Exmouth 27 - 22 Cullompton

Saturday the Exmouth Quins entertained Cullompton second team in a league match, a game between the only two sides in the league to be unbeaten so far this season.

 
It was Exmouth that started the stronger of the two teams scoring a try within the first three minutes of the game, when Paul Flower finished off a powerful forward surge, Shaun Fayter added the extra two point from the conversion seven nil to Exmouth. Shaun added a further three points from a penalty shortly after. Then with eighteen minutes on the clock Terry Mears rounded off a good passage of play between the back and forwards to go over the Cullompton try line, twenty minutes played it was seventeen points to nil in Exmouth's favour and Cullompton did not look in the game.

Whether it was Exmouth taking their foot off the gas or Cullompton upping the level of rugby was difficult to tell, but Cullompton worked their way back into the game with two well worked tries making it seventeen points to ten. Then on the stroke of halftime Exmouth were awarded a penalty which Shaun Fayter dually converted making the halftime score twenty points to ten in Exmouth's favour.

 
The second half saw Cullompton come out the starting blocks a lot quicker than their Exmouth counter parts, which put Exmouth under a lot of pressure, so much so that after ten minutes of the second half Cullompton scored their third try with the conversion going wide it was twenty points to seventeen. If it was not for some tenacious defending by Exmouth, Cullompton could quite easily score another three tries, as it was they didn't and Exmouth got themselves back into the game slowly, when in the thirty sixth minute with a fine solo try from the back of a Cullompton lineout, flanker Adam Bond went over for a try under the posts, conversion converted by Shaun Fayter made the score twenty seven, seventeen.

Then with the very last play of the game Cullompton scored their fourth try, to finish the game with a score line of Exmouth twenty seven Cullompton twenty two. This was a narrow escape for Exmouth, if Cullompton had kicked their conversions. the Quins would have been looking at their first defeat of the season.