Starting with the winter sun at their back, they faced a rejuvenated Lewes team whose back line looked dangerous right from the kick-off. An early penalty from the hosts was quickly followed by some clever passing allowing their Antipodean centre to waltz untouched through the
Warlingham midfield for their first converted try.

Centre Mark Kozminski put Warlingham on the score board with a long range penalty and this stirred the Warlingham pack with lock Neil Robson and flanker John Dowling to the fore. When No 8 Ollie Dodwell gathered the ball on the halfway line he made a swift break, unloading to winger Alex Skinner who took play deep into the Lewes 22. From the resultant lineout Lewes eventually regained possession and drove up the field. With quick recycling and determined running, the midfield gap was exploited for a second time for a try. Try as they did, Warlingham were on the rack and when Lewes went wide on the right the
visitors ran out of defenders and the Lewes wing touched down in the corner.

For once the Warlingham restart was perfectly placed and winger Jon Osborne reclaimed possession and ran aggressively at the defenders.
Warlingham sensed a score and raised their game when both scrum half Steven Murtagh and centre Brad Saffery made inroads. Pressurising the Lewes line the ball reached prop Kieran Scutt in the tram lines and he shrugged off defenders for Warlingham's first try. When Lewes soon worked themselves close to the Warlingham line their effective lineout gave them possession and a well worked maul, embarrassingly for the visitors, gave them their fourth, bonus point try just before half time.

The second half brought more of the same with the Lewes back line in command. However, Warlingham girded their loins and made a much better fist of first-up tackles and general defensive work. Frustration crept in and, when Lewes were closing in on the Warlingham line, lock Luke Delderfield was harshly yellow-carded for failing to roll away after the tackle, a ploy used repeatedly by the more streetwise Lewes forwards. During his absence Lewes scored two tries in quick succession but their dominant No 8 was finally yellow-carded for repeated infringements and the Warlingham pack, including prop substitute Simon Townsend, made the most of it and steam rollered towards the Lewes line and Dodwell nipped over for a try converted by Kozminski. Lewes had the final say in the match when their rolling maul resulted in their seventh try sealing a dominant victory.

Warlingham: Abou-Zeid, J Delderfield, Scutt, L Delderfield, Robson, King, Dodwell, Dowling, Murtagh, O. Doe, Kozminski, Saffery,
Skinner, Osborne, McEvoy,Townsend, Atkinson, A B Doe.