A tough game sat for the two top sides. It was never going to be pretty but we managed to keep a clean sheet at the top of the league. We lost some key player's to the 1st team including Ryan Chivers who was down to start at 8 and our fly half Richard Wood. We started with Jon Brookes in the row who was Barnstable's man of the match with Dan Williams back at No8. Paul Birchall played at 10 and we brought in Promising colt Joe Ward who had an exceptional game at outside centre. The game started  slow with both sides struggling to work each other out. Tony McCarthy kicked an early penalty which was returned by Barum. We had some good early breaks from Joe ward and ever improving ex teignmouth player Simon Dorey who could of been in for a try if he'd opted not to try and hurdle a Barum player which he got penalised for. We finally broke their defence and winger Richard Sutherland went over in the corner. Barum slotted another penalty to make it 8-6 at the break. We played with alot of heart and the defence was solid in the second half, yet we couldn't seem to convert pressure into points until ex regular player Lewis White came on off the bench to go over in the corner from a well linked forward/back try. Barum camped on our line which seemed an eternity until they finally went over in the corner in about the 7th minute of injury time. They needed to convert to even the scores but didn't manage it. We deserved to win the game even though we weren't at our best. Dave Carpenter had a good game and his half time talk seemed to inspire the team. Final score 13-11w
 
Cheers
Fletch