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Tom leads the way for Clifton with hat-trick of tries

Wednesday, November 04, 2009, 07:00

Junior rugby round-up: Clifton Under-13s eased through to the Junior Combination Cup semi-finals with a 38-0 win at St Mary's.

Tom Scammell crossed for a hat-trick of tries and Sam Boyland scored a brace. Esher Pegrum also touched down and added three conversions.

Clifton Under-16s, who were without of seven of their county players, went out of the of the cup 22-10 to Hornets. Jack Holmwood and Ollie Levinstone scored Clifton's tries.

Winscombe are through after overcoming Thornbury in tricky conditions to register a 29-0 victory.

Wing Sam Rees scored three tries, all converted by Darren Atkins, who also landed a first-half penalty. Jack Hodson claimed Winscombe's other try.

In the plate competition, Cleve Under-13s crossed for six tries in a home win over Midsomer Norton.

Ross Jones bagged a brace, while Billy Abrahall, Jack Cainey and Alex Brown also scored tries. Tom Cox scored a try and kicked three conversions.

Old Redcliffians Under-16s were 52-10 winners in their Junior Combination Cup match against Whitehall.

The Old Reds tries came from Sam Lewis-Prosser (2) Paul Dury, George DeLong, Jack Arnold, Liam Phillips, Josh Woodman and Rich Warren, who also slotted six conversions. Whitehall never gave up and scored through James Watkins and Lewis Trott.

St Mary's Under-17s took on their equivalents from London Saracens and recorded a stunning 22-19 victory.

Wing Curtis Asante, who was outstanding for Saints, crossed the whitewash three times. Fellow wing Mike Cross got St Mary's other try, and centre Nathan Miller kicked a conversion.

Nailsea & Backwell Under-12s hosted both North Bristol and St Mary's in a round-robin fixture and came through both games without conceding a point. Michael Askew (2) Jordan Hayward (3) and James Horton notched tries and Sam Palmer kicked five conversions.

Dave Page was Nailsea's only try scorer at Under-14s level against a powerful St Bernadette's side.

Centre Fabien Markhtori (2) prop Lou Talbot, No 8 Richard Foley and fly-half Jamie Gazzard were try scorers for the Whitchurch club, while scrum-half Charlie Hacker kicked three conversions. Sam Hill was in great form for Bernadettes'

Meanwhile, in the Under-18s County Championship, Somerset defeated Gloucestershire 30-22.




Nailsea
Nailsea's economywas based on coal mining which began as early as the 16th century. By the late 1700s, the town had a large number of pits and was visited by the social reformer Hannah More who founded a Sunday school for the workers.
Nailsea's coal mines attracted John Robert Lucas, a glass manufacturer, in 1788 and the glass works he established eventually became the fourth largest of their kind in the United Kingdom. The works closed in 1873 but "Nailsea" glass is still sought after by collectors around the world.
The site of the glass works is covered by a supermarket car park lleaving it accessible for future archaeological digs. Remains of many of the old pits are still visible around Nailsea
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