Chinnor (H) – 19/04/2025

38Doncaster Knights

14Chinnor

2:30 pm · April 19, 2025
league

Donny Knights lit up Castle Park as they triumphed to their seventh consecutive win by defeating Chinnor 38-14. 

It was a slow start from both sides as the first points weren’t scored until the seventeenth minute, with neither team allowing the other to break through their defence.

Doncaster’s forwards pack won a scrum penalty and Alex Dolly slotted it to eventually give the Knights a three point lead, 3-0. 

The Knights soon found their try scoring form as Morgan Strong broke through the defence and powered towards the line. A little bit of footwork allowed him to go the full length, scoring from about 40m out. Dolly added the extras 10-0.

Doncaster remained the more disciplined side and a penalty allowed Russell Bennett to kick us up to the 5m line. The set piece ran smoothy and Archie Smeaton found his way over the line from the back of the maul. Dolly converted again, 17-0.

The Knights showed brilliant maul defence to hold Chinnor out at the line, but the visitors worked hard to get back up to the line and eventually their forwards drove the ball under the posts. Conversion added.

Half time score 17-7.

Aidan Cross kicked off the second half scoring almost instantly as a superb intercept opened the space for him to carry all the way. Dolly extended the lead, 24-7.

Chinnor were penalised for being offside and Bennett placed another great kick to touch, bringing us up to the 5m line. The backs then joined the rolling maul to help the final push over the line and Rokoduguni grounded the ball. Dolly with a brilliant kick from out wide, added two more 31-7. 

The visitors had a lot of possession across the next five minutes but the Knights put in a huge defensive set with two notable big tackles coming from both Conor Davidson and Connor Edwards. 

The Knights worked their way into the 22 and a free kick at the line out meant Donny could move the ball quickly. Ben Chapman took off for the line swerving between Chinnor’s defence before diving over the line. Bennett added the extra two, 38-7. 

Chinnor’s scrum half snatched one more try for the visiting team as he broke away from the driving maul to find a gap. They added the extras to make the full time score 38-14. 

Team Lineups

Conor Davidson 1 Tumy Onasanya

George Roberts 2 Alun Walker

Logovi'i Mulipola 3 Rob Hardwick

Ben Murphy (C) 4 Jonny Green

Jasper McGuire 5 George Shaw

Archie Smeaton 6 Harry Dugmore

Rhys Tait 7 Max Clementson

Morgan Strong 8 Scott Hall

Alex Dolly 9 Callum Pascoe

Russell Bennett 10 Connor Slevin

Aidan Cross 11 Kieran Goss

Connor Edwards 12 James Bourton

Zach Kerr 13 Thomas Watson

Semesa Rokoduguni 14 Eparama Rokodrava

Telusa Veainu 15 Nick Smith

Replacements

Fred Davies 16 Chris Moore

Andrew Turner 17 Keston Lines

Lewis Thiede 18 Cameron Doak

Ben Chapman 19 Alfie North

Will Parry 20 William Ryan

Ollie Fox 21 Luke Carter

Morgan Bunting 22 Grant Hughes

Obi Ene 23 Cameron Rafferty

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