Both sides turned out on a fine Saturday afternoon with one win to date under their belts, writes Kevin Donovan.

The first hour of the match the scoreline was close with Chobham leading by just four points.

In the final 20 minutes they lifted their game well and drew away with two tries and two penalties to OWs' single converted try to claim a decent win.

Both stand-offs took a liking to a new Gilbert ball with Wimbledonians' Des Nangle finding long positions to touch but relieved by clearances from James Justice for the visitors.

Nangle capitalised after 10 minutes when he dropped a neat 30-metre goal following two penalties run upfield by OWs and possession from the forwards.

It took another 10 minutes before Chobham's forwards worked their way into OWs' 22 for prop Rob Brown to twist over in the corner for their first try.

Ball possession was shared for the remainder of the half but little was speedy enough to allow either set of backs to produce a serious attack. The scrummaging was fairly even but Chobham tended to dominate in lineouts which enabledg them to spend more time in OWs' 22.

Despite a couple of well-measured clearance touch kicks from OW fullback Tom Connolly Chobham's forwards tasted success again with a repeat try in the right corner, this time by flanker Cory Kennett.

Brian Boundy for OWs put in a magnificent kick to the right touchpost on the restart but Chobham cleared the danger and turned round for the second half seven points ahead.

From the kick-off Wimbledonians broke away dramatically but the attack was hauled down five metres short.

Matt Jones succeeded with a 20-metre penalty after a Boundy pick-up was run through the centres and Chobham killed the ball.

Chobham started to pile on pressure, firstly with a side-stepping run from centre Andrew Walsh who fed Kennett for his second try under the posts, followed by two penalties from Walsh.

Wimbledonians immediately attacked from the kick-off with a handling move into Chobham's 22 which was illegally stopped but allowing skipper Jones to run in sharply for a try which he converted. Chobham almost literally had the last word, however, when Kennett broke off fast and popped up a try-scoring pass to Justice, his supporting stand-off.