Home comforts as Albion battle to key win

PLYMOUTH Albion got their season back on track with a hard-earned win over Caldy in their first home game of 2018.

Playing with a strong wind behind them Caldy raced into a 10-0 lead.

After scrum half Ben Jones kicked a penalty, centre Delwyn Jones sliced through the home defence for a try near the uprights.

Jones added the simple conversion before Plymouth opened their account with a catch and drive try claimed by flanker Sam Daly.

Fly-half Dan Mugford converted before setting up Plymouth’s second try.

Centre Harvey Skinner latched onto a kick through by Mugford to score under the posts with the fly-half converting.

Caldy then reduced the deficit to a single point when Jones slotted through a penalty after Plymouth were penalised for an illegal tackle.

Plymouth had the luxury of changing shirts at half-time and stretched their lead to two scores through more good work from Mugford.

After cutting through the Caldy defence, Mugford put prop Dan Pullinger over with a well-timed inside pass.

Mugford converted before Plymouth went in search a bonus-point try.

Good defence from Caldy kept them at bay though and the visitors got a welldeserved losing bonus-point when Jones kicked a stoppage time penalty.