An emphatic start saw the ball quickly passed out to Captain Nate on left wing who charged through a weak defence to score under the posts for Josh to convert. Within minutes, a good carry by Isaac into a scrappy ruck at the halfway line, some slick backs moves and Nate was away again on the left with a carbon copy try, again Josh converted. Scrum-half Jack then delivered a clean ball from a dominant scrum down the back line via Oscar and James to free up Josh down the right wing to score and convert.
With a Grimsby scrum lacking experienced front row, the decision was taken to go to uncontested scrums for safety. This lifted Grimsby who pushed into the Kesteven half, but Kesteven defensive pressure won a scrum on our 5m, Josh cleared for James to carry clear of traffic, finding Stan at full pace on the right wing for converted try number 4.
Some solid ruck work from Charlie, Finn, Gabe and Finlay enabled a forwards move for Sean to breakthrough the centre for try number 5, unconverted.
Grimsby again pushed forwards capitalising on penalties and scored – 5-33 at half time.
Out of the blocks fast in the second half saw a Jackal steal by Finn, threaded neatly to Harry on the wing to score, with Nate converting.
After a further converted try from Josh with great support from Sean and Thomas, Nate broke through again, pinging it to Finn to score. Some textbook phase play then freed up Isaac to deliver our 9th try, and the game was stopped at 5-61 to Kesteven.