RESILIENT READING MOVE UP WITH SIGNIFICANT WIN

By PETER CHIDGEY sport@wokingham.today

READING continued their good run against the top sides by beating second placed Stow at Holme Park. They ran in three tries in the first half and followed up with a second half score to seal their win. Reading’s forward power particularly in the scrum and their ability to convert their chances gave them a deserved win against the only team to do the double over them last season.

It was from a scrum near the line that the first Reading try came, the referee awarding a penalty try and yellow carding the Stow number eight as the main offender from the Stow pack in illegally preventing a push over.

Stow came back well and launched a series of attacks in the Reading 22 but the Reading defence held out and when the ball went loose from an