Focus on Rugby in Cornwall

Rugby County Championship

The top tier of English rugby's County Championship has been renamed to honour one of the greatest players to have risen through its ranks. This 120-year-old competition has been somewhat eclipsed by the era of professional rugby, but there are still hundreds of players who turn out for their county hoping to lift the Bill Beaumont Cup.

Fixtures for 2009/2010 were:

Friendly and Cup matches:

TAMAR CUP (Cornwall & Devon Development squads)

Sunday 7th March 2010 Cornwall v Devon at St Ives RFC - Lost 16 - 20

County Championship:

Southern Pool games

Cornwall lost their opening fixture at Camborne against their old rivals on May 8th. After an encouraging start, Cornwall playing with their usual passion and intensity, were rewarded by a try from Mark Richards. A further penalty try saw the Duchy race into a 12-0 lead. After some tactical replacements by the Devon coaching staff, the old enemy fought back strongly with two converted tries, making the score Cornwall 12 - 14 Devon at Half-Time. After the break, Cornwall got themselves back in front with an excellent try by Mark Bright. Devon responded by moving Ed Lewsey to scrum half. This move saw the visitors gradually exert more and more control on the game, scoring 3 more tries to put Cornwall to the sword, avenging last years 33 - 25 defeat in Devon.

Cornwall got a late win in Hertfordshire, thanks to a try from Mark Bright, with a last gasp conversion by Ian Morgan, to give them a chance of progressing further in the competition. The simple task required - To beat Gloucestershire at Redruth by more than 25 points!!

Unfortunately, this was not to be ... Cornwall put in a tremendous second half performance losing to Gloucestershire by 27 points to 31 after a very poor start by the 'Black and Golds'.
One piece of tremendous news however, Devon lost heavily in Hertfordshire and they have been relegated from the division.

The Bill Beaumont Cup Competition County Championship final was held at Twickenham on Sunday 30th May. Lancashire scored five tries to none to defeat Gloucestershire in the final of the Bill Beaumont Cup for the second successive season.

RESULT: Lancashire 36 Gloucestershire 6

County Championship 2010/2011:

Southern Pool games

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Club Rugby in Cornwall