1st XV
Matches
Sat 04 Jan 2020  ·  North One East
Scarborough
24
27
Kendal R.U.F.C.
1st XV
Tries: L Kincart, N Carlton (2), G WeightmanConversions: G Weightman (2)Penalties: G Weightman
Another Tight Finish - but it's a WIN !!!

Another Tight Finish - but it's a WIN !!!

Mark Hodgkiss4 Jan 2020 - 19:12
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After losing out late, a number of times this season, this time it was the right result (from our perspective !)

After a three week Christmas break the First XV returned to action with an away trip to Scarborough. After a good opening section to the season, Scarborough had lost their last four games before Christmas, due to a number of injuries, but several players were returning. Kendal had lost their last three games before Christmas, but could have won them all.

The big selection news was the return of Matty Houghton from a spell at Wharfdale, and whilst he had not played a lot of rugby recently, the timing was good with Ben Dixon away, and Alistair Thompson working in New Zealand again. Other changes from the team in the last game at Cleckheaton saw Chris Park come in at fullback for Jack Blakeney-Edwards who was away, whilst Dan Shorrock came in for Dini Noyo on the wing, and Logan Flett for Tom Moulton in the front row. Lewis Kincart got a start at scrum half, with Jordan Johnson moving to the bench.

Kendal got off to a flying start, and had the lead after just three minutes. With the referee signalling a penalty, Glen Weightman put the ball wide, and Matty Houghton made an immediate impact breaking the Scarborough defence to set up a three to one overlap, passing to Lewis Kincart for the try, which Glen Weightman converted. 0v7

It soon got even better. Steve Nelson broke the defence on the left and got the ball away to Lewis Kincart who had a good run up the left wing, before passing to Nick Carlton in support for the try.

Kendal continued to play well, but the Scarborough defence tighten up, and were up very quickly, turning the ball over on several occasions. Their powerful centres and back row were always looking to make ground,

Scarborough seemed to have the upper hand in the scrum, but the referee clearly decided due to illegal means, penalising them several times on Kendal put in, much to the disgust of their support.

After a quarter of an hour Scarborough opened their scoring. A long kick was put down the right touchline to the Kendal line, and taking no risk Nick Carlton put the ball dead to give Scarborough the scrum. From the scrum the ball was quickly moved into mid-field, where centre Henry Hocking, one of the players returning from injury, went through a gap to score, and then converted his own try. 7v12.

Scarborough were starting to get the upper hand and drew the scores level after twenty minutes with a drive from a lineout. 12v12.

Five minutes later Kendal were back in front. Nick Carlton broke the defence in mid-field and with no one in support put a kick ahead. Scarborough centre Billy Parker seemed to have the kick covered, outpacing Carlton to the ball but Carlton was rewarded for following up, as he charged down Parker’s attempted clearance kick, then benefitted from Scarborough’s very large in goal area to follow the ball and touch down, before it went dead. Glen Weightman could not add the conversion. 12v17

As the half came to an end Scarborough drew level again. Centre Billy Parker was stopped on the line, but managed to get the ball away to Henry Hocking for his second try. Crucially Glen Weightman, Lewis Kincart and Dan Shorrock, charging of the conversion, put Hocking off, and he missed.

The scoring was not finished as Glen Weightman’s restart kick was knocked on by a Scarborough forward, and the ball was picked up by a player in front of him, to be penalised for offside. This was the fourth penalty of this kind in the game, as both teams had done the same thing at lineout, whilst Kendal had earlier conceded one from a charged down kick. Glen Weightman made no mistake with the kick to give his team a slender half time lead, and three points that were to prove pivotal in the final result.

Scarborough had the better of the early exchanges in the second half, and their solid defence gave Kendal few chances to escape their half.

Kendal did have some chances, with a good break by Lewis Kincart and Dan Shorrock down the right wing, being ended by a high tackle, only for Kendal to lose the ball at the resulting lineout.

After a quarter of an hour Kendal made a triple substitution with Jordan Johnson, Jack Lashley and Joe Lashey coming on for Lewis Kincart, Logan Flett and Steve Nelson.

This did not have the effect the coaches had hoped for, as Scarborough disrupted the Kendal scrum and the ball was turned over, then from their own scrum Scarborough set up fullback Tom Harrison to go through for a try, which Henry Hocking converted 24v20.

There was a worry for Kendal when the game was stopped for an injury to Danny Barker. He hobbled off, but as he left the field it was clear the injury was not as bad as first feared, and he was later able to return. Lewis Kincart came on in his place, going to the wing, with Nick Carlton going into the centre.

With fifteen minutes to play, with Kendal in possession the referee stopped play, but it was Jack Lashley he called aside, and yellow carded, for blocking a Scarborough player.

Scarborough continued to attack, but could find no way through, and it was seven minutes into Lashley’s period on the sidelines before a scrum meant Dan Greenwood had to be sacrificed to allow Lorgan Flett to return in the front row.

Scarborough continued to dominate, but could not get the score to make the result safe.

As the game entered injury time, Glen Weightman put a long kick into the Scarborough twenty two but Scarborough seemed to have it well covered. The referee had however clearly spotted the Scarborough right wing either put in a late tackle, or obstruct a Kendal player, and gave him a lecture, but unlike Lashley there was no follow up card.

The kick was put to touch, the lineout won but Kendal could not make progress.

When a second penalty came it was run quickly, which initially seemed a mistake, but Glen Weightman used the confusion to find a gap in the previously watertight Scarborough defence to weave through to score, then added the conversion.

Despite being two minutes into injury time, there was still plenty of time to play, after a number of injury stoppages.

Rather than keep the ball tight, Kendal kept the ball moving, possibly realising their opponents had the upperhand in power in the forwards, and whilst it initially worked, taking play out of the Kendal half, it finally backfired as a penalty was conceded.

There was more drama as Jack Lashley thought a ball was out and came through to be penalised by the referee, and clearly spoke out, and seemed lucky to escape a second yellow card.

Kendal weathered the storm and when Scarborough conceded a penalty, Glen Weightman was able to put the ball dead to ended the game.

A good away win, against a very good side, despite them being under full strength, and a reward for keeping going when seeming to be second favourites for the game.

The value of the late try which took Kendal from a losing bonus point to full points, became clear with news that next weekend’s opponents Driffield had been held to a draw at home by Durham City which sees them move out of the bottom three, at the expense of Percy Park.

Is it a co-incidence that the teams at the bottom, are those with the greatest travel, although we seemed to be doing well on the road. Next week it is time to turn that away form into a home win against the team currently in second place in the league, who will be keen to make amends for slipping up against weaker opposition this weekend.

Your Kentdale Kendal Man of the Match : Nick Carlton
Two tries and a number of important tackles, saw Nick just beat Danny Barker, who was just ahead of Glen Weightman, in a game where votes were spread across nine players.

The tries saw Nick consolidate his position at the top of the try scoring chart on seven, with Glen’s try bringing him even in second place with Rory Blakeney Edwards and Greg Wrathall on four, with Chris Evans, Dini Noyo and Jordan Johnson just behind on three. The backs lead the forwards 24v14 tries

ActionTeamNoNameTime
TryKendal9Lewis Kincart305
ConKendal10Glen Weightman407
TryKendal11Nick Carlton6012
TryScarborough13Henry Hocking16512
ConScarborough13Henry Hocking17712
TryScarborough?211212
TryKendal11Nick Carlton281217
TryScarborough13Henry Hocking391717
PenKendal10Glen Weightman401720
= = = = = = = = =HALF TIME401720
sub-onKendal16Jack Lashley541720
sub-offKendal3Logan Flett541720
sub-onKendal17Joe Lashley541720
sub-offKendal6Steven Nekson541720
sub-onKendal18Jordan Johnson541720
sub-offKendal9Lewis Kincart541720
TryScarborough15Tom Harrison552220
ConScarborough13Henry Hocking562420
sub-onKendal9Lewis Kincart582420
sub-offKendal12Danny Barker582420
Y/CKendal16Jack Lashley642420
sub-onKendal12Danny Barker692420
sub-offKendal14Dan Shorrock692420
sub-onKendal3Logan Flett712420
sub-offKendal8Dan Greenwood712420
sub-onKendal8Dan Greenwood?2420
sub-offKendal3Logan Flett?2420
TryKendal10Glen Weightman822425
ConKendal10Glen Weightman832427
= = = = = = = = =FULL TIME872427

ScarboroughKendal
Tom Harrison15Chris Park
Jack Anderson14Dan Shorrock
Henry Hocking13Mark Carruthers
Billy Parker12Danny Barker
Joe Marshall11Nick Carlton
Tom Radcliffe10Glen Weightman
Jordi Wakeham9Lewis Kincart
Matty Jones1Glenn Chesher
Stuart Smyth2Robbie Collinson
Joe Nellist3Logan Flett
Luke Brown 4Chris Evans
Phil Watson5Greg Wrathall
Will Leah6Steven Nelson
Chris Purdy7Matty Houghton
Aaron Wilson 8Dan Greenwood
Lewis Cowlishawsub (18)Jordon Johnson
Nino Cutinosub (16) Jack Lashley
Jordan Hollowaysub (17) Joe Lashley
Simon LazonbyRef

Match details

Match date

Sat 04 Jan 2020

Kickoff

14:15

Competition

North One East

League position

7
Scarborough
10
Kendal
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