Thurrock Sport
Thurrock U14s edge out Upminster
10:39am Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Thurrock U14 12, Upminster 10 RUGBY: THIS Essex Cup quarter final was a game of two halves.
Upminster looked the stronger in the first half and were boosted by a very early try.
Thurrock did well to hold on at half time to a 10 point deficit as Upminster pressed the Tees’ line for some time just before half time The half time talk did the trick and Thurrock came out looking like a different team.
They pushed Upminster to the brink many times.
But Upminster were no pushover and always kept their heads up. Thurrock eventually went over from a scrum and got the conversion. A second try out on the wing was unconverted. It was only the conversion that separated the teams for the last quarter of the match and Upmister made a very late break only held up by some superb defence fro m the home team Now the team know they must perform again in the Essex Cup semi final.