Biggleswade 32 - 7 Newmarket

After last week's impressive 15 point win against Peterborough, Newmarket were brought down to earth this week by a very competitive Biggleswade team and their own under par performance.

From the start of the first match between these teams for five years, the Bigglewade backs ran the show and it was only last ditch defence that held them at bay until ten minutes into the game when they scored left of the posts.

Nothing was working for Newmarket as passes failed to go to hand, tackle after tackle was missed and lineouts were lost. However, they saw a glimmer of hope when they finally got close to the Biggleswade line, due to good work by Anton Phillips, and Dan Bristow took the recycled ball to crash over. Joe Stafford converted the try for the away side to take a two point lead.

He really has scored

Unfortunately that was the last serious threat that Newmarket posed. As the game progressed Biggleswade also dominated the scrums – normally a Newmarket strength - and judicious kicking kept their opponents on the back foot. For most of the second half Newmarket simply couldn't get out of their own half as they faced wave after wave of attacks.

Phillips and Ben Jeacock showed how tackles should be made but even when Newmarket got temporarily on the front foot they found themselves on the wrong end of a number of close refereeing decisions. Biggleswade hardly made a handling error and their strong running allowed them to put a further five tries on the board for a well-deserved win.