Final scoreline harsh on Yarnbury (From Wharfedale Observer)

Final scoreline harsh on Yarnbury

9:04am Monday 16th November 2009

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Yarnbury 13 Dinnington 28

Yarnbury were without established and in-form second row Ian Maycock and back row Dave Moss, who were both injured the previous week, but it gave them a great chance to bring in Yorkshire junior second row Adam Malthouse for his senior debut and welcome back the reliable James Daffern in the back row.

The Yarnbury pack have punched above their weight all season and put pressure on their South Yorkshire opponents for 20 minutes but with very little reward.

They were guilty of running at the Dinn-ington defenders rather than looking for the gaps and only had one of two penalties converted by full back John Moore after 15 minutes.

Dinnington did well to repel the Yarnbury forwards on a number of occasions in their own 20-metre area when tries looked likely, with good runs stopped by No 8 Ian Moule and prop Adam Pike.

The stand-out performance of the half was Malthouse, who secured consistent good ball at the line-out and dropped on several loose balls, securing it for home attacks.

Good forward possession was fed to Jason Avieson, who beat the left flank of defenders but delayed too long with his inside pass to unmarked winger Simon Threlfall, and the try went begging.

Dinnington withstood the Yarnbury pressure well with good defense and applied the killer blow on a rare excursion into the Yarn-bury half, with fly half Darren Wilkinson jinking over near the posts and full back Danny Cannadine converting.

Yarnbury, who had to make changes for the second half, replacing Malthouse through injury with Moule moving up and Stephen Riley coming into the back row, immediately hit back via two excellent runs by the confident Chris Flowers on the left wing.

The first stopped just short of the try-line but the second, cutting in from the wing and beating four defenders with pace, led to a try, Moore adding the extras to give Yarn-bury the lead.

At this juncture, with the vast majority of possession, it seemed that Yarnbury would kick on to a deserved victory but the opposite happened with Dinnington using the ball well in their backs and full back Cannadine finding space to exploit at pace with tries from winger Lawrence Ross, after spreading the play well, and back row Russ Winter, both converted by Cannadine.

Try as they would, Yarnbury were blunted by the South Yorkshire defence and Dinning-ton scored a sucker punch at the death when veteran Pilkington went over near the posts, the try being converted to give an unfair slant on a competitive match.

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