ALNWICK 26 – 17 PERCY PARK
A tired Percy Park lost to a resurgent Alnwick side at Greensfield, and now look set to finish in the runner up spot in Durham & Northumberland 1. The writing was on the wall as early as the second minute when Will Peberdy went over untouched under the posts for the home side in a well executed back move from a scrum on the Park 5 metre line.
PARK 47 – 6 STOCKTON
Both sides observed a minutes silence prior to the game as a mark of respect to one of Percy Park’s oldest and long serving club members Francis Kidd who passed away last week.
Stockton won the toss and elected kick against the wind in the first half. The two teams had made changes to the previous week, with Alan Blakey coming in for Sam Walton who was ill, and David Griffiths started on the bench, making way for Ashley Smith to start at fly half, with Liam Blackburn taking up the outside centre slot with Thomas Turnbull on the wing. Stockton fielded a mix of old stalwarts and youngsters looking forward to the end of their season which has been blighted by injury.
PERCY PARK 48 – 5 RYTON
The score line suggests one way traffic, but Park were made to work hard for the victory, scoring several tries following mistakes by the visitors. The Barmoor side had recently given league leaders Hartlepool Rovers a fright, and had won last week against Gosforth lifting them from the bottom of the table, and started strongly. In fact for the first 10 minutes Park were hardly out of their own half. Steven Fudge had a chance to open the scoring for Ryton but hooked his penalty kick.
CONSETT 23 – 47 PERCY PARK
The two sides met for the second time in four days, and at home Consett proved a sterner test for Percy Park. The home side had several players back in the side that were not available for the midweek fixture, and Park made one or two changes due to unavailability.
PERCY PARK 59 – 17 CONSETT
The first mid week league game was played at Preston Avenue under floodlights, to catch up on the missed fixtures due to a combination of adverse weather and Park’s progression to the semi final stage of the EDF Energy Senior Vase. Park started brightly and scored with Liam Blackburn diving over in the corner on 3 minutes, after the winger had made a break down the left hand wing, passed inside to Rutter, then received a return pass to score. Marcus Rutter missed the difficult conversion attempt that was only a metre in from the touch line.Page 44 of 148