In blustery conditions a seesaw first half opened Mike Goodall scoring a penalty goal after just three minutes. The home side came back strongly and fly half Owen Gustafsen charged down an attempted clearance from Simon Humberstone to touch down and give his side a 5-3 advantage. Stoke then retook the lead when leading […]

Stoke gained revenge with this tight win in wet conditions to open the New Year with an important Playing into a strong breeze the home side went behind to 2 penalties and in at half-time trailing 0- With the elements in the second half but with a dying wind it took until the 48th […]

Basingstoke kicked of their first night game against Tottonians 2 leagues below in heavy freezing fog. Stoke playing at pace were quickly on the score sheet with tries on 3 minutes D.Lambert, 10 M Rutherford, The fog was now clearing and it was easier to see what was happening but getting ever colder however the […]

Basingstoke left it late but secured a moral boosting win at Reading Having trailed for most of the game late points allowed the visitors to take the spoils with scores from Caan Childs, Chris Williams and Mike Swenson with Simon Humberstone posting a penalty and converting all three Final score:
Reading Abbey 14 Basingstoke […]

The Cup game against Tottonians originally scheduled for 10th December away is now home on the 20th December 7.30pm. Yet another first for the club as we go midweek under lights.

This was another match which Basingstoke could and should have It was always going to be a tight contest but Stoke had the majority of possession and territory but did not score the points. The first score did come on 25 minutes to Jamie Fish with Simon Humberstone converting. Stoke then let the visitors […]

This away fixture could be classed as the one that got Stoke had many chances of winning this game up mistakes allowed the home side to score three tries which was enough to see of Basingstoke who scored their points through Simon Appleby and Jamie Fish tries both converted by Simon Humberstone who also […]

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 […]

Basingstoke went down to a narrow defeat to Reading 25-19. Stoke had the best of the first quarter and deservedly held an early 12 point lead, however Reading hit back with two unconverted tries to go in at 10-12. Stokes scores came from Dave Lambert and Myles Rutherford tries, the latter being converted by Simon […]

Basingstoke suffered a last minute defeat in a game they should and could have won. This defeat was a case of a game lost through errors with a first half full of missed tackles giving the visitors a half time lead of 19 points to nil. The second half Stoke came to life […]