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The previous match between these teams was a one sided affair, with Denbigh winning by 60 points. However this time Bay had their Captain and Vice Captain back who were missing through injury during the previous encounter. And it was them, Ritchie Evans and Bobby Blackwell who took the game to Denbigh from the whistle. The first half saw Bay electing to play into the strong wind, but this seemed to make no difference as the pack made deep attacks into the opposition half. The strong wind hampered both sides attempts to play a wide backs game. But Bay were lucky in that they had the experienced kicking of fly half Andy Williams-Owen to rely on to gain them great

field positions deep in the Denbigh half. It was from one of these good field positions that bay managed to force a handling error from a Denbigh centre and Bay centre Dougie Graham was quickest to the spilled ball. He skilfully dribbled the dropped ball over the muddy ground and scored near the posts. Williams-Owen added the conversion. Straight from the restart Denbigh showed they were no mugs and immediately score their own try by way of nice flowing backs move to score out wide.

This brought the score line to 07 - 05. From the restart Bay pack soon started making great inroads into the Denbigh half, with strong rucking and mauling by locks Mark Bratt and Man of the Match Richard Chinary. Chinary's work rate being superb thought the whole game. Even though the Bay pack were only yards from the Denbigh try line the strong wind and wet conditions gain hampered attempts to score another try. Denbigh stopped one good backs attack from Bay, but only for young Bay fullback Tom Blackwell to quickly take the opportunity to score a fantastic drop-goal despite the terrible conditions. Following this was a good spell by Denbigh, who spent some time in deep in the Bay half. The try of the match soon resulted. The Bay pack won the ball back on there own 22 and a speculative long ball was passed out to left wing Steve Davidson. Showing great strength and pace in the heavy conditions he handed off the attempted tackles of the Denbigh outside centre and winger and sprinted up the touchline and then cut infield sharply to leave the two covering

defenders grasping at shadows, the try being scored between the posts. Williams-Owen converted for a final score off 20-8.