Henley Hawks made it an astonishing 13 wins in a row as they hammered hosts Shelford side 59-21 on Saturday.

With such a record, Hawks would have expected to be well clear in the National 2 South title race.

But they cannot shake off Dorking in second place as the promoted Surrrey club had a very creditable win at Redruth 38-12 , earning a bonus point.

So Hawks are still only five points clear at the top.

It was a great day for lock Oskar Hirskyj-Douglas, who marked his 20th birthday with a hat-trick of first-half tries.

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Hawks took command from the start with half-backs, James Comben and Tom Parker, playing instead of the injured scrum half Connor Murphy, making the most of the forwards’ dominance.

After two minutes centre George Eastwell broke though in the centre to touch down, with Comben landing the first of his seven converskions from nine attempts, Hirskyj-Douglas scored their second try from a forward drive.

Left wing Jake Randall gave a beautifully-timed pass inside to the advancing Hawks full back Will Jones who scored near the posts to make the score 21-0.

This was doubled to 42-0 with two Hirskyj-Douglas tries and a touch down by No 8 Robbie Stapley.

The scrum dominance that Hawks had enjoyed disappeared after lock Darrell Ball was sent to the sinbin.

Hawks were turned over in three successive scrums and conceded a penalty try, converted by fly-half Steve Smith to make it 42-7 at the break.

Smith then converted Andrew Scott’s try to make it 42-14.

The Hawks began to show their authority in driving mauls and tries by Robbie Stapley and Matt Payne, the latter converted by Comben stret-ched their lead to 54-14 on the hour.

Shelford scored their third try through No 8 Rupert Ransom, Smith adding his third conversion.

Hawks had the final say, when skipper Dave Clements tidied up the scoring with an unconverted try in th last minute.

Chinnor’s run of close results continued, but this time they were beaten 25-20 at Bishops Stortford.

The visitors led 13-10 at the break with a try from lock Toby Salmon plus two penalties and a conversion from fly-half Ed Keohane.

Stortford dominated after the break with a brace of tries to add to their first-half penalty try to lead 25-13.

Chinnor hit back with a late try from winger George Blewitt, converted by Keohane, to put pressure on their hosts.

But they were unable to score again.

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