A dazzling display of open running rugby by a young and skilful Ross side proved far too much for an experienced Stourbridge outfit who were blown away by the pace and intensity of the visitors play.

The home side started positively, Stourbridge looked to bring their big forwards into the game, but some strong tackling from Fry, Casey and Ian Davies prevented the home side getting on the front foot, in contrast Ross looked to move the ball wide at every opportunity and throughout the contest they profited greatly from their positive intentions. The first score came after 15 minutes, Joe Deacher broke from the back of a scrum on half way and offloaded to Gavin Oates who looked as if he might outpace the cover defence, but was brought down five yards from the line. A quick ruck ball was secured and Joe crashed over to score. Chris Gage added the conversion and Ross were 7-0 ahead. Within 10 minutes Ross had added another two scores, first some quick hands in midfield from Pete Jarvis and PJ put winger Guy Pearson in space, he broke through two tackles before outpacing the cover defence to score a great try in the corner, to put Ross 12-0 ahead. Straight from the kick off Ross were on the attack, PJ chipped the ball ahead and again winger Guy Pearson outpaced the defence, as he was about to gather the ball to score, he was tackled without the ball and the referee had no option but to award a penalty try. Chris Gage converted and Ross went 19-0 ahead.

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