DUDLEY Kingswinford smashed through the 100 league points barrier in Midlands Ones West with a 13 try battering of basement club Leamington.

The result lifted their average points per match to over 45 in the process but even better news came from Whitchurch, where Sutton Coldfield’s failure to get a bonus point saw their lead at the top of the table increase to ten points.

Top try scorer Stefan Shillingford increased his season’s tally to 19 with four tries in another power packed performance and Gareth Bown had an excellent day with the boot, converting 10 of the 13 tries for 20 points.

There was only one change to the side that beat Old Laurentians last week with Ben Connett coming in for Jamie Ramsey who was unavailable. The front row of Al Francis, Luke Greenwood/Dan Shakespeare and Stefan Thorp were again outstanding, giving their Leamington counterparts a torrid afternoon.

Meanwhile the back row turned over ball for fun, Jon Tideswell is settling in nicely on the blindside flank.

Leamington kept DK at bay for six minutes before Matt Farrington’s pass sent Shillingford away, blasting through two tackles to score at the posts with Bown converting for 7-0.

A second try followed after 9 minutes when Leam lost the ball in their own 22 and the ever alert Pete Knight snapped it up to score wide out. A fine conversion from Bown made it 14-0. The DK pressure was now constant and on 16 minutes Ben Connett picked up from a five metre scrum to feed Jon Tideswell for the flanker’s debut DK try. Gareth Bown added the extras.

Leamington tried hard to respond, setting up a couple of attacks but ended up being penalised on both occasions.

DK missed several good opportunities to score before the bonus point for the fourth try was finally achieved after 32 minutes. Constant heavy pressure on the visitor’s line finally bore fruit when from a five metre ruck the ball was moved right for Farrington to dive over. After 37 minutes more pressure in the Leam 22 saw Al Francis bounce off a couple of tackles following a free kick to plough over for an unconverted try.

Leamington were still giving it everything but they were simply unable to prevent a sublime try in first half stoppage time. A break from Ben Connett carried on by Ollie Shakespeare then tremendous, slick inter-passing through several pairs of hands saw Shillingford in space and arriving at pace on the overlap to score DK’s fifth try. Bown again added the extras for a 40-0 half time lead for DK.

DK’s seventh try at the re-start was rather bizarre. DK kicked off and the ball looked to be going out but actually bounced inside the touchline for the alert Ed Parry to snap up on the bounce and race 40 metres to the corner - a gift.

The next 10 minutes saw DK squander a hatful of chances, mainly through poor handling and passing, but the pressure was relentless and a brilliant eighth try arrived on 52 minutes when Jefferson fielded a Leam defensive kick and proceeded to carve through the Leamington midfield at pace before setting up Jak Davis.

DK scored a sensational ninth try two minutes later when Mike Jones rescued a loose ball to set up replacement flanker Tui Asi-Pito for a tremendous midfield break eventually finished by Shillingford.

Another great break saw the same player pick up his fourth and DK’s tenth just before the hour. Gareth Davies then scored with his first touch before setting up Davis for try number 12.

The final word was left to Tideswell with six minutes remaining as he scored from a five metre scrum.