LUCTONIANS are on the brink of making club history as they consolidated their fourth placed position in National League 2 West with a 15-27 win in Shropshire against Newport.

The Mortimer Park said have now made it seven wins from their last eight fixtures.

Playing up the slope and into the wind, the visitors still made another fast start and from a driving maul, number 8 Aiden Cheshire dotted down for a 0-5 lead, as Louis Silver missed the conversion after 15 minutes.

The hosts hit back soon after to tie the scores through winger Charlie Gamble for an unconverted score.

Newport then outflanked the Lucs defence and the other winger Daniel Brough beat two men on his way to scoring a fine try for the hosts.

Casteldine missed his second conversion of the afternoon, but Newport now lead 10-5 with half an hour played.

Luctonians replied just before the break when a 50-22 kick from Tom Jones gave Lucs the field position for another powerful maul and this time Ben Link would be trundled over for his 14th try of the season. Silver continued the missed conversion theme and at the break scores were 10-10.

Lucs started the second half sharper again and Josh Watkins scored a brilliant try, searing through the middle of the Newport defence for 10-15, as the kickers’ woes continued.

No sooner had Lucs taken the lead, the hosts pinned them back once more through another unconverted score of their own, with Brough picking up his second as Newport ran straight through the middle of the visitors’ defence to tie the scores after 46 minutes.

However, Lucs retook the lead as once more the hosts failed to stop the driving maul and Cheshire went over for his second.

This time Silver would knock over the conversion, the only one of the game, for a 15-22 lead to the Herefordshire men, with 52 minutes on the clock.

Repeated indiscipline and inaccuracy from Lucs gave the hosts seven different visits into their 22-metre area in the space of around 20 minutes.

However, the black and white defence held out and when a clearing box kick found Cheshire on the half-way line he cantered in from 50 metres to seal the result at 15-27 with around five minutes to play.

With fifth placed Hinckley losing again last Saturday, Ryan Watkins’ men now require one win from their final two fixtures to confirm a fourth placed finish, which would be the club’s highest ever finish since the leagues began. They face two tough tests in second and third placed Bristolian sides Clifton and Dings Crusaders, but with both games to come at Mortimer Park, history could be made in Herefordshire in the next couple of weeks.