Local rugby: County set for decider

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Friday, February 19, 2010
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Leicestershire and East Midlands will meet at Belgrave on Wednesday in a Midlands Group A decider in the National Under-20 Championship.

Leicestershire beat a spirited Cambridge University 15-0 in their latest group match at Belgrave.

East Midlands also made it two wins out of two with a 42-14 victory against Warwickshire at Broadstreet.

Replacement prop Kieron Stone of Syston scored both of Leicestershire's tries which decided the game after an evenly-contested first half at Belgrave Pastures.

Fly-half Guy Swadling of Hinckley kicked a first-half penalty and converted one of Stone's tries.

At Broadstreet, East Midlands scored seven tries, five of them in a dominant second-half performance.

Warwickshire had the edge in the forwards throughout but East Midlands eventually made their superiority behind the scrum count.

They ran in a total of six tries with four of them in the second half.

That booked a winner-takes-all clash with Leicestershire, beaten semi-finalists last season, for a place in next month's Midlands final.

That is on March 10 at a venue yet to be decided.

The quarter-finals of the national stages of the competition are on Saturday, March 27, the semi-finals on Saturday, April 17, and the final at Twickenham on Saturday, May 1.

group a RESULTS: Warwickshire 5 Leicestershire 31; East Midlands 25 Cambridge University 15; Leicestershire 15 Cambridge University 0; Warwickshire 14 East Midlands 42.

Leicester Lions' Matthew Cook was in the England Deaf team who were edged out 25-18 by Wales at Broadstreet.

South Leicester's Len Fincham went on as a replacement.

Syston landed a 25-0 victory over Market Harborough in the Colts National Plate.

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