On the road at Braywick Park, Finn Ivory bagged a brace and Patrick Brown, Josh Jones, Aaron Preston, Aiden Pugh, Theo Pett-Ridge, Jack Mander, Ollie Ireland and Jack Taylor all crossed the whitewash, Matt Cox adding six conversions.

In the home game against Farnborough, Louis Roumignac, Cam Oakley, Brian Babalola and Jake Scott all touched down before the interval and with Tom Barclay slotting a trio of conversions, Rams led 26-7.

Further tries from Henry Benton, Will Smithen and Albie Dance, added to be a brace of Oakley conversions, rounded out an impressive 45-7 success.

The Colts begin their National Cup campaign at Marlow this afternoon, with the Extra As heading to Alton for a friendly.

On a busy day when fixtures across the junior section get into full swing, the Under 16s have two games this afternoon as they welcome two Newbury sides to Old Bath Road, one game kicking off at 1.45pm and the other at 2pm.

The U15s went down by three tries to nil under the floodlights at Bracknell last Friday, but will hope to kick-start their campaign with two games this afternoon, at Abbey and Hungerford.

Elsewhere, the U14s travel to Henley and host Reading (1.30pm), while the U13s are due to play Newbury.