Soton Solent Univ 0 Andover 29.

Oakwood sponsored Andover followed last week’s demolition of Alton with a performance of pure class at Solent University.

Unbeaten, top of the league and confident, the home side could not have anticipated what was about to hit them as Andover simply dismantled them in every department.

From the kick-off Andover tore into their opponents and not even the loss of star centre Niko Rowe after just three minutes could dampen their ardour.

James Dawson replaced Rowe almost seamlessly and Andover simply carried on where they left off against Alton the week before.

Man of the match Tom Waite showed his intentions with an early 30 metre break to give Rich Rettalick a penalty which he gratefully accepted to set Andover on their way.

Nic Reed followed his front row colleague’s lead and his break led to Sam Froggett scoring neatly in the corner after a fine handling move.

Solent tried to respond but were met with a solid wall of black as Andover shone equally in defence.

Andy Franklin and Martin Smiles are growing as a half back combination and took turns to demoralise Solent with some fine tactical kicking.

Andover then turned the screw up front with Waite, Reed and Alex Hibidge devastating the front row and with stand-in skipper Marc Wilding and Aaron Hatcher in fine form at the lineout further scores were inevitable. On the half hour Froggett’s excellent run fed powerhouse Fijian Paul Tuinsakea to power over from 20 metres.

After the break Wilding finished off a pushover try converted by Rettalick and minutes later Andover increased their lead with another lovely score as second row Matt Moore showed great pace to go over after good work again from Reed.

Before long Andover added two more scores through Froggett and the superb Jack Stott.

Coach Andy Waite said after: “We were absolutely superb today and showed last week was no fluke. ‘To be honest the only surprise is that we didn’t score more tries as we missed several other good chances.

‘The challenge for us now is to be more consistent because when we play like this we are the best team in this league.

Tomorrow Andover have a break from first team action before another top of the table clash against US Portsmouth the week after.

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