Saturday 29 November 2025
Morpeth 20 Percy Park 33
Regional 2 North
(HT: 13-19)
A shortened match report as a lack of a scribe at Mitford Road on Saturday last.
There were few changed to the side that defeated Keswick last weekend with no changes to the back line and very few in the forwards. Josh Hedley made his first start of the season in the second row replacing Sean Nairn who dropped to the replacements bench, Tristan Grant came into the front row to replace Nick Macklin-Copeland who also dropped to the bench, and it was a changed back row with Josh Cox moving to No 8 and Seth Henderson coming in at openside flanker, Ethan Wilson missing out. Freddie Harra joined Nairn and Macklin-Copeland on the replacements bench.
In awful conditions, rain pouring continuously and very cold, Park scored first after just five minutes through hooker Dan Shuttleworth, the conversion missed. Shuttleworth again and Seth Henderson added furthere first half tries, both converted by stand off George Chapman to open a 13-19 lead at the break despite a yellow card for second row Chris Reekie.
Prop Sam Digman scored shortly after the restart to secure the bonus point, George converted before Seb Reece scored, the try also converted to open a 13-33 lead. Morpeth scored at the death to leave the final score Morpeth 20 Percy Park 33.
Percy Park: 15 Tom Robinson; 14 Howard Stock ©; 13 Seb Reece; 12 Fergus Simpson; 11 Tom Bird; 10 George Chapman; 9 Andrew Walker; 8 Josh Cox; 7 Seth Henderson 6 Paul Spowart; 5 Chris Reekie; 4 Josh Hedley; 3 Tristan Grant; 2 Dan Shuttleworth; 1 Sam Digman
Replacements: Nick Macklin-Copeland; Sean Nairn; Freddie Harra