Young Colts march on
The under 19s National Plate run ended in cruel circumstances when they drew 10-10 with Dursley at Monks Lane, only to go out on the number of tries scored, Joe Leadley's touchdown and Richard West's conversion being out-numbered by two Dursley tries.
But the under 17s won though to the South West semi-finals of their competition after a 25-3 win at Weston Super Mare Hornets secured a home game with Matson on March 18.
Newbury's first team, buoyed by last week's first win of the season, face a harder task when they travel on Saturday to a Redingensians side that last week won away to league leaders Bournemouth and has former Blues Chris Rowland and Will Clark in its ranks