Penryn faced a strong Redruth Development team, in their toughest examination of the season, writes Ross Hancock.

Against the likes of regular first teamers, who have played national league rugby this campaign, the Borough earned a memorable victory.

You would be forgiven in thinking this was a football score line that had been mixed up, but yes, it really did finish only 3-0. In truth it wasn’t a classic for the neutral, or for either of the team's healthy support on the sidelines, but the Saracens wont care a jot. Sunday morning would have seen many a battered, bruised and sore body, but on the evidence of the scenes at the full time whistle, it was well worth it for all those involved. The game started slowly with a host of crunching hits, and sloppy errors as a result of extreme pressure from both sides, with Redruth providing just one early scare for the Borough.

Penryn did well to pin Redruth back in their own territory for the majority of the half and even the whole game and could barely believe they were still level at the break with all their possession and territory, along with a spurned penalty goal attempt. They did go into the break with a man advantage, following a crazy period in which two Reds players were shown a yellow and one a red. Redruth were left fuming at some refereeing decisions, but the reality was that Penryn stayed on the right side of the law throughout. Redruth's scrum half was first to go, for killing the ball, only to return form the sin bin and get shown a second yellow for the same offence and in turn leaving the field with a red card. Redruth had a spell with 13 for a late hit at the breakdown, but Redruth's defence was as stubborn as the hosts to leave a scoreless first period delicately poised.

The second half started as the first had ended, with a lottery at the line out and an evenly mixed war at scrum time. Incredibly it was still scoreless. Penryn stuck to their guns though and continued to pin Redruth back into the corners of the field and with great success and as the game drew towards a close the unlikely thought of a 0-0 draw looked ominous. A moment of inspiration was needed, but how it came would have surprised many.

With play loose and nothing on, fly half Andrew Seviour let fly with a snap drop goal from around 45 metres out, with a clean yet wobbly strike that sailed gloriously over the bar, for the lead and the games only score. Penryn just had to defend as valiantly as they had done previously in the game and they would see home a famous win. The fact that Redruth entered the Penryn 22, on just three occasions and no kickable penalties were conceded in the whole game, let alone the final periods, where the home tackling was ferocious to say the least, this just highlighted the mammoth effort put in by everybody on the day. When the final whistle blew, the delight was there for all to see and this long unbeaten run goes on and on.

Saracens: J Symons, O Evans, M Fittock, W Paine, J Martin, A Seviour, J Preston, K Oldfield, H Mills, A Cockrell, T Ashe, B Trevaskis, R Hancock, T Tullin, R Trevaskis Reps; A Smith, J Conran, J Heazelton, D Pellow.