Eccles Junior Colts 17 v Blackburn Junior Colts 7 February 14th 2010.
Both teams arrived with decent size squads for this return fixture.
Eccles kicked off and immediately went on the offensive. Sam Higgins opened the scoring with a great run through the Blackburn defence to touch down in the left hand corner. The conversion just missed 5-0. Chris Martinos stormed off on a bullocking run down the right wing using his customary hand off to gain 30 metres. He almost scored from a tap penalty but was held up just short of the line. Nick stole a ball from the opposition and sprinted down the right wing (his mum reckons it was at least 150 yards) to touch down unopposed to increase the lead to 10-0, Sam converted 12-0.
Blackburn hit back and put Eccles under pressure in their own 22, but Matt Neary broke clear to run 50 metres into the Blackburn half and passed to the supporting Chris Martinos to score the third try for Eccles. 17-0. It was good to see Dave Smith make his first appearance of the year when he replaced the injured Dom.
Half time 17-0.
Blackburn worked a great dummy which completely foxed the Eccles defence to score an excellent converted try 17-7
Danny Norris was having one of his best games of the season even covering for full back!! He started one smart Eccles move when he caught the ball at the front of the line out but the Blackburn defence held firm.
The best move of the second half came when Sam broke from stand off and passed to Matt who also made ground and passed the ball back to Sam who almost scored but was held up 5 metres short.
Eccles were playing well Matt S was once again prominent in loose and Alex was stealing line outs on the opposition ball.
It was good to see the ball get some air following on from last weeks encouraging performance against Kendal.
Blackburn tried the best to increase their score but Eccles kept them at bay, the final score 17-7
Well done both teams.