of the game came from Tom Verity with almost a replica of the one he scored last week, he found a gap on the outside and sprinted 40 metres down the touchline with a little in and out on the fullback for a try and make the score 14-0.

Skirlaugh responded to this and came back at West’s with even more vigour and just as it was looking like West’s were going to keep their line intact for the full game Skirlaugh managed to score in the left hand corner to make the score 14-4 and setup a tense last 5 minutes for the supporters of both teams. But this was to be the final score of the game as West Hull came out worthy winners 14-4.

Man of the Match was shared again between Ethan Devine who made some great yards with the ball and Kai Brown whose defence in the last quarter of the match was outstanding.

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