Dk's Simon Fletcher atttempts to break the South Leicester defence

The Dudley Kingswinford revival continues apace under the new coaching team of Ian Shillingford and Mark Lockley - as they conjured up a second consecutive victory to move them off the bottom of the Midlands Division One table.

The 15-5 home triumph over promotion pushing South Leicester was well-deserved and now gives them hope of fighting off the threat of relegation.

DK were caught cold from the kick-off and found themselves 5-0 down inside the first minute.

Quick hands from the visitors set up full-back Matt Clarke to hit the line at pace and catch the DK rearguard on the wrong foot, sprinting through for a fine unconverted try.

Stung by this early reverse DK quickly got into their stride putting the SL defence under heavy pressure. A tremendous break from Carl Robinson set up a scoring opportunity but good cover defence from SL snuffed out the danger. Simon Fletcher eventually reduced the arrears to 5-3 after 19 minutes with a converted penalty DK huffed and puffed with a huge advantage in terms of territory and possession were unable to take advantage before the break.

The visitors threatened briefly at the onset of the second half but DK quickly resumed the offensive.

The hosts finally took a deserved lead on 54 minutes.

Another excellent, quick ruck ball from the DK pack was moved right where full-back Cameron Pimlow somehow managed to rescue a wretched pass - thrown behind him - with one hand, before quickly transferring the ball to skipper Ian Gowland (pictured) who rampaged through the remnants to put DK 8-5 up with a flamboyant, trademark try.

DK had several further opportunities to increase their lead, but for the merest hint of hesitation, Ben Coles might have snapped up a clear interception opportunity on 64 minutes and a superb tackle from skipper Ian Gowland inside the SL 22 set up another clear chance after 69 minutes with a knock-on rescuing the visitors.

Finally in stoppage time, and with DK still pressing hard on the SL line the visitors desperately tried to run the ball out of defence, a knock-on saw scrum-half Alan Mitchell swoop on the ball and move it quickly via Ian Langford to Tom Weaver who took the ball at pace to score in the corner. Simon Fletcher ended another good day at the office for DK by slotting the difficult conversion from the touchline.

10:10am Thursday 24th January 2008

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