Second half blitz too good for weak Blaydon

IN front of their largest crowd of the season, inform Plymouth Albion made it nine wins on the bounce with a seven-try victory over relegation threatened Blaydon.

It was a game of two halves with Blaydon restricting Plymouth to a single score in the first period, while after the break a rampant Plymouth ran in six further tries to run out comfortable winners.

Plymouth started the game brightly but all their early efforts were matched by a very solid Blaydon defence.

Plymouth eventually broke the deadlock in the 24th minute when skipper Herbie Stupple crossed in the corner following a close range lineout. Scrum-half Matt Shepherd was unable to slot the difficult conversion.

Plymouth continued to test the Blaydon defence but went into the interval with a five-point advantage.

Plymouth added more pace to their game after the interval and ran in tries at regular intervals.

Lock Ed Holmes with a fine individual try opened the second-half scoring before winger Matt Crosscombe got the first of his two scores.

Lock Nile Dacres got the bonus-point try and he was followed over the whitewash by centre Harvey Skinner.

Shepherd, who kicked five conversions, concluded the scoring with his side’s final try in stoppage time.