Idris Martin
Freelance Photojournalist
Dorset & Wilts RFU Press Officer.
5 Hanover Road
Weymouth
Dorset
DT4 7QP
Tel.01305 776027
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Dorset & Wilts RFU Press Release.
14/03/2017.
It’s the RFU Knockout Competition Quarter Finals stage this weekend & Dorset & Wilts clubs are represented in all 3 national competitions.
In the Intermediate Cup South West Final, Swanage & Wareham entertain Truro @ Bestwall Park Wareham with the game kicking off @ 2.30pm.
Swindon College Old Boys who knocked Weymouth & Portland out of the competition must visit Saltash in the RFU Senior Vase while in the Junior Vase Calne entertain Spartens of Gloucester.
All three competitions end with a Twickenham final.
The Dorset & Wilts Senior Second Team Cup Final takes place @ Warminster where North Dorset lock horns with Bournemouth.
There is no Dorset & Wilts league rugby action @ Monmouth Avenue this weekend, but on Friday evening the Seasiders Social xv meet neighbours from over the hill, Dorchester Social xv with the game kicking off @ 7.00pm.
On Saturday the Seasiders stage a 3 way rugby league competition between the Army Veterans. Devon Sharks & Dorset Giants the first match starts @ 12.30pm.
Earlier @ Monmouth Avenue a fund raising walk on behalf of Weldmar Hospice Care from Weymouth & Portland Rugby Club to Dorchester Rugby Club begins @ 8.30am.
The Seasiders chairman Ian McMillan said: “Our former captain Julian Quick spent his last days in the care of Weldmar so this is 1 way we can try to repay them”.
Idris Martin
