THE Malvern Pirates celebrated their final match of the season with a fine ten-try win over Evesham at Spring Lane on Sunday.

MALVERN U16 PIRATES 64PTS, EVESHAM U16s 0

The Pirates were clearly on top of their game and out to impress Dave Robins, the MRFC director of rugby and a sizeable crowd.

The Malvern pack met their bigger counterparts head on and when a scrum turned in their favour, the Malvern backline was set loose and only a last ditch tackle from the Evesham full-back pushed winger Craig Smith into touch. The Evesham line-out was stolen by Stefan Milosajlovich and as the Malvern eight-man drive crossed the try-line it was flanker Ben Mason who grounded the ball to open the Malvern account with full-back Sam McCoy adding the extra two points.

Soon after, McCoy completed another blistering attack to score a second try for Malvern and kick them into a 14-point lead. Centre Phil Shore added another five pointer minutes after, when he made an inside break from outside the Evesham 22.

Evesham consolidated their resources and Malvern became careless and gave away a series of penalties. Turn-over ball less than two metres from the line gave Malvern the chance to break and keeping the ball alive they rampaged towards the Evesham half. The moved ended with a try for McCoy and a 26-0 lead for the Pirates at the break.

Evesham pressed hard for a score in the second half and Malvern had to work hard to defend their lead. Eventually, Evesham ran out of steam and the Pirates exploited the advantage and ran in five tries from Craig Smith, Dai Morgans, Mike Chandler and two from Shore for his third hat-tick of the season.

Sam McCoy completed the rout with seven conversions, bringing his personal tally to 24 points but it was the magnificent performances of lock Piers Harris and flanker Ben Mason that saw the pair share the man-of-the-match award.