Skipton suffer another away defeat (From Craven Herald)

Skipton suffer another away defeat

2:21pm Thursday 4th October 2012 in Sport By Warren Burnett

Ripon 16 Skipton 3

Skipton’s woes continued as they suffered another defeat despite a battling performance.

They also suffered two injury setbacks which didn’t help their cause on a beautiful day for rugby at Ripon where, sunshine and a strong breeze greeted the players. Skipton won the toss and elected to play with the wind in their favour and slope advantage.

After eight minutes Skipton had forged ahead with a penalty converted by scrum half Alex Baldwin.

But five minutes later following good work from the Ripon pack they were also awarded a penalty which was duly converted to make it 3-3.

Ripon were dominant in both the pack and the backs. This resulted in them securing a penalty but the kick was missed.

Skipton then had a setback when pack leader David Wellock suffered a shoulder injury and had to leave the field to be replaced by sub Ben Hall.

GSkipton suffered a further injury setback when centre Jacob Wright was concussed and could take no further part in the game.

Five minutes into the second half Ripon took the lead from a penalty.

This was turning out to be a fairly even contest but Ripon had a fortunate break and scored a try under the posts which was converted to extend their lead to 13-3.

Late in the game Ripon converted another penalty to make the final score 16-3.

Chris Sheehan and Chris Wright gave good performances with Ben Hall and Shaun Barroclough working tirelessly in the back row. Baldwin at scrum half did a fine job.