Scarborough 28 Yarnbury 12

YARNBURY'S injury crisis meant they had just three senior players in their squad for the trip to the East Coast.

It meant they were forced to field a youthful side and the youngsters certainly gave it their all.

It was typical of the visitors' season that they should lose centre Tom Fowler to a knee injury within the first five minutes.

Winger Ellis Gomersal went close with a determined run which was halted by full back Harry Domett as Yarnbury had the better of the early play.

Scarborough seemed susceptible to the high ball and could not get going with skipper Oliver Cashman leading his young side extremely well.

Yarnbury's early pressure was rewarded when Jarrod Huss kicked a penalty into the corner. The line-out was won and a fine driving maul resulted in a try for No 8 Jak Butler. Huss converted to establish a 7-0 lead.

Scarborough finally opened their account with a penalty by Tom Harrison but they were finding Yarnbury hard to break down.

Scarborough had a succession of five metre scrums near the Yarnbury line but the scrum stood firm on four occasions before clearing the danger.

It was a magnificent effort from the young pack with James Falgate and newcomer James Bennett impressing.

Scarborough finally broke the Yarnbury resistance when their pack came up with a pushover try to give their side a narrow lead.

When replacement Stuart Wilson was hurt in defensive duties, scrum half Nathan Benton went to full back position and captain Oliver Cashman reverted to his normal scrum half berth.

Young prop Dom Goldthorpe came on against the New Zealand giant Wesley Langkilde.

Yarnbury were living off scraps and defending for most of the second half and conceded two further tries to winger Graeme Jeffrey and prop Langkilde before stand off Huss found space on halfway to release winger Gomersall.

He crashed over in the corner taking the last defender with him as he touched down while airborne to give Yarnbury a second try and keep them in contention.

Penalties stretched Scarborough's margin of victory but Yarnbury denied them a bonus-point try.