STANFORD beat Basildon II in a friendly 25-10 after their scheduled league match was called off.

Stanford started the stronger of the two sides with an early attack and a cross field kick that Kyle Munro sprinted onto and cross the line after just two minutes.

Adam Gander's pace and strength saw him add a second try for the hosts after 16 minutes and then quick-thinking from Dominic McDonald set up Ricky Percival for Stanford’s third unanswered score. Calum Reid stepped up and comfortably added the extra two points.

Reid then converted a penalty just before half time to send the hosts in at the break 20-0 up.

Basildon got a try back at the start of the second period before both sides were reduced to 14 men when frustrations boiled over and a yellow card apiece was dished out.

With two minutes left of the sin bin, Liam Morley went on one of his driving runs and bullied his way towards the Basildon line, Jared Gounden was on hand to finish the move off.

Basildon had the last say, adding another try to their count, but it was only to be a consolation as Stanford won 25-10.

Scrum half Dominic McDonald was named man of the match.

Stanford’s second team lost 37-13 at home to Ilford II in the John Adler Cup.

The visitors play their rugby two leagues above their hosts so clearly Stanford, despite home advantage, were the underdogs.

However the Stanford team hadn’t read the script and in the first half matched their opponents in every play and at half time the scores were level at 13 apiece.

The second half was the undoing of Stanford. The unity they had shown in the first half started to come apart and Ilford made good of this advantage by scoring 24 unanswered points to eventually seal a 37-17 win.

Stanford’s man of the match was Paul Starns.

Stanford’s under-15s recorded a comfortable 50-7 away win at Burnham, despite having 13 men compared to their opponents 14.

A hat-trick of tries for Ross Gale was sealed when he selflessly switched sides to play for Burnham when they lost a player to injury 10 minutes before time.

Daniel Davidson added a brace of tries while Joseph Dulligal added a try of his own plus four conversions.

Ben Kersch-Hunt was powerful all game and deserved his try after sprinting to the line and shrugging off the Burnham defence.

Captain Matthew Hook scored the last of Stanford’s tries with a very good individual effort. However, try scorer and conversion kicker second row Marcus Edgeway took Stanford’s man of the match for his breaking runs, powerful mauling and total security under the high ball.