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Old Gs take Kent Vase title

Old Gravesendians celebrate winning the Kent Vase
Old Gravesendians celebrate winning the Kent Vase

Old Gravesendians successfully defended their Kent Vase title beating Medway 20-12 in the final at Canterbury.

Kent 1 runners-up Gravesendians were favourites to defeat Kent 2 champions Medway, and they opened the scoring when Marcus D’Cunha touched down.

Minutes later Matt Holdstock scored under the posts, and Richard Oxtoby converted for 12-0.

Medway fought back when David Soledolu broke to score, with Dafydd Ruffell converting to make the half-time score 12-7.

Holdstock scored his second try after the break, followed by an Oxtoby penalty, before Medway pulled back to 20-12 with a try from Rob Ellis.

Tunbridge Wells clinched the Kent Plate following a 37-7 win over Beckenham.

The London 2 South sides had already met twice this season, with Wells winning both of those games and they made it a hat-trick of wins, after dominating the game at Canterbury’s Merton Lane ground.

James Gwinnett’s try gave Wells the lead but a converted effort from Julian Rogers put Beckenham 7-5 ahead.

It was the last time Beckenham had the lead and by the break Mike Doherty scored to put Wells 12-7 in the lead.

Further tries from Rob Harrison, Ryan Le Roux and a couple of penalty kicks from Charlie Harding put the game beyond Beckenham.

Craig Hulls scored a consolation try but the game was wrapped up by Wells with another converted try from their backs.

Sittingbourne were 13-9 winners over Park House in the Kent Salver.

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