DROITWICH bounced back from last week's disappointing defeat at the hands of Worcester Wanderers by producing their best performance of the season to date.

Julian Bailey's men hosted basement side Coventry Marconi and racked up a convincing win.

Droitwich played into the strong wind in the first half and adopted a policy of keeping the ball in hand, and getting it out wide whenever possible.

Solo effort

And it was quick ball to winger Leon Hopkins that produced Spa's opener. Hopkins took the ball in his own half, before chipping ahead to gather and out pace the defence for a fine solo effort. Matt Blackmore added the conversion. Shortly afterwards number eight Jimmy Richardson powered over from 15 meters.

After the interval Droitwich, with the wind on their backs, really cut loose. A poor clearance from the visitors was charged down by skipper Nick Godfrey, for Blackmore to seize on the loose ball and score under the posts.

Hopkins then added his second following a flowing three quarter move.

The electric winger then completed his hat trick after confusion in the Marconi defence.

Blackmore added a penalty to stretch the Spa lead even further.

In the dying stages Jon Andrews was held up short only for veteran prop Greg Garfield to power over from short range. Once again Blackmore converted.

Droitwich will be most satisfied with this performance. The forwards performed well, both in the loose and tight phases, and the backs produced some excellent running, handling and support play.

This was typified by Hopkins, whose performance justified his three tries.

l Droitwich U10s played three matches against Bredon U10s at the weekend with very little to chose between the two teams.

Bredon had a slight edge in the first game and won by one try to nil.

Droitwich played well as a team in the second match and tries from George Priddy and Harry Rees kept the contest alive. Ultimately Bredon ran out winners by 20 points to ten though. In the third game Droitwich managed to get a win under their belts. Tries from Josh Feek, Joel Power and Joe Ingle were enough to give Spa a 15-10 win.