Lions claw their way beyond Lucs

By ALEX SMITH

Luctonians..............37
Leicester Lions.....43
Leicester Lions maintained their 100% start, but were pushed all the way in the end by a resolute Luctonians.
Lions started the game far sharper and heavy forward pressure at the scrum and lineout allowed them to score twice via Edward Sumpter and John Murdoch, with Ben Young getting one conversion, giving the visitors a 5-12 lead after 20 minutes Tom Jones scored an unconverted try for the hosts in between.
A pair of Louis Silver penalties for Lucs, either side of an Alex Wilcockson score for Lions took the score to 11-19, be...

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