Medway's Ladies 1ST XV hosted Pulborough Women, this Sunday 10th of November looking to extend there winning run to 4. Medway suffering with a number of injuries had to call on players to play in unfamiliar positions. In true Medway style players relished the task and stepped up to do their part.
Conditions were good and Medway were set to receive the kick for the start of the game. Pulborough currently bottom of the table were keen to show what they were capable of taking Medway quite by surprise and attacking the kick off with speed. They put Medway under pressure from the off and scoring an early try close to the posts topping it off with a conversion.
However this put fire into the Medway ladies and they came out fighting. Attacking the restart and putting their own pressure back on the opposition. Medway responded with a superbly worked try of their own, scoring out wide with some superbly worked passes.
This was the start of a fairly rampant first half with a combination of some hard hits and excellent counter rucking Medway put a further 4 tries finishing the first half 29 - 7 up.
The second half started well scoring early on, Medway dominated the scrum using it as a platform for attack. The handling and speed of support from Medway proving to much for the Pulborough defence. Pulborough did however dig deep and came back at Medway with some tough defence leading to some promising attacks however Medway stood strong and prevented Pulborough from mounting any sort of come back.
Medway finished off the game with 56-7 victory thanks to an excellent display of rugby, which is thanks to their hard work and effort in midweek training.
With a commanding display of hard hitting defence with dominant tackles, formidable counter rucking, not to mention attacking carries Abbie Marriott earnt Forward of the match.
Kate Young the ever present danger from 15 showed her class, speed and power breaking the line for 4 tries on the day. over shadowed only by some immense tackling.
K J Watts scoring for the first time in Medway colours and a debut appearance for Sam Spooner in the 1stxv rounded of a fantastic day at Preistfields.