Newmarket 5 – 15 Huntingdon

The match was no more than 20 seconds old when the referee called an immediate halt while several Huntingdon players removed their leggings to meet the new RFU regulations. 15 seconds later Huntingdon took the lead as a short line-out throw was taken and the try scored almost unchallenged.

Despite some good runs by Jack Watson and strong tackling by Gwilym Davies and Joe Metts, Newmarket were really struggling and quickly succumbed to two further unconverted Huntingdon tries to go 15-0 down.

It looked as if Newmarket were facing a heavy defeat but, in fact they managed to see out the remainder of the half without conceding any further points. In the second half they began to impose themselves on the game with strong running and passing between Chris Le, Aiden Cooper, Dan Bristow and Ben Jeacock. The pressure told and Cooper crashed over from a quick penalty 5 metres out from the line.

Despite maintaining the pressure for much of the half, with particularly probing runs from man of the match, Iain Moffat, playing at inside centre rather than his usual wing position, Newmarket couldn't get over the try line again.

The match finished with no further scores on either side.