Darlington Mowden

The deadlock was broken when Mowden broke from inside their half and James Park running in his first try of the day Daniel Wilson converting.

Billingham returned the compliment when some poor tackling from Mowden allowed Billingham to move the ball from one side of the pitch to the other going over in the corner missing the conversion. Just before half time Jack Henderson broke through Billingham's defence and went on to score a great individual try with Daniel Wilson converting.

Billingham put Mowden under pressure right from the start in the second half even with some fine tackling from Chris Isles and Joe Mercer Mowden where unable to keep Billingham out who scored from a penalty, missing the conversion.

Mowden responded with some fine forward play from Stuart Sweeney and Mark Tweddle and supported by their backs with strong runs from Daniel Wilson and Luke Kelly broke down Billingham's defence allowing James Park to run in and score, Daniel Wilson just missing the conversion.

Mowden's captain, Adam Kelligan, after the game applauded his team's spirit and the way they continued to play the game, their most physical game to date.

Darlington Mowden Park

Mowden Under-13s produced an impressive display in very heavy conditions in their 34-0 win over Tynedale. They opened their account in the third minute with a pass from Adam Kelligan to Daniel Wilson who drew Tynedale defence and passed to James Park to go over and score under the posts, Daniel Wilson converting.

Five minutes later, from a Mowden scrum, Stephen White fed the ball to James Park who switched directions to score in the corner, conversion falling short. Mowden continued the pressure and were rewarded five minutes later when, from open play, Luke Kelly ran through Tynedale's forwards to score, Daniel Wilson converting.in the 22 minute. Mowden's no 8 Mark Tweddle breaks from the scrum pops the pass to the supporting Daniel Carter who scores conversion missed.

Tyndale came out fired up in the second half only to be met by a fine run by Daniel Wilson who goes on passes to James Park and scores conversion missed , five minutes later Mowden finished the game off when James Park goes over and scores his fourth try of the day.

Darlington

It was well worth the walk from Durham City's clubhouse to their Shincliffe playing fields if only to see a pitch in superb condition despite heavy recent rain.

Darlington Under-13s were looking to build on last week's win however their performance was overshadowed by their first ever sin-bin and the referee cutting short the game because he felt the conduct of both sides was inappropriate.

In between these incidents Darlington played some excellent rugby. Durham started well and appeared in control when their full-back kicked long, straight into the arms of Joe Kiberige who pinned his ears back, not for the first time this year, and scored after a 40 yard run up the wing.

The second came after a quick tap following a penalty just outside Durham's 22, Paul Smith this time making it to the corner. Matt Lister added a third just on 15 minutes. Durham were far from giving in and they returned with a try of their own from a scrum ten metres inside their own half. A single missed tackle and poor cover allowed the Durham backs to move across field and then on to the line.

With five minutes left of the first half Elliot Love was sent to the bin and then full-back Matt Lister also had to leave the field, injured after putting in a tremendous tackle stopping his much larger opponent.

Darlington immediately responded with their fourth try, Paul Smith nipping round the narrow side after collecting the ball from a line-out. William Atkinson put in a notable performance playing this time at flanker. The half time score was 5-20.

Darlington started the second half with their best try of the match. The forwards secured clean ball at the scrum ten metres out and stand-in fly-half Richard Leigh twice dummied to excellent decoy runners Kiberige and Moore, wrong footing the Durham defence to score close to the posts. Minutes later Kiberige again found opportunity to run and when given the chance there are few who can catch him and he accelerated away to score Darlington's sixth.

Soon aftrewards the referee asked both coaches to talk to the players following another incident and this appeared to upset Darlington's dominance and Durham responded with two unconverted tries. Before Dexter Bogle replied with Darlington's seventh and final try. Moments later the referee ended the match early with the final score Durham City 15, Darlington 39.