Match Reports

Sunday 8th January

Pinner under 13s unbeaten in 2012!

Pinner U13 22 – Old Abbotstonians 19

A BRILLIANT 80-metre run by full back Kai Gordon four minutes from time produced a late winner for Pinner in a tough and hard-fought match.

Abbotsonians, whose numbers were brought up to 15 by a few Pinner players, scored three tries in the opening half, two of which were converted. In the second half, the entire Pinner squad went into top gear and scored all of their 22 points.

Kai scored the first of his two tries ran on to a pop pass from a ruck to crash over. Then after a lot of pressure Charlie Gasgoine used his power off a tap penalty to force his way over the tryline through three tackles.

Pinner produced one of their best attacking moves of the season through the hands from scrum half to winger and George Sanders was desperately unlucky to be stopped short of the line. From the resulting scrum, scrum half Tom Roycroft-Davis dodged down the blind side to touch down.

Abbostonians thought they’d scored a winner when their best player ran the length of the field but failed to touch the ball down over the try line. Then came Kai’s dramatic try to put Pinner ahead, and Tom R-D’s conversion made sure of victory.

Pinner’s pack, helped by some of the U12s, put up a superb fighting effort in the second half, and the backs showed some great handling.

Chris