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Match report: Bridlington v Yarnbury RFC
Horsforth's Yarnbury RFC travelled to the reast coast looking to build on their previous week's win against Selby.
Bridlington 25
Yarnbury 18
Competition: Yorkshire 1 League
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Yarnbury were in confident mood after last weeks win at home to Selby and seemed to be 'Rugby Blogs' favourites to win this encounter.
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Yarnbury had the same team as last wek with the exception of John Moore returning at full back for the unavailable Andy Greaves new signing from Morley and Chris Flowers taking over from Simon Threlfall on the left wing for the same reason.
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Yarnbury got off to a terrible slow start with unenforced errors which gave the attacking onus to the home side who went twelve points up in the first 10 minutes.
Firstly captain and stand off Bradley Hall came in on the angle for a touch down under the post and conversion from young scrum half Steve Mellonby who then proceeded to rub in the advantage with a 20 metre dash to the line beating numerous Yarnbury defenders on the way to the line.So Yarnbury had a mountain to climb reclaiming the initiative.
In fairness to the Horsforth side they took the game to Bridlington dominating the lines through Ian Maycock and Dave Hunter in the second row.So much so that Bridlington stopped contesting at one stage and moved backwards in unison to gain a clever penalty for Yarnbury forming the ruck without opposition.
Unfortunately the kicking from hand was poor making Yarnbury work too hard to set up an attacking platform the only breaks coming down the left putting winger Chris Flowers away but he just got hauled down short of the line.
Yarnbury kept pressing and a typical astute crossfield kick from stand off Ian Bartlett in Rugby League style avoided Bridlington wingman Andrew Burrows and was taken by Chris Flowers who had to pivot before scampering in near the corner to get Yarnbury on the scoreboard.
Inside centre steven Riley picked himself up after another solid tackling stint in the centre of the park to just fail with a touchline conversion.
Yarnbury then proceeded to give away penalties to go in at half time 18-5 down.
The second half was really a tale of Yarnbury pressure without reward although the forwards were holding the stronger Bridlington pack in the scrums and the front row working well in the tight to allow captain Al Bowden to even take three balls against the head from the Bridlington put in but in the main hard running centre Jason Avieson was well tackled by at least two defenders every time he looked to make a break and Chris Flowers after quick hands put him away was hauled down short of the line after a good run only for Yarnbury to fall for a sucker punch in a rare Bridlington arrival at the Yarnbury line for another score from Steve Mellonby converted by Bradley Hall.In fairness to the home side they took much ball away from the opposition tacklers on the ground and defended well and were well pleased at the end of the match to get the points.
More work for Yarnbury Coach Bob Hood to do before entertaining Skipton next week at Horsforth.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012
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