Hornets 2ndXV 12 Weston-super-Mare 36

Weston-super-Mare’s senior squad had their first taste of competitive action at The Nest on Saturday in a series of four twenty-minute sessions peppered with much needed water breaks.

There were two tries from Sam Hedges plus one each from Alex Payne, Huw Morgan, captain Dan Lomax and Euan Tremlett with three conversions from Ollie Walrond.

These appearances and scorers are not recorded in the season’s statistics.

“It was a very worthwhile run out,” said head coach Darren Crompton. “We had some new players in there in what was a mixed bag of a team but there was fantastic effort from everyone involved.

“Our pre-season training programme seems to have paid ff as the lads looked really fit. There were good tries but also some missed opportunities. For me the effort, the want and the will was there – and you can’t coach that – and we had it in abundance.

“The team for the opening two periods was strong, Hornets were on our line quite a few times, but the defence worked well with some big hits. There were no ‘white noise’ just good communications between the lads.”

Weston-super-Mare have two home pre-season games – Bridgwater & Albion on Saturday, August 20, 2022, kick-off 2pm and Gordano on Thursday, August 25, 2022, kick-off 7.30pm - before the start of the League season when Brixham will be the visitors on Saturday, September 3, 2022, kick-off 3pm.