Counties 2 Tribute Somerset: Taunton II 45-10 Wells

TAUNTON Warriors have extended their lead at the top of the Counties 2 Tribute Somerset division after a convincing win over Wells RFC at the weekend, writes Mike Amos.

Playing at home, Taunton kicked off into the Wells 22, they fielded the ball and ran at the Taunton defence, something they did for the next10 minutes, denying the Warriors of any possession at all. 

With all of this possession Wells were unable to get out of their own half, such was the tenacity of the Warriors defence. 

However from here, the Warriors were in control and their first try of the match brought up the 1000-points for the season so far with 5 games still to go.

On 22-minutes a half break by Ben Alvis who passed on to our President Gary Kingdom saw his use his power and sidestep to go over for the try giving the Warriors a 10-point lead.

Just 4-minutes later and the Warriors other centre Henry Webb was on hand to break through and sprint over for the try which when converted by Ben Alvis gave the Warriors a seventeen-point lead. 

Joe Elsworth was able to support and race away for the fourth and bonus point try soon after. 

Wells kicked off for the re-start and the ball did not make the 10-metre mark with everyone standing watching, Oli Schuster-Wood, the Warriors prop picked up and from within his own half raced through like an Exocet Missile, to completely out pace the defence to score under the posts.

With just three-minutes of the first half remaining Gary mesmerised the Wells defence to go in under the posts for the sixth try of the afternoon and to give the Warriors a 38-points to nil Halftime lead.

It took 15-minutes of the second half for the Warriors to get on the scoresheet again with Broadie Sheach, who must have covered most of the pitch supporting and tackling to be able to be on the end of a pass where he raced away under the Wells posts for a converted try. 

The game moved into a period of stalemate until with 15 minutes left Wells went in for a try followed very quickly with a second giving them 10-points.

Those ten-points against took the Warriors total points against for the season to 188, this is an average of 11-points per game which demonstrates that not only can the team entertain with tries they can also defend their own line. 

They now have two more home games in consecutive weeks.  Next week will be the challenge of Imperial from Bristol, followed by Huish Tigers on the16th of March.