Hinckley travelled to the University of Birmingham for the latest round of N3M matches versus Bournville. Mark Lord and Dylan Weddle featured at half back, while Steve Morfill, Jordan Goddard and Josh Smith made up the bench. Joe Glover ran the line with aplomb!

On a bright and breezy day Hinckley made all the running, playing with the breeze at their back, to establish an eighteen point lead. Two tries from the outstanding Tom Morris, one from a rolling maul that drove the home pack over their own line from the home 22 metre line, and another in broken play after an astute kick behind the home defence by Matt Loveday. From the resultant line out it was Loveday's long pass that enabled Morris to go over after good approach work by Weddle, Peck and Weston.
Mark Lord converted the second try and added two penalties. Alex Salt and Weddle made telling breaks which kept the home defence on their heels as Hinckley were in control.
Home kicker Alex Warner failed with three penalty attempts early in the game while Dave Peck collected a yellow card in the latter stages of the half after some desperate Hinckley defence. Bournville used the numerical mis-match to score two converted tries in that period by Tom Southall and Ashley Knight, the former created by Robin Eatough’s deft offload.

Half time was reached with the score at 14-18 in the visitor’s favour.

Hinckley lined up agains’t the breeze and immediately took the game to their hosts with Salt, Morris, captain Matt Fearn and Mark Deaville all prominent. From one such Salt drive, Fearn actually touched down, but the referee was unsighted so a scrum was called with the Hinckley put in. Again the visitor’s pushed their opponents over their own line for Salt to touch down. Lord added the conversion to move the score onto 14-25.
Hinckley were caught out at a penalty as Warner chipped for the corner and Bournville winger Paul Sumner touched down with the aforementioned adding the conversion - 21-25.
Hinckley responded in style with the best try of the game which also confirmed the try scoring bonus point. From a midfield position Lord moved the ball wide with quick hands from Morris, Smith and Mitch Culpin enabling speedster Sam Greasley to run around the Bournville defence to score a fine try. Lord added the difficult conversion to extend Hinckley’s lead.
The visitors had control completely in the forwards and from another devastating rolling maul Peck got over in the corner to move the score onto 21-37. Lord couldn’t add the conversion, but Hinckley closed out the game to take the decisive five league points away from home.

The smiles and uptempo body language in the players huddle after the game confirmed the victory as Hinckley host Bromsgrove at Leicester Road next week.

Could the wheels be back on the Black and Amber machine - only time will tell, but this victory could be the turning point!