Rochford were unable to hang on to an early lead as a much-changed Chingford got their revenge for last week's Intermediate Cup defeat.

Dave Wheeler's took a 7-0 lead when outstanding scrum-half Andy Baker took advantage of his side's dominance of the set pieces to wrongfoot the opposition for a try, which Ryan Dann converted.

Rochford held the lead at 7-5 at the break and had the wind advantage on the second period, but they conceded a soft converted try to put themselves on the back foot.

Two more tries then went in before Gavin Taylor added a late consolation try that was scant reward for the effort that an injury-hit Rochford side had put in.

Published Tuesday October 29, 2002

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