Cornwall and Devon

Tavistock 63

Veor 5

TAVISTOCK kicked off with the elements in their favour and Charlie Furnival soon scored in the corner with Tavistock's first possession; Richard West added the extras to make it 7-0. The home team absorbed Veor's opening attacks with ease with Dan Oner and Josh O'Neil making solid tackles around the rucks.

Tavistock's West was able to control the game, sending kicks to the corners for wingers Will Glover and Furnival to chase; the home side also enjoy dominance in the set piece; Andrew Kaka, Oner and James Bruna were able to disrupt the lineout and Adrian Baker, Matt Martin and Lloyd James provided a strong platform in the scrums.

Tavistock's next score was created by Doug Lloyd, who drew three defenders towards him as he ran a splendid line and skilfully passed to Dan Luffman who outstripped the remaining cover to and touch down, 12-5.

The home side then suffered a loss in concentration. A few silly penalties allowed Veor to gain attacking field position and loose ball from a lineout was pounced on and a try was awarded.

However Tavistock responded forcing mistakes around the Veor 22 and two penalties from West increased the lead to 18-5.

Veor tried to spoil Tavistock's free flowing rugby and suck them into a fight.

As the half drew to a close lovely link play from Andrew Griffiths, playing in his 300th game for the first team, and Ewan Smith played the ball out to the centre partnership of Lloyd and Ross Batton — the pair combined to send Lloyd clear and he raced over from 35 metres. West converted, 25-5.

Another superb solo effort from Luffman extended the lead, 30-5. Tries were coming regularly now; West pushed the ball into the corner and the covering fullback took far too long allowing Furnival to make the tackle; Furnival turned the ball over and scoring in one movement to give him his second - 35-5. Luffman sealed his hat trick after great work from Mark Friend; West converted, 42-5. Another off the ball incident resulted in both teams having a player sent to the sin bin. This created more space and Smith combined well with George Rodgers for Smith to score; West converted, 49-5.

From the kick-off Tavistock collected the ball and scored a wonderful team try, the ball passed through various sets of hands. Good pace from the backs moved the play up field and the forwards cleared the rucks with vigour. As Tavistock worked their way to the line any number of players could have scored but Duncan Law was left with the task of falling over the line; West converted to make it 56-5.

The last try of the afternoon was from Batton; following great footwork and a clever dummy he had bamboozled the defence and had completed the scoring from inside his own half, 63-5.

Tavistock have now won the last 14 games in a row and have a week off before travelling to Totnes.