The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Rampant Lions start 2022 as they mean to go on with big win
Peterborough Lions chairman Andy Moore promised his side would come roaring back in 2022 and it looks like he could be right.
The city side returned to action with a side strengthened by new recruits and fit-again performers and crushed Lutterworth 38-10 in a Midlands Division One East fixture at Bretton Park.
Prop Callum Jakes returned after eight months sidelined by injury, hooker Matthew Worrall-Claire was back for the first time since September, also because of injury, while Will Carrington has come back to Lions after three years away at Oundle and then Huntingdon, while second row forward David Arnold has moved across from Rushden.
“We are now able to compete in all areas with joined up play,” Moore enthused. “We’ve started the year as we mean to go on.”
Lions started sluggishly on a boggy pitch and had to come from behind to win.
Lutterworth led 10-7, but Lions were in front by two at the break and then scored 26 unanswered points in the second-half.
Roko Davui crossed twice from full-back, while prop Ben Wilkinson also scored two tries.
Man-of-the-match number eight Katili Tuipulotu and Charles Pendelbury were Lions’ other try scorers with Sam Dumigan kicking the rest of the points in a bonus point win.
The Lions moved up one place to third from bottom and travel to the team just below them, Market Harborough, on Saturday.
• Ex-Tongan international Tevita Tiueti has left the post of Lions’ backs coach.
• The much feared Peterborough Lions U14s, having lost only one match this season, stormed to a 42-5 victory against a very strong Stewarts and Lloyds XV at Bretton Park on Sunday.
Man of the match Charlie Janoway scored two tries however it was the Lions pack that dominated the game.
Rory Driver, Olly Heading, Alex Harlow, Edward Goodchild and Thomas Willis also crossed for tries for a team playing official under 14 rules after the end of Covid restrictions. The team play their first East Midlands Cup game on January 23 at Bretton Park.