By Ian Frizzle.

Counties 2 Tribute Dorset & Wilts South
Puddletown RFC 60
East Dorset Dockers 12
Puddletown started the day in sixth place with the East Dorset Dockers side one place below them, so a close contest was expected.
Both sides have been struggling for form this season and on a glorious afternoon at Greenfields the home fans were served up a treat with their side running in ten tries.
The opening spell was even until Brad Mulholland caught a poor Dockers’ clearance kick on the 22m line and ran past the defence to score wide on the right. Puddletown captain for the day Lucas Frizzle added the conversion, which kick-started The Villagers into action.
Veteran fly-half Baz Dovell showed a wonderful piece of individual endeavour with a chip over the Dockers’ defence on the halfway line – the ball sat up nicely for him and he ran in to score from 40m out.

Puddletown were now putting the visiting defence under pressure. Brad Harris saw an opportunity from the 22m line and jinked through the Dockers defenders to score under the posts. Frizzle added the extras. With the home forwards on top, Dockers committed a ruck offence five metres from their own line. Inside centre Tom Yeatman took a quick tap penalty and the ball was fed through to hooker Rhys Jenner who powered over to score a short-range try. Frizzle converted.
Yeatman was again the architect for the next try with a 40m outside break down the left flank before he popped the ball back inside to Brad Harris to score his second try.
The last play of the half saw the Dockers make a rare foray into the home 22m, their fly-half creating a gap and gliding through the home defence to score under the posts. But he missed the conversion and the score at half time was 33-5.

The second-half continued in much the same vein with diminutive winger Andy Edmonds making a clean break down the left wing and neatly offloading to flanker Joe Malpas, who touched down in the corner for an unconverted try. The forwards’ dominance continued and from a line-out on the Dockers’ 22m line the ball was caught cleanly, the pack driving up to the try line before second row Sam Pomeroy dropped over the line to score an unconverted try.

Puddletown scrum-half and captain Lucas Frizzle was next on the scoresheet after breaking down the left and scoring acrobatically in the corner. The home side’s ‘man of the match’ Tom Yeatman continued to create chances and after another outside break offloaded to replacement scrum-half Harry Pomeroy who scored an unconverted try.

Puddletown’s final try of the afternoon came through replacement centre Jake Carter who showed great pace and strength to break from the halfway line and split the Dockers’ defence to score under the posts. Ben Hooper added the conversion.
The East Dorset side continued to compete and eventually were rewarded with a well-worked try wide on the right, their impressive fly-half adding the conversion to make the final score 60-12.
Puddletown’s next league fixture is on Saturday 26 November away at Lytchett Minster.