MINETY’S second team registered their biggest victory of the season with a thumping defeat of their Westbury counterparts.

With the 1st XV preparing for next week’s Dorset & Wilts Vase Final, the spotlight fell on the 2nds who responded with by far their best performance of the season at Minety Fields.

Playing uphill and into a stiff breeze in the first half, the home team took just four minutes to register their first try when centre Dan Wilson scored after a flowing backs’ move. Fly-half Tim Vaughn converted.

Scrum half Will Mason then scored the first of a hat-trick of tries in the 15th minute and when flanker James Stuart crossed for a brilliant individual try in the 28th minute the match was effectively over.

Centre Rob Budgen and Mason added further tries before half-time to bring the home side’s score to 31.

In the second half Minety used the wind to push Westbury deep back into their own half and piled on the pressure.

Keiran Gash ran in try number six before replacement Ben Langridge grabbed two tries of his own, converted both times by Mason.

Further tries by Mason and Wilson pushed the score beyond 70 and young number eight Gareth Pierce was the next man to get in on the act.

The final move of the match saw an excellent interchange between the backs, which allowed Budgen to cross the line, but he chose to pass to veteran club coach Andy Ward, making his first appearance on the pitch this season, to touch down to end an entertaining and enterprising performance.

All eyes will now be back on the first team as they go for Dorset & Wilts Vase glory against Lytchett Minster at Warminster on Saturday.