A-team: Earth Titans 26-24 Stourbridge

A-TEAM IN ACTION
By Stefan
February 14 2006

TRIES from Gareth Morley and Alex Drage - both bagging a brace - secured a late 26-24 victory against Stourbridge.

Stourbridge's forwards fought like tigers at Clifton Lane to make Titans' young guns work extremely hard for their win.

For several periods of an excellent contest, Stourbridge were on top - especially in the first half - and a spectacular turn around, bearing in mind their 64-0 drubbing earlier in the season, looked on the cards.

The home side fielding a young pack found themselves 24-12 down at the break. However, slowly the game turned Roth's way. Digging deep they turned the game around and closed out the second half 14-0.

"Obviously, Stourbridge sent a much stronger side this time and we were weaker, but it was a good performance", said coach Craig West.

"The lads showed great spirit against a bigger and older pack to produce a great result"

Two tries each for wingman Morley and srumhalf Drage - Morley raising his season's A-team tally to nine - together with three conversions by Tom Outram were enough to seal the victory.

Earth Titans:
Charlie Spon-Smith; Gareth Morley (Paul Kingston), Duncan Richardson, Tom Outram (Will Kirtley), Dave Bolton; Tom Bullough (Tom Outram), Alex Drage; Tom Dickinson, Jonny Larby (Gareth Mist), George Glen, Andrew Enevolvsen (Hugo Mitchell-Heggs), Andrew Robinson (Will Crossley), Nick Barrett, Mick Bailey (Tristan Laga), Richard Sawyer.

Titans Scorers:
Gareth Morley (2T), Alex Drage (2T), Tom Outram (3C).