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Photo: Cory Teague leaps high for Cornwall
Cornwall Under 20s put on a superb show of running rugby at Camborne on Sunday afternoon running in ten tries against Berkshire in their first County Championship pool game.
After a shaky opening Cornwall gradually got on top going ahead with a try from Toby Robinson.
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Photo: Tommy Phillips in action for Cornwall against Berkshire last season
Following a trial session before Christmas, the Under 20 squad have trained for a number of weeks. In preparation for the Championship they played a friendly against Devon U20 at Launceston RFC on the 22 January winning 33 – 19.
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Photo: Ducker bags a further two tries at Barnes
With the Cornish Pirates Championship game at London Welsh being cancelled as the Welsh exiles find themselves in liquidation the centre of attention switched to the Reds’ trip to Barnes in National League 2 South.
Having scrapped home by a single point 33-32 the previous week against Exmouth,
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Photo: Marek Churcher
Redruth head coach Marek Churcher has been appointed Cornwall’s backs coach taking over the role from Ian Morgan who stepped down earlier this season.
Speaking about the appointments to the coaching staff Cornwall’s head coach Graham Dawe said,
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BillYesterday evening, players, coaches and officials from the Cornwall RFU assembled at St. Austell Brewery Visitors Centre to plot a chart that will hopefully bring Cornwall a third successive Bill Beaumont Cup, reports Bill Hooper.
With a new group there were some new faces and inevitably some familiar faces from previous seasons who will not be participating this season.
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Photo – Last season’s squad in action against Berkshire
Under 20s
Cornwall 33 Devon 19
U20s coaches Mike Rawlings, Bryn Jenkins and Matt Shepherd will have been pleased by the bright start their squad have made to the season prior to the Championship pool matches.
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A win was the only objective for Camborne on Saturday and they got just that with 25-18 success against Ivybridge.
It’s been a tough few weeks at Crane Park and the Cherry and Whites mounting injury crises will not ease matters in the short term.
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Ducker scored a great try against Chinnor
It was good to get back to rugby and see my first game for 2017, and what a game it was as Redruth defeated Chinnor 29-12 scoring four superb tries in a National League 2 South thriller.
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Photo- Redruth’s Brad Howe receives the Tony Pill Memorial Cup as man-of-the-match
REDRUTH 54-7 CAMBORNE
Words By Bill Hooper, Photos Phil Trevarton
Redruth comfortably retained the Rodda’s Milk Cup against old rivals Camborne in front of a large crowd on a sunny Boxing Day afternoon.
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Only one place to start this week and that’s in Camborne, where it has been an eventful 48 hours for all the wrong reasons.
I could sense all was not well when arriving at the ground on Saturday and this was soon confirmed when told Ian Morgan was not at the game.
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