CHINNOR stayed within touching distance of a top five finish in National 2 South as they edged struggling Canterbury 14-3.

Alfie To’oala and Robbie Martey went over in a low-scoring encounter.

In a rare foray into the Chinnor 22, Canterbury’s Tom Best kicked the visitors into a 3-0 lead.

Alex Wake-Smith was sent to the sinbin and Chinnor took full advantage with To’oala crashing over. Ed Keohane converted.

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Chinnor scored what turned out to be the last score of the game on 37 minutes.

Taking a pass on his own ten metre line, Jaryd Robinson skipped through five tackles and offloaded a back-of-thehand pass to Martey, who went over under the posts.

Henley Hawks earned a thrilling 34-34 draw at home to Bishops Stortford, but George Eastwell missed a last-gasp conversion with victory in sight.

However, with second-placed Dorking losing at Taunton Titans, Henley are now 15 points clear at the top of the table.

Stortford opened the scoring with a converted Nick Hankin try, but Henley replied through Matt Payne and Dave Manning - the latter converted by Eastwell.

Tom Whiteley scored a hat-trick of tries for the visitors, before Henley closed the gap to 26-22 thanks to Payne and Fred Pierrepoint.

Sam Winter extended Stortford’s lead and George Cullen kicked a penalty.

However, Hawks bounced back as a driving maul set up Robbie Stapley to touch down. Eastwell converted.

The hosts’ piled on the pressure and got their reward in the last play of the game.

Simon Perry went over, but Eastwell’s attempted conversion sailed wide.