National 3 South West

A depleted Oxford Harlequins lost 40-10 at promotion-chasing Bournemouth.

Late withdrawals of centre Martin Nutt (injury) and prop Simon Chadbone (illness) meant Quins gave a debut to young wing Alex Ashby and flanker Tim Knapp took over the captaincy from Chadbone.

Added to this, lock Alan Purchase’s suffered an ankle injury just as Quins had pulled it back to 18-7.

Quins No 8 Jason Welburn was sin-binned after three minutes, but it took Bournemouth until 19 minutes to score a through fly half Dan Pollard.

Pollard converted a soft try from wing Sam Yarwood and added penalties before Quins hooker James Clarke was yellow-carded.

After the break, half backs Anthony Cope and Jeff Stewart and centre Xavier Andre combined to set Chris Tuatara on a perfect line to the posts. Fly half Stewart converted and added a penalty, while Andre and Tuatara went close.

Breakway tries from Yarwood and centre Bob Bruce, Pollard converting the first, made it 30-0 just after the hour mark.

No 8 Chris Hughes ran in try No 5 before flanker Thomas Ford was yellow-carded.

Yarwood completed his hat-trick on the final play.