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SAD TIGERS CAGED IN TROJANS ROMP!

SAD TIGERS CAGED IN TROJANS ROMP!

November 16, 2021

TROJANS 1 ROMPED TO A 90-45 VICTORY AT HEREWARD COLLEGE AS THEY FLATTENED TAMWORTH TIGERS IN DEVASTATING STYLE.

THE DAMAGE WAS DONE IN THE SECOND QUARTER AS THE RAMPANT HOME SIDE HIT TAMWORTH WITH A 20-2 BURST TO MOVE FROM 26-20 AND KILL OFF ANY HOPES THEY HAD OF CAUSING AN UPSET, AND THE 100% RECORD THEY BROUGHT TO HEREWARD LAY IN TATTERS.

IT WAS A TREMENDOUS TEAM EFFORT FROM NEW-LOOK TROJANS WHO HAVE LOST THE DICKSON BROTHERS AND SCOTT OWEN FROM THEIR RANKS, BUT YOUNG AARON MURRAY HAS MATURED INTO A STYLISH FORWARD, AND HE GRABBED A DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORE AS MARK LARNER ONCE AGAIN SHOWED HIS CLASS TO LAND 34 AS DOMINIK GORGOL ADDED 21 AS THE TEAM SLOTTED IN ELEVEN THREE-POINTERS INCLUDING THREE FROM WAYNE JONES.

QUARTER TWO WENT TO TROJANS 22-10 AND THEY WERE EVEN BETTER IN THE THIRD WHICH THEY WON 28-8 WITH LARNER’S CONTRIBUTION TO THIS PERIOD 17.

NEXT UP FOR THE UNBEATEN TROJANS IS A TRIP TO AYLESFORD HAWKS NEXT MONDAY WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE A TOUGHER TEST FOR THE RAMPANT TILE HILL MEN, AS THE SECONDS GET THEIR FIRST GLIMPSE OF CHAMPIONS ARDEN GRIFFINS WHO COME TO THE COLLEGE ALSO ON AN UNBEATEN RUN.