No repeat for Orleans

Orleans Park, the closest school to Twickenham who enjoyed an excitingrun to the last 16 last season, are out already, beaten 17-5 at home by StIgnatius from Enfield, who produced a good defensive display and punished theopposition mistakes.

There was a real battle between St Benedict's, Ealing,and Latymer from Edmonton before Benedict's better defensive organisationand ability to turn pressure into points secured a 22-10 win.

Benedict'sscored four tries through Alex Sepahi, Jake Boehm, Nic Hallisey and AdamSmith.

Benedict's now visit Cardinal Vaughan, who won a tight game againstRickmansworth 11-0.

There was no score at half time and then Emmanuel Ovolaput over two penalties before lock Michael Barber broke through from 25yards out to score the only try.

Haberdashers racked up 12 tries againstBirchwood in a 68-0 thrashing with Robert Michaels showing his pace andstrength with a first half hat-trick while Colne from Brighlingsea had toomuch pace and slick handling for West Hatch in 48-12 win.

There werehat-tricks for Ashley Nice and Jamie Williams and two tries for MattFrancis.