Drybrook Ladies 33 pts
Swindon Supermarine Ladies 25 pts
Drybrook ladies welcomed Swindon Supermarine to the Mannings on Sunday 4 December for there last home game of the year.
Drybrook played away from the club first half, although the sun was shining the temperature was sub zero.
After 9 minutes of tough rugby Drybrooks Hannah Meek managed to find space running the full length of the pitch to score out wide leaving Ellie Underwood with too much to do to add the extras making the score 5-0.
No further score came until the 24th minute when Ellie charged through for an interception and run away try this time adding the extras to increase Drybrooks lead.
Just moments later Drybrook were defending there own line when Supermarines were awarded a penalty for Drybrook being offside.
A quick tap and go forced them over the line to score out wide to close the gap to 12-5.
Just before half time a strong carry from Lucie Smith with an off-load to Jess Hunt and a pop to Ellie going over for her second try of the
match converting to take Drybrook into the break 19-5.
The second half kicked off and no score came for nearly 15 minutes until Supermarines scored two quick tries in 4 minutes closing the gap and forcing Drybrook to defend at 19-15.
On 26th minute of the second half Ellie once again managed to recover the ball and run 70 metres to score under the posts.
With the score at 26-15 Drybrook stepped off the pressure once again and was punished by a further two unconverted tries making the score 26-25.
With only one point in it with everything to play for the last attack came from Drybrook with Ellie scoring her fourth try of the match with conversion ending the game 33-25 to the home side.
Forward of the match went to Lucie Smith for her hard hitting tackles.
Back of the match went to Kat Brain for reading the game well and text book tackles.
Drybrook Ladies XV: Lucie Smith, Stevie Liddiatt, Julie Ann Norbury, Dorrie Morley, Karina Hall, Jess Hunt, Emma Gibson, Micha Harris, Kat. Brain, Kara Tucker, Frankie Meadows, Hannah Meek, Emma Hughes, Judith Arslan,
Replacements Chanise Beard, Lorna Griffith, Chantel Lewis, Roxanne Carter, Bethany Lawrence, Laura Green.
