Serious injury halts game

Title chasing Midlands side Towcestrians hopes of promotion to national three were put on hold after referee Mr George Richardson abandoned the Trowbridge fixture due to a serious injury to Trowbridge youngster Gareth Davis, Trowbridge kicked off into a strong breeze and Tow’s attacked knowing that nothing short of a bonus point win would be good enough in their quest for promotion, winger Matt Yuill set the pace with an unconverted try after ten minutes, Trowbridge responded with a successful penalty from Tom Weaver (5-3) Towcestrians came back with three scores from their strong pack one from a set scrum on the Trowbridge line and the next two from catch and drive lineouts, with their bonus point secure the home side started to throw the ball around until centre Alex Chalcraft broke through the Trowbridge defence from thirty metres to score a converted try under the posts only for Towcestrians prop Sam Sturley to force his way over the Trowbridge line for his second score of the game to end the first half thirty six = three (36-3). Tries followed after the restart another from Chalcraft, then scores from Scott Browne, Matt Yuill, Ben Skelton, James Falvey kicking five conversions, but the rugby soon became secondary with Gareth Davis suffering a horrific leg injury when trapped in a ruck, a long delay followed waiting for the air ambulance and with a number of players on both sides clearly in shock the referee took the decision to stop the game after 64 minutes with the score at sixty points – three (60-3).