RYAN Carr’s sensational late score helped Rams Colts retain the OBB Division One title with an exhilarating 22-20 home success against Windsor.

With the sun shining on the league’s two outstanding teams, the opening 20 minutes of this winner-takes-all encounter proved a scoreless if intensely physical battle.

It was Rams who got their noses in front, however, a powerful maul halted short of the line before some patient play ended with Jack Mander burrowing over from close range.

Matt Cox nailed a fine conversion for 7-0, but a helter-skelter end to the first period saw a couple of cards and a Windsor try.

Firstly, the visitors were perhaps harshly reduced to 14 men for a high shot by No. 8 Will Rider, Rams second row Matt Hill then sin-binned for the same offence before livewire Windsor scrum-half Lawson Horley benefitted from a fumble to regain his own chip ahead to get his side on the scoreboard.

The home side made a dream start to the second period as more patient play ended with Cox sending Carr over for a converted try, Windsor swiftly replying with a wave of goal-line attacks before a cross-field kick gave Lucas Hayes-Garcia the easiest of touchdowns.

Rams, though, extended their lead to 17-10 from the restart, a breakdown penalty allowing Cox to nudge over a sweet kick from 35 metres out.

Yet Windsor refused to wilt, their increasingly influential midfield duo of Harry Stevens and Lockie Lee to the fore, and it was the latter who spotted a gap to dot down under the posts.

Jowan Bailey made no mistake from the tee to level matters, and things got worse for Rams when Mander blotted his copybook with a red card for an off-the-ball incident.

With the game entering its final stages Bailey landed a penalty which would have helped Windsor seal both the game and title, but Carr had other ideas as his scorching break from 45 metres out ended with a fabulous finish in Clubhouse corner.

There was still time for more drama, however, Horley bursting down the left before a vital tackle by the imperious Charlie Burton, man-of-the match off the back of a herculean defensive effort, halted his potentially match-winning charge, the second row’s Oratory School colleague Cian Tappan then snaffling a jackal turnover before Elliiott Jones booted the ball off to crown a fabulous success.