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11th February 2006 NLD/NL
East Leake 0 - 15 Castle Donington
In a game where Donington had much of the posession, poor finishing regularly let them down as they only scored three tries in a match which their pack dominated.The first half saw the visitors pushing East Leake all over the place but the first score didn`t come until just before the half time interval. Matt Hall and Dick James took the ball forward at the scrum and Jim Elson crashed home from close range.
The second half saw the same balance of play with Alan White (67mins) and Rick Bentley(76mins) adding to the scoreline with the finishing touches to solid work from the forwards.
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17th Sep 2005 Powergen Junior Vase
Tupton 6 - 42 Castle Donington
Castle Doningtons 1st XV cruised to a well deserved second round place with a seven try drubbing of Tupton RFC
Tries came from Stu Saxby (2), Matt Hall, Matt Kibble, Piers Goode, Dan Keeling and Edith who also added two conversion and a penalty.
At home our seconds played Uttoxeter 2nds and narrowly lost 15 - 17.
Uttoxeter put all their points in during the first half and Donington almost completed the reversal in the second sessionwith tries from Dick James, Steve Wiggins and Ben Symcox
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10th Setember 2005 NLD/NL Fixture
Castle Donington 25 - 3 Worksop
Castle Doningtons first home league fixture of the season saw them play host to Worksop with a victory.
An early penalty by Paul Howells put the first three points on the board and 10 minutes later sustained Donington pressure paid off with a well worked try scored by Matt Hall, this was converted by Howells to give a 10-0 lead.
Towards the end of the half Worksop’s Darren Shepherd was successful with a penalty which gave the visitors their first and only points of the game.
The second half saw the home side continue to dominate and Howells added to the points with another penalty four minutes in. Another ten minutes went by by before the visitors gave away a penalty on their own five metre line, the ball was tapped and passed to Alan White, who crashed through to make it 18-3. With Donington comfortable in all areas of play, Andrew Hayden wrapped up the try scoring with a scything run and Paul Howells added the conversion to top it off.
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14th January 2006 NLD/NL
Buxton 7 - 21 Castle Donington
Victory at Buxton puts Castle Donington back level with Ashby
With all other clubs in the NLD in cup action or having a rest Donington made good use of their game in hand over Ashby to move up to joint first with points scored / conceded being the deciding factor.
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November 26th 2005 NLD Knockout Plate
Castle Donington 30 - 6 Dronfield
The NLD Knockout Plate action for Castle Donington saw them take on NLD/N opponents Dronfield in warm up for this weeks league game.
They made hard work of the fixture though and Dronfield had the first points on the board after only eight minutes with a penalty from Lowery. Not the most auspicious of starts but it served as awake up call for the home team.Immediate hard pressure resulted in a scrum on the Dronfield 5m line, Donington had the put in and drove to the line, whereupon captain, Paul Howells, grounded the ball for the try, he duly converted this to put 7 - 3 up.
Twenty minutes later it was almost a carbon copy event with the exception of Pauls’ boot. This was the end of the scoring in the first half, but not for the game. Dronfield yet again opened the scoring after an eight minute wait with a second penalty from Lowery, this was to be their last contribution to the scoring though.Howells put another penalty over seventeen minutes later. It was back to the pack again as Matt Hall found his way to the try line for the third . The last two minutes of the game saw Piers Goode and Matt Hall score again.
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3rd September 2005 NLD/NL
Notts Casuals 7 - 15 Castle Donington
The first league fixture of the new season saw Castle Donington walk away with the points. Tries were scored by Piers Goode and Matt Hall, a conversion and a penalty added by Paul Watson.
The Second XV were also in action, also at Casuals and a closely contested game ended with honours even at 19 all.
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November 19th 2005 NLD/ NL
Castle Donington 25 -11 Buxton
After the end of Doningtons unbeaten league run against Ashby the previuos week normal service was resumed against Buxton.
Buxton had the stronger start to the game but were soon trailing from a Paul Howells penalty. His next score was from a conversion to Mark Boddy`s try.
The visitors then struck back through Jay Mc Guigan to drag the score line back to 10 - 6 at the end of the first half.
Mark Boddy then added to the score with a quick tap penalty and dive over the line. This was followed by Paul Howells with a drop goal after 55 mins.
The Donington scoring was rounded off by a Jean-Eude Michaud try converted by Howells. The opposition were not to be ignored however and Darren Shipley put in a late try for Buxton.
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8th October 2005 NLD / NL
Castle Donington 9 : 8 East Leake 1
Castle Donington maintained their 100% start to the season with a nerve wrackingly close win over a determined East Leake 1st XV, all of this in front of Donington`s Vice Presidents.
The scoring for the home side all came from the boot of the team`s captain Paul Howell and consisted of two penalties and a drop goal.
Donington 2s 22 : 13 East Leake 2s
As a precursor to the NLD action the second teams served up a good display and as has been the case for the early part of the season Donington started slowly and came out in the second half with a scoring burst.
The Visitors put away two tries aconversion and apenalty inthe first half to strike up a 15 point lead, these were to be their only points however. Paul Shepherd, Ben Symcox and Mick Davies all put the ball down over the line and Dick Beard obliged with two conversions and a penalty.
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1st October 2005 NLD / NL
Anstey 3 - 26 Castle Donington
Four out of four so far for Castle Donington after the vist to Anstey. The visitors wasted no time in opening thir account, when after three minutes play they were awarded a penaltty which was put in to touch. The line -out was secured by Donington and this resulted in a seige on the Anstey line. The defence were drawn into the melee and Mark Boddy at scrum-half piled in to score the first try with Paul Howells adding the conversion.
The restart saw Anstey reply with their only points of the game with Brown kicking a penalty. On 20 minutes a period of sustained pressure saw Piers Goode break through to score and Paul Howells adding another two from the boot. This wasn`t the end of the first half action however and Andrew Haydon beat three defending players to with a solo run, culminating in a try benaeth the posts. Yet again the skipper put the ball over the uprights to maintain his record for the day.
The game was wrapped up in the early part of the second half when after eleven minutes a 22 drop out from Anstey was returned by Donington and quick accurate passing resulted in Evil putting his second try of the day down.
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15th October 2005 Powergen Junior Vase
Castle Donington 23 : 22 Upton on Severn
tCastle Donington 1st XV just managed to scrape a win and progress to the thirs round of the Powergen Junior Vase. The single point victory came after overcoming a 10 point ,first half deficit.
The home teams tries came from Ollie Saffell, Paul Shepherd and Andrew Hayden. Two penalties were added by Paul Shepherd and a conversion from Paul Howell rounded off the scoring
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