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BillTRELAWNY’S ARMY ANNOUNCE PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARDS
Trelawny’s Army members have voted Cornwall captain Jake Murphy as their 2018 Cornwall Player of the Year.
Centre Murphy played in all of Cornwall’s senior fixtures last season captaining the side in what proved to be a turbulent Bill Beaumont Cup campaign.
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In National 2 South, Redruth travelled over to Guernsey for a Saturday evening game played in typical autumnal Cornish weather with driving rain and wind.
Despite the conditions the Reds held on to win 16-15 and bring back home four points.
Richie Kevern converted Ben Fox’s second half try,
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Kyle Moyle looks to break the tackle. Photo: Brian Tempest
Cornish Pirates 29 Richmond 19
Keen to keep progressing, the Cornish Pirates made it four bonus points wins out of four in this season’s Greene King IPA Championship,
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Having started this season’s National League 2 South campaign on a positive note with two wins, Redruth’s supporters were given a nasty reality check on Saturday as their beloved Reds crashed to a 68-21 loss at Worthing.
It looked good at half-time 14-all and all to play for but four tries in the opening nine minutes of the second half put head coach Ian Davies’ Worthing side well in command and they never looked back.
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Wooden Spoon is the rugby charity for disadvantaged and disabled children. The Cornwall region has worked tirelessly to raise more than £120,000 for projects supporting disadvantaged and disabled children in the local community. All the money raised in Cornwall remains in Cornwall to benefit these children.
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BillHartpury RFC 17 Cornish Pirates 46
Report by Pirates’ Media Officer Phil Westren
Overcoming something of an indifferent start to this contest, when they went 12 points down with just eight minutes on the clock, the Cornish Pirates recovered so admirably well to not only back into the game but to also proceed to comfortably win it.
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In the South West Premier, Camborne celebrated their RFU club accreditation with a 23-20 win against visiting Maidenhead.
After a slow start that saw the Cherry & Whites trail 10-0, Jake Champion got his side on the board with a penalty. The visitors still managed to reach half-time 13-3 to the good.
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BillREDRUTH 29 – 27 TAUNTON TITANS (HT 10-3)
By Bill Hooper, at the Recreation Ground
Redruth took the spoils in this action packed game which could have swung Taunton’s way during a tense finale.
Redruth head coach Pale Nonu was delighted that his young side had shown great maturity.
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“Strictly” Sam Matavesi. Hooker has all the moves – Photo: Brian Tempest
Cornish Pirates 35 Coventry 10
Rightfully pleased to have won their 2018/19 Greene King IP Championship opener 31-24 at home against Doncaster Knights the previous weekend, the Cornish Pirates backed up that result with another victory at the Mennaye Field on Sunday,
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The long awaited first weekend of league action saw some encouraging results for our Cornish clubs along with one or two disappointments.
The Cornish Pirates report is in the previous blog entry so straight on to National League 2 South and Redruth’s fine win at Dings Crusaders so often a graveyard for Cornish clubs.
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