Glenwood thrash Kearsney

KEARSNEY travelled to Glenwood to play what was an eagerly awaited match between the two KZN rivals.

Kearsney started well and put the home team under some serious pressure in the opening couple of minutes. Glenwood managed to stand a strong defence on their own try-line for the opening 10 minutes. Glenwood’s strong defence and consistent pressure helped the home team gain some much-needed possession, but a lapse in concentration allowed Kearsney the first points of the game through an intercept try by the Kearsney number 10 in the 14th minute and with the conversion Kearsney took a 7-0 lead.

Slowly it proved that Glenwood's skill may have a part to play as Glenwood used their string forwards to go through a number of phases and their persistent attack paid off with a try of their own, which came from a sniping run from Flanker Jonothan O'Neill and the safe boot of Maarten Holtzhausen tied the game up at 7-7 at half time.

After the half-time break Kearsney stood strong in defence as Glenwood had multiple crash balls. Glenwood's constant battering at the Kearsney's try line finally proved fruitful when Glenwood's big lock JJ Van Der Mescht went over to score Glenwood's second try and in tough windy conditions Maarten Holtzhausen still proved clinical as he took the score to 14-7 in Glenwood's favour.

The game continued to be very physical as both teams put in big tackles, Glenwood eventually wrapped up the game as fly half Frankce Botha made a clean line break beating Kearsney's resilient defence one more time, giving Glenwood a 19-7 lead. A quick kick by Maarten Holzthausen on the stroke of full time gave the Glenwood team a 21 -7 victory against a well organised and strong Kearsney team.