Bees match report from Stourbridge
Sep
BEES director of rugby Russell Earnshaw admitted his side had plenty to
learn following a narrow defeat.
His pack dominated up front but failed to find a way through, the only try
coming when the visitors had skipper Liam Wordley in the sin-bin.
“We still have a lot of work to do and in a lot of areas,” Earnshaw
confessed at the end of the Damson Park thriller.
“We just weren’t good enough.”
Two Dan Hawkes penalties were all the home side could register before
the break, their progress hampered by back-row Chris Brightwell’s yellow
card.
In reply, the visitors ran in two tries in the opening 20 minutes through
No.8 Ben Sparks and Nathan Bressington, with Mark Woodrow slotting
over a penalty just before the interval.
Yellow cards punctuated the second half, Sparks and Wordley going into
the bin for Stourbridge with Sam Farmer seeing out the game on the
sidelines for the Bees.
And this had an impact on the game with penalties from Hawkes and
Woodrow the only scores in a tense 25 minutes at the start of the half.
When centre Gregg Evans did power through, Hawkes converted to haul
the Bees level.
But the visitors’ former Bee Woodrow kicked the match-winning penalty
three minutes from the end.
