Huddersfield 10, Stourbridge 7

SORRY Stour slumped to their second successive defeat with a dismal show at Huddersfield, writes Nick Pullen.

Following the previous's week's poor performance at Leicester Lions, Stour were looking to bounce straight back.

Despite dominating in the scrum, Stour's indiscipline was again in evidence as they got on the wrong side of the referee with too much backchat.

But they duly took the lead when No.8 Drew Harper picked up from the base of a scrum and forced his way over for a try which fly half Gareth Bown converted.

Huddersfield cut the deficit with a penalty from Joel Hinchcliffe to trail 7-3 at half time.

But this was another situation when Stour failed to press home the advantage when on top - especially when Huddersfield went down to 14 men courtesy of a yellow card.

Too often, Stour wasted possession with poor handling and repeated knock-ons.

A turning point arrived when Stour lost their England Counties tight head prop Mark George through injury.

Stour lost their edge in the scrums from that point and despite laying seige to Hudderfield's line at times, were unable to make the breakthrough.

They were denied a possible penalty try and had another possible try ruled out when penalised for coming in at the side.

The inevitable happened when Huddersfield broke clear and kicked into the corner.

They then stole Stour's line-out ball before shoving replacement forward Richard Brown over the line for a matchwinning try which Hinchcliffe improved upon.