Bedford Blues Women completed a perfect twelve out of twelve in their Midlands NC2 South league campaign with a comprehensive 45-5 victory over Stockwood Park at Goldington Road on Saturday.
It brings an end to a stunning season for the Women, who have made waves at Goldington Road and secures a successive promotion up to an NC1 division next season as the Women’s section goes from strength to strength at the Blues.
The leaps and bounds the team have made under the combined leadership of Eddie Rennell and Peter Frost have been evident in the consistent points scoring the Blues maintain, and that was on show from the off on Saturday.
Emma Graham’s converted try after just 67 seconds put the Blues into a lead they would never surrender with Graham running in the score from forty metres to get the Blues on the board.
Heidi Lawson’s try on the quarter hour mark extended the lead – once again converted by the consistent Lucy Middleton – and when Alyce Trude extended the lead to 19-0, the 100% record looked to be remaining intact.
Lawson quad seals the deal
Stockwood got on the board with the last play of the first half thanks to Aine O’Connor, but it would be the only points they’d score all afternoon as the Blues would dominate the second half.
Lawson scored her second try of the afternoon in similar fashion to her counterpart Graham’s in the opening minute, and it was ‘Grimbo’ who would score next to score a brace of her own.
However, it was Heidi Lawson who would steal the headlines as she scored the Blues’ sixth and seventh tries – securing four of her own – as Bedford Blues coasted home 45-5 and securing the perfect record and took them over 200 league points for the campaign.
“We left our best performance for the end”, said co-Head Coach, Eddie Rennell post game.
“We linked very well between the forwards and the backs, and we were right up there with what we would need.”
The team move up another division up to NC1 and will indeed have a target on their backs after an invincible season, with Rennell saying, “We’ll definitely hold our own!”
A perfect league campaign matched with a gripping cup run in the RFU Junior Cup equals a season that could not have gone much better for a side formed only a few years ago.
The group will now re-group throughout the summer as they tackle a new division once again in 2024/25.
