Kendal blitzed by Caldy

Mar 17 2010 by Our Correspondent, Birkenhead News

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CALDY gave their home fans exactly what they have been threatening for a number of weeks with a nine try blitz of Kendal at Paton Field.

Kendal were hit by injuires overnight but Caldy’s pace and power proved far too strong for the visitors.

For the first twenty minutes of the game Kendal looked as though they could keep pace with Caldy as a drop goal from Mike Scott and a penalty from Ireland kept Caldy close after a try from JJ Dickinson.

Paul Arnold scored his 19th try of the season with a cheeky run under the post and from there on in it was one way traffic. Craig Smithson scored the try of the day when a long passage of play between the Caldy side saw Smithson race in from fifteen yards. Dickinson scored his second of the day on 32 minutes and was followed shortly after by Jon Nugent who broke two tackles to score under the posts. Vasey converted all of the first half tries to leave the half time score 36-6.

Andrew Soutar broke free in open play on the Kendal 10 metre line and raced for the line on 50 minutes to take the score to forty points to six before a superb brace of tries from Gav Roberts stretched the Caldy lead to fifty seven points to six with Vasey converting both of them. Then in the final minute of the game Jake Lyon who had an excellent game intercepted the ball inside his own half and out sprinted the covering Kendal tacklers to score under the posts. Vasey completed proceedings with a conversion and took his personal tally to sixteen points. All in all the most complete performance of the season so far for an improving Caldy side.