Woodlands feel the benefit

Amazing what a summer tour can do for you. Woodlands, from Coventry,travelled Down Under and are a stronger and better team for it.

Theyretained and recycled possession excellently against a gutsy St Thomas Moreteam from Nuneaton and reached the third round with a 38-6 win.

Their sixtries were shared between Jeff Gregson, Matt Mason, Tom Wood, ScottMasters, Lee Parry and Marc Lawson while Ryan Reid kicked four conversions.

Prince Henry's Evesham earned crack at Hereford Cathedral with a 50-0 winover Old Swinford, a scoreline which did not do OSH justice.

David Stevens,Mark Evans (2), Henry Webb, Ed Boers, Stefan Lusatta and Tom Drew score thePrince Henry tries and Daniel Antonelli converted five of them.

KingEdward's, Aston, shocked Bromsgrove by beating them on their home ground12-10 in a hard-fought game but now have another tough away game at RGSWorcester, 50-0 winners over Fairfax.