Regional Premier

1 Midlands

BROMSGROVE kept their promotion dreams alive by running out 28-31 winners at Stoke-onTrent, despite a late scare.

A brace of tries from Drew Harper, while Thomas Hardwick, Robert Green and Russell Brown added their own efforts to take victory by just three points.

Bromsgrove were ten points ahead, but Stokeon-Trent pulled a try back and then kicked for touch in the dying moments, but the visitors held on.

The win keeps them within three points of league leaders Dudley Kingswinford, who bounced back from losing last weekend by a convincing 22-42 scoreline at Lichfield. The Staffordshire hosts found themselves 14-0 ahead with just 14 minutes, before William Hancox and Sam Vaughan pulled DK back to 17-14 behind at half-time.

In the second half, Dudley showed why they are table toppers running riot with further tries from Michael Protheroe, Fred Morgan, Joseph Heatley and Ben Rhodes securing the maximum points.

Full-back and leading scorer Vaughan added six conversions to his first-half try to cap a fine performance.

Bridgnorth also maintained their promotion push with an eighth victory from 12 games, their latest coming by 26-19 at home to Broadstreet.

George Newman, James Barham, Jonah Boyce and Will Biddell all crossed the whitewash to maintain their third place and just six points behind leaders Dudley.

Burton are also well within the promotion mix and maintained their position thanks largely to a James Davies hat-trick during a 12-31 victory at

Oundle.

Dom Tydeman and Henry Knox added further scores to keep the Staffordshire side flying with backto-back league wins.

The hosts did put up a fight with Darren Fox and Tom Aviss both crossing the whitewash and Jordan Carey kicking the extras.

Derby proved too strong in the second half running three tries past Nuneaton during a 15-27 victory.

Tom Adherne’s first-half try had kept Nuneaton in the game at half-time, before Derby powered to victory and then Tom Smitham scored a late consolation effort.

Finally Kenilworth came away with a 11-25 victory at Syston in the battle between the mid-table sides.