The win, their second successive National League 3 South West victory in three games following an opening day defeat at Barnstaple, brought them their first four-try bonus point of the season, and moved them into sixth place of the league table with a home game against Chippenham next Saturday to come.

Delighted skipper Owen Root said afterwards: “It's a long trip to Devon and we got off the bus and started slow and I thought `this could be a Barnstaple all over again.' But we've grown up a lot in two weeks, learnt some lessons and the way we came and played and we started to turn things around and sorted our game plan out is a testament to the way that we've matured.”

Despite the rigours of the long five hour coach journey Rams started brightly enough and were 3-0 to the good after just four minutes when the home side were pinged by excellent referee Sara Cox for not releasing and scrum half James Brooks comfortably converted from 30 metres.

But Brixham picked up the pace as the half wore on and only a foot in touch from right-wing Jonny Brown denied them a try as their confidence grew. And it was rewarded, minutes later, when No.8 Jarryd Harris touched down a breakaway try wide out and well converted by fly half Ben Lovell to lead, 7-3.

With their tales up the home side enjoyed their best period of the game with Rams even losing No.8 Ollie Randall to the sin-bin to compound their problems as Lovell banged over the resultant penalty to put his side 10-3 ahead.
But Rams struck back almost immediately as Brooks booted over his second penalty when a home player went offside at a ruck.

With Randall restored to the pitch it was the No.8 who lent a hand in Rams opening try just as half-time loomed. He caught a wayward ball at the tale of a line-out and with hooker Rory Paxton burrowing into the home defence the ball came back for centre Steve Bryant's neat switch to send his centre partner Amor roaring over and with a well-struck Brooks conversion end the half leading 13-10.

And they made it 20-10 immediately from the restart when from the excellent Bryson's take at a line-out Ollie Johnson, Spike Chandler and Josh Smith all had a hand in the move that ripped open the home defence and was finished off by Hopkins and converted by Brooks for a 20-10 lead.

And Rams, with newcomer Andy Bryans now on for Chandler, never looked like relinquishing their lead throughout the half especially when prop Luke Batten, eventually, finished of a marvellous searing break from fly half Nigel Gumbleton but which, this time, went unconverted.

It also announced the arrival of replacements Tomas Owen and the previous weeks try scoring flanker Samir Kharbouch who turned in a huge try scoring 30 minutes.

While Brooks missed with a long range 65th minute penalty attempt Rams had extended their lead just three minutes later when, from just inside the Brixham half Kharbouch received the ball and set off on a blinding run up the left wing to totally outstrip the home defence and touchdown in the corner and his second try in two games.

Again Brooks just failed to convert the difficult attempt and Rams 30-10 lead stayed that way until the final whistle.

“I think that we're really impressed with today because we went down to Barnstaple and got things wrong and there were echoes of that coming into the game, but the boys just dealt with it very effectively and I was really impressed with the second half,” commented Rams backs coach Seb Reynolds. “We know these boys can perform to a standard and what they can deliver and they showed it today.”

Rams: Chandler; Smith, Bryant, Amor, Johnson; Gumbleton, Brooks; Batten, Paxton, Baker; Root (c), O'Connell; Bryson, Hopkins, Randall. Reps (All used) – Owen, Kharbouch, Bryans.

Report By Steve Williams

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