Dramatic draw seals extraordinary double for Old Swinford Hospital
Old Swinford Hospital School (OSH) won a history-making Schools Vase double as their U15s and U18s both won two thrilling, but very different finals.
The U15s beat Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar School 40-19 in a game which twisted and turned before three unanswered and converted tries took OSH out of reach from 19-21 down.
As well as Theo Stevens’ sniping try which gave them a crucial lead in the second period, each of OSH’s players with the shirt numbers 12 through to 15 all scored.
Miles Cutler, George Evans, George Smith and Oscar Fawkes-Underwood all crossing for respective tries, with Cutler’s the pick of them after breaking from his own half.
That gave them a 33-21 lead, and Cutler finished with aplomb in the dying embers of the contest to confirm a fine victory that had been once again built on classy attacking play.
For OSH’s U18s it was a much less straightforward route to the Vase, but despite drawing in the 70 minute match, they won the trophy after a 33-33 stalemate with Samuel Whitbread Academy, given the trophy after having scored first.
Four tries for Ben Radnor, including an extraordinary second where he caught from the kick off before spinning through and finishing from 25 yards out helped Whitbread to a 33-19 at the break.
But two tries in the final ten minutes through Emmanuel Olaleye and Rueben Uppal levelled the contest for OSH, before Radnor agonisingly missed a difficult last gasp penalty to win it.
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