LUCTONIANS sent their local rivals Stourbridge home empty handed following a sound performance including six tries.

Ryan Watkins’ side were in firm control from the outset dotting down four tries before the visitors scored in reply and running out 36-19 winners.

The visitors started the game with some purpose and gave the home side a few scares before Lucs had their first foray into Stour’s half and scored through wing Charlie Grimes, following excellent work by Connor Deignan and Louis Silver, with the latter converting to take a 7-0 lead.

It was all Lucs until half-time with captain Joe White being driven over from close in on 17 minutes, Silver again converting and Will Pearson following suit when he broke away from the pack to dive over on the half hour to give the home side a 17-0 lead.

James Wheeler for Lucs was held up over the whitewash a couple of minutes later, but it wasn’t long before the excellent Ben Link was driven over to give the home side a 24-0 lead.

At this stage they looked like scoring at will, but Stourbridge proved to be made of stern stuff and reduced arrears on halftime when Nigel Mukarati was driven through a crowd of players, Archie Heard converting to send the sides in at half-time 24-7.

The large home support was expecting much the same from their team into the second half, but the game became scrappy with both sides guilty of penalties for infringements which killed the entertainment for the large crowd.

Lucs added to their score with a Connor Deignan try almost straight after the restart, Silver again converting to put the game beyond the visitors at 31-7.

Link was driven over again for his second try on 52 minutes giving the hosts 36-7 lead with 30 minutes to play.

Stour’s centre Arthur Morgan deservedly got one back for his endeavours, Heard again converting to bring the visitors back to 36-14.

However, the game became somewhat disjointed in the final quarter, and yellows followed for Will Pearson of Lucs for a high tackle, and Hayden Link of Stourbridge for foul play.

With the clock running down Heard intercepted a loose Luctonians pass on half-way to complete the scoring to give Stour some respectability at 36-19 at the final whistle

The maximum points victory sent Lucs up into seventh position in the National 2 West league table.

This coming weekend they look to gain further ground on the top six sides as they travel to fifth placed Exeter University.

Luctonians seconds continue to lead the way in Counties 1 Midlands West North, after their eighth successive bonus point victory, this time on the road at Newcastle RUFC in Staffordshire.

The men from Herefordshire were made to work much harder than of late for the 8-36 win, but in the end outscored their hosts six tries to one in a solid performance.

Oscar Rowley scored four tries for Lucs while Ben Owen added a brace and a further try came from Jack Small.