Stamford recorded their biggest victory of the Counties 1 Midlands East (South) season after a convincing success over Peterborough Lions on Saturday. The purple, black and whites ran out 59-7 winners and now hold a 13-point advantage at the top of the league table. It was the third time in the last four games that Stamford had hit the half-century points mark as they completed a league double over Lions following their 39-3 win at Bretton in October.
With players returning from injury and travels, coaches Matt Albinson and George Cox had the luxury of resting some of their squad with two fixtures this week. Town started well and a quick release to James Wilson saw him run in an early try. However, it was the visitors who struck next with some good support play which allowed them a try that was converted to give them an early 5-7 lead.
This was the only time they would trouble the scoreboard in the game though as Stamford soon got back into gear. A long range move by Wilson and Harley Riches was finished off by Frazer Hutton who added the conversion to make it 12-7. Town's running and passing game had Lions going backwards and it was another long range strike that was recycled for Iain Downer to score and Hutton to add the two extras.
Stamford then entered a period where their usual cohesion was lost and silly errors were creeping in but, when they won a penalty, they went wide at pace and Wilson finished in the corner for the bonus point try that made the score 24-7 at half-.
