Gloucester Premier League round-up

CHIPPING Sodbury finished their Gloucester Premier League season off not quite in the way they wished as a big game at the top of the table saw them thrashed 44-15.

If Sodbury had won, they would have taken third place from Hucclecote but, instead, it was their opponents who secured a five-point bonus point victory and left the home team licking their wounds.

Sodbury scored all their points in the first-half as Jon Cook grabbed two tries, one of them a tremendous effort from all of sixty metres, to give his side the edge.

Matt Cook added a third try for his side after a great build-up with six phases of play saw him power over from a metre.

None of the tries were converted and the match was in the balance as the second period got underway.

However, Sodbury did not have a sniff of the game after that and, for whatever reason, they were just flat and lacked tackling.

It was only the eighth defeat of the season for Chipping Sodbury but left them five points adrift of Hucclecote.

Frampton Cotterell ended a season which could have seen them in big trouble at the wrong end of the table with a cracking home win in their final match.

Frampton thrashed Gordon League, who are in a place above them, by a huge 66-14 and crept up the table to finish in ninth spot.

And North Bristol signed off from the Gloucester Premier League with a fine win on the road.

The bottom placed side recorded only their third win of the long old season at the wrong end of the table with a 26-18 win away at Cheltenham North.

However, they are sure to be among the favourites to bounce back straight away from Gloucester One next season.

Old Richians ran away with the Gloucester Premier League title, losing just two matches out of their 22 played, while St Mary’s Old Boys, who play out of Almondsbury, finished second with eighty points.

St Mary’s surprisingly lost at Barts Rugby in their final clash of the season, with Barts winning 25-17.