U13s Home win vs Aldwinians

The first home game of the season for the under 13's was a somewhat one sided affair against an Aldwinians side diminished by injury.

Despite the loan of Bolton hooker Peter Webster and flying back Ed Perris to the visitors, it was Bolton who scored straight from the kick off with a fine touchdown for Sam Atherton. Top scorer Leon Hodson scored with one of several solo tries capitalising on his fast and strong running after five minutes before Perris scored for the visitors to bring the score line to 2-1. In the forwards department, Bolton have an embarrassment of riches and it was a good showing in the scrum and ruck from all, most notably LukeDavies, Fred Holt Gregson, Oskar Chadderton, Oliver Belle , Blake Griffiths and Connor Whittle.

New boy James Carville had a bright debut, teaming up well with George Jackson to feed the ball to Oliver Keogh for the first of his five tries on 9 minutes. Hodson scored his second and third of the day to put the cherry and whites up by five tries to one by only the thirteenth minute. In the second of three thirds, Bolton ran over a further four tries with Keogh scoring his second , Hodson getting tries four and five and Tyler Maley joining in the fun as the Backs put Aldwinians to the sword. With the score at 9-1 going into the final period, Bolton could have been forgiven for taking their foot off the gas, but instead persevered and scored a further seven tries without response. Keogh got his third fourth and fifth tries and Hodson racked up a total of seven. Mark Glynn had his industry rewarded with a try five minutes from time, but the biggest cheer of the day was for forward Luke Davies who powered through to score his first competitive try under the posts. Final score Bolton 16 tries, Aldwinians 1 try.

Even accounting for the visitors injury problems, this was an impressive backs display, although tougher challenges inevitably wait ahead.