Police 2nd XV 15

Rest of Island XV 12

Age and experience were pitted against youthful energy and exuberance when the Police 2nds squared up against a President's (Rest of Island) XV team that had youth on its side and a large number of Bermuda under-18 players under the direction of player/coach Keith Hodgkins.

The younger team featured the likes of standoff Shauntion Simons, ably supported by Andre Landy, Lubin Sousa, Patrick Richardson, Kai Edwards and Marcus Symonds.

The young legs and willingness to attack from anywhere soon found the fading Blues against the ropes and a well-taken lineout ball by second row Daniel Morgan was powered over by Henry Adderly for a converted try to open the Rest's account 7-0.

Shortly afterwards a fine individual effort by Shauntion Simons saw the standoff fight his way through several would-be tacklers and score a startling 50-metre try in the corner to make it 12-0.

Some smart positional play put the larger Police pack in a lineout close to the line. A text book take and dive orchestrated by Keith Senior and Keanan Press saw the burly boys in Blue power over from close with the diminutive scrum-half Gareth Davies claiming the honours.

In the second half, down 12-5, Police played with more urgency and the quick-thinking standoff Guy Bowker was instrumental in bringing his team back into the game.

A counter-attack saw Bowker link up with Davies who drew the cover before putting the lightening quick winger Dean "the Sheffield Slasher" Martin away with acres of space. Martin made no mistake and scored in the corner to make it 12-10.

As the game progressed a draw looked the most likely outcome until Bowker retrieved a long ball at half-way and passed to Davies who exploited space in the middle and, when the Rest finally reacted to close the Welshman down, he fired a long pass outside to the unmarked Martin who thundered down the sidelines to score in the corner giving the Police 2nd XV a thrilling 15-12 comeback victory.