Crewe and Nantwich Ladies crashed to their first league defeat of the season in a bruising encounter against Vagabond Ladies.
The Isle of Man side have a well-founded reputation for being a challenging team to beat away from home.
Crewe & Nantwich RUFC 1sts returned to winning ways with a 35-5 victory over Newcastle at the Vagrants.
Newcastle started the stronger but good defence from the home side enabled them to clear their lines to halfway.
Crewe and Nantwich Ladies weathered an early storm to come from behind and beat a physical Leigh team 32-12 in the National Challenge 1 North West League.
With a challenging run of fixtures, Crewe shuffled the team and rested some key players against Leigh, a team they had beaten heavily away from home earlier in the season.
Crewe & Nantwich RUFC’s recent strong run came to an end when they were beaten 35-0 away at league leaders Ludlow.
Crewe were forced into fielding a much changed side with the unavailability of 2nd rows Allcock and Wright, wing forward O’Leary and a long-term injury to prop Sposton.
Crewe & Nantwich RUFC 1sts were held to a “frustrating” 17-17 draw by Leek.
And Crewe coach John Farr admitted his side had been dragged into an “arm wrestle” instead of playing their usual style.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC Ladies continued their unbeaten league run in impressive style with a clinical demolition of Vagabond Ladies at Crewe Vagrants.
Four tries from captain India Perris-Redding, a hat-trick from returning winger Mary Shepperson and a brace each from Phoebe Jay and Millie Jones put the Isle of Man side to the sword in an impressive display of running rugby.
By Matt Baty
Crewe & Nantwich RUFC Ladies will be aiming to cement their top of the table position when they welcome Vagabonds to the Vagrants tomorrow (January 19).
The Ladies maintained their strong run with a 31-10 defeat of Carlisle Cougars last Sunday.
Crewe & Nantwich maintained their winning run with a 24-15 victory over second-placed Wolverhampton.
The home side started well and from the kick off back row Stewart O’Leary turned the visitors ball over to give the Crewe backs some early ball.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC Ladies took another stride forward in their quest to become league champions with a dominant performance against Preston Grasshoppers.
Preston nearly caused an upset in an otherwise perfect season for Crewe in the drawn away fixture in October.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC 1sts began the New Year in fine style with a powerful away victory at Camp Hill.
Their 28-37 win was the six consecutive league victory and moves John Farr’s men up to fifth place in the league, just one place below Camp Hill.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC 1sts maintained their strong winning run with another battling victory over Midlands side Veseyans.
Their 22-10 victory was the fifth consecutive league win, produced in driving rain and biting winter wind at the Vagrants in Willaston.
Crewe and Nantwich RUFC 1sts made it four consecutive league wins when they trounced Telford in torrential rain.
A spilled catch from the kick off put Crewe under pressure and they spent the first ten minutes defending their line.
Crewe and Nantwich 1sts made it three consecutive league wins after thumping league leaders Tamworth 45-7 at the Vagrants.
Tamworth started well but could find no way through Crewe’s well organised defence which was to be a feature of the game.
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