BB&O Round-up

Alchester had captain Dan Kimber sent off as they sealed the Premier Division title with a tense 18-13 home victory over Drifters.

Although Alchester edged the early possession and territory, Drifters went ahead with a well-struck drop goal.

The hosts levelled with a penalty from Tom Barnes and he repeated the trick just before the break.

Kimber was red-carded for making contact with a Drifters player’s head with his boot in a ruck.

Alchester struck again on 42 minutes, centre Matt Flegg scoring and Barnes converting.

Drifters immediately replied with a penalty, but No 8 Joe McEneaney fed full back Simon Reid to race in.

A converted try put Drifters right back in it, but Alchester held on in ten minutes of stoppage time.

Bicester prop Tom Horwood was red-carded in a 38-22 home defeat to Swindon College.

Horwood was sent off for fighting, having earlier been yellow-carded for stamping.

Wing Dave Aslett created Bicester’s opening try for fly half Jak Cluness, centre Dan Spencer converting.

Swindon’s Stuart Knight went over, before they had Liam Davis sin-binned.

Spencer set up and created try No 2 for Cluness.

Swindon led 19-14 at the break, thanks to tries from Mark Williams and Toby Haynes, Scott Buchanan converting both.

Bicester added a Spencer penalty and a late Aslett try, while Spencer was sin-binned.

Two tries from James Murray and another from Knight, plus two Buchanan conversions, sealed it.

Gosford All Blacks battled well in a 29-7 home defeat to promoted Slough.

Centre Jack Briggs was denied a try due to a forward pass, but scored from fly Alex Borthwick’s pass, wing Tim Ellis’s converting for 12-7.

But tries from hooker James Flisher (2), lock Matt Prince, prop Gary Conner and wing Ryan Baker, plus two conversions from fly half James O`Reilly gave Slough, who had Kevin Dunne yellow-carded, the spoils.

Paul Costello scored 24 points as Didcot drew 29-29 with Faringdon in Division 2 South, Greg Arthy grabbing their other try.

OTHER SCORERS

BB&O Premier A: Oxford Harlequins 2nd 57 (tries J Brodley 3, A Walsh 2, J Watkins, I Bradshaw, P Gregory, pen try; cons Walsh 6), Amersham & Chiltern 2nd 5; Witney 2nd 36 (tries L Collins 2, A Lambourne, T Matchett, R Haire; cons S Copperwheat 4; pen Copperwheat), Chinnor 3rd 16.

BB&O Division 1 North: Oxford Harlequins 3rd 59 (tries B Tailford 3, T James 2, A Edwards, M Stoddart, T Mardle, I McCubbin; cons Tailford 6, A Edwards), Amersham & Chiltern 3rd 5; Chesham 39, Bicester 2nd 5 (try J Behan).

BB&O Division 2 North: Bicester 3rd 10 (tries D Ahu-Gooch, A Heritage), Marlow 3rd 31.