Greenock kicked off; Adian Stott caught the ball and threw a long pass to Ross Rafferty. Rafferty side stepped 2 opponents before going down the wing to score in the corner. At this point the EK boys switched off to give away a soft try in the corner from the restart; this was Greenock’s first and last real scoring chance.

EK went right up the park and scored. It started with Robbie McCallum making a break from the base of a maul. McCallum slipped the ball to Ian Young who drove on, before pop passing to Mark Donachie who broke 2 tackles, before passing to Ross “Beans” Hynde who scored in the corner.
The East Kilbride forwards took charge and camped on the Greenock 22 for 10 minutes before Ian Young dived over from 2 metres to score.

From the restart, EK forwards moved the ball down to Greenock’s 5 metre line. The ball was passed to Steven Thompson on the blind side who evaded 2 defenders to score.

EK won a Greenock lineout on 5 metres from the Greenock line. Roddy Beaton caught the ball and switched the play to the blind side. Beans caught the ball at speed and crashed over the line with 3 defenders hanging on to him.

A Greenock attack was stopped by a big hit from Mark Donachie, who then picked up the loose ball and passed to Steven Thompson who showed great pace to go round 2 defenders and score between the posts.

The next try was a classic involving forwards and backs. The forwards stopped a Greenock forwards rush and stole the ball. The ball went out the back to Ross Rafferty, who showed great speed to cruise past his opposite number, and then dummy the fullback before scoring.

The next score came from a ruck after the EK forwards were stopped 5 metres short of the line. With the Greenock defence expecting another EK forwards move, the ball was moved wide. A missed pass gave Steven Thompson the space to go round his opposite number and score.

From the kick off, Beans caught the ball deep inside his own 22 area. To everyone’s amazement (bar his own), he went up the line breaking two tackles to score, a run of over 70 metres.

Greenock did not learn and kicked the ball to Beans in his own 22; Beans took up the challenge and ran the ball in to score his fourth try.

The last try of the match came from a kick and chase which Roddy Beaton won to score in the corner.

Beans and Ross Rafferty got 2 conversions each.

Man of the match was Ross “Beans” Hynde for his 4 tries, although this was a good team effort.

Next week, EK host Uddingston, currently sitting second, 2 points behind EK in the table, having played one extra game.

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