National 3 South West

CHINNOR recovered from a sluggish start to defeat Amersham & Chiltern 39-16 at Kingsey Road and make it nine wins from nine.

Chiltern led 16-0 by the half-hour mark and a major upset looked on the cards, but Chinnor came on strong after that.

Chiltern moved it wide for wing Jerry Rice to score inside a minute, centre Ross Budgen converting.

The visitors kept up their pressure and three Bugden penalties increased the lead.

On 32 minutes, a long driving maul saw No 8 Liam Gilbert bag Chinnor’s first try, fly half James Cathcart converting.

With the wind behind them, Chinnor began the second half well and Rice was sin-binned for lying on the ball inches out from his own line.

Chinnor went for another driven line-out, which yielded Gilbert’s second try.

Cathcart landed a penalty from halfway before centre Matt Goode collected a wayward pass to run in try No 3, Cathcart converting.

A second Cathcart penalty put the hosts 25-16 ahead, then replacement Ken Prinsloo’s first touch helped set up flanker Nick Harrison’s try.

Cathcart’s conversion made it 32-16 and wing Henry Colver completed the turn around, slicing through the defence for a try that Cathcart again converted.

Oxford Harlequins’ relegation fears deepened with a 65-10 mauling at Weston-super-Mare.

Quins had to play the last 14 minutes with 14 men due to injuries, but they already trailed 53-10.

Fly half Alex Stevenson put the visitors ahead with a seventh-minute penalty.

Weston centre Andy Evans scored a try on 11 minutes, fly half Mal Roberts converting and adding a penalty.

It was 17-3 after Roberts converted a try from right wing Paul Sprague.

Quins had centre Martin Nutt yellow-carded and his absence saw the score moved on to 29-3, thanks to two tries from full back Chris Young, Roberts converting the latter.

Evans was sin-binned for Weston and Quins drove lock Will Clayton over, Stevenson converting.

No 8 Gavin Simpson drove over just before half-time, Roberts converting.

Sprague crossed twice more, either side of a try from left wing Matt Watkins, Roberts converting one.

An injury to replacement Alasdair Maspero saw Quins drop to 14 men before centre George Wright and hooker Dave Burge completed Weston’s romp, Roberts converting the latter.