Coventry Welsh 10 KC 54
KC looked threatening from the off, and opened the scoring when Ryan Tiene dribbled a Coventry Welsh knock-on and the ball bounced to the chasing Ted Morgan for the first try converted by Tom Dalton. KC increased their lead when Ted Morgan scored his second try after Chris Pinner made a break and passed, Tom Dalton again successful with the conversion.
Coventry Welsh came back with their own pressure near the KC 22 and when KC gained possession Tom Dalton showed his pace to sprint 60 metres to score between the posts and make the conversion. Almost from the kick-off the ball went to Ryan Tiene whose gallop out-paced the opposition, Dalton adding a good conversion from wide out.
Just before half-time Coventry Welsh worked their way into the KC 22 and when KC spurned opportunities to make the ball safe, were able to regain possession and score an unconverted try.
The second half opened with KC securing a scrappy ball in their half which was passed to Ryan Tiene who ran through the first tackler and then outpaced the rest of the defence to score a 60 metre try, converted by Dalton. KC were now looking in control, their forwards putting pressure on in the opposition 22 and after several incursions were stopped by good defence eventually Aaron Crawley got over to score, again Dalton converting.
We saw good tacking from Jesse Burgess, Nathan Ward and Blue Archer. Tom Kerrigan and hooker John Barratt working well together to secure their line-outs. Whilst it was a good team effort, stand out performances came from KC replacements, Jack Shepherd at prop and Alfie Myers looking very confident at scrum-half.
As often happens when they have a big lead KC relaxed which gave Coventry Welsh the opportunity to score their second try. Winning the ball from a line-out on their 22 KC made ground passed the ball to Ryan Tiene. Several defenders were beaten and Ryan with his trade mark gallop crossed the line near the touch line and cleverly waited to touch down between the posts, Tom Dalton was on target for his seventh successful conversion.
Ryan Tiene got himself onto the score sheet again after he dribbled into the corner and with a sliding scoop somehow managed to put downward pressure on the ball to gain his fourth try.
KC ran out winners at 10-54 with a very good team effort, backs and forwards can be very pleased with their efforts.

Bob Davies