Basingstoke showed just what they can do in this game controlling it from almost the first On 10 minutes Mike Goodall opened the home account with a penalty only for Stoke to go and give an immediate opportunity to Abbey which they gratefully took to equalise. The rest of the half was nip and tuck with a Simon Appleby try on 28 minutes being the only other score, so half time Basingstoke led 8-3
The second half all the scoring came from Stoke as on 47 minutes Caan Childs scored a try converted by Mile Goodall, 10 minutes later Simon Appleby scored his second again converted by Mike The last 20 minutes saw much endeavour from both sides but no further scores thus the final score was:

Basingstoke 22 Reading Abbey 3

team: Mike Goodall, Dave Lambert, Andrew Patrick, Myles Rutherford (sub Darren Lillywhite 52 mins), Karl Buttle, Simon Humbertsone, Jamie Fish, Neil Young, Simon Lovegrove, Shane Murphy, Ross Stirling, Chris Williams, Simon Appleby, Jim Dixon, Caan Childs (sub Tom Northcote 68 mins)