South stay top and win away from home

First verses second in National Three Midlands promised much but South were convincing winners at the end of 80 minutes

Ricky Aley made no mistake with a penalty and opened the scoring in the 14th minute, followed by a try from Connor Smith, conversion by Ricky Aley, stretching the lead to 0-10.

Carl Jeffs finished off an excellent move on 24 minutes to put Nuns, 5-10 but poor tacklin on 36 minutes lead to Connor Smith second try, looping around the back of the Nuneaton defence to score, Aley’s conversion stretching South lead to 5-17.

Wesley Cope picked up a yellow card and Wilson edged the three points over with the boot. 8-17 at half time

An early second half Nuns penalty closed the gap to 11-17

With an exciting looking second half in prospect Nuns tackling let them down again allowing Lee Robinson to run in for the unconverted try but the Nuneaton response was swift as Jeffs crashed over for his second to cut the deficit to 16-22.

With 57 minutes on the clock South added a Ricky Aley penalty and a Michael Maltman try to stretch the lead to 16-30 before hooker Wesley Cope added a converted try on 75 minutes. Aley added a speculative drop goal in the final seconds to seal the victory. 16-40