Haverhill maintained their perfect season with a narrow win at Felixstowe on Saturday.

The visitors has already routed Felixstowe 80-7 when they hosted them in September, but this was a much tighter game as the hosts came close to being the first team to beat Haverhill this season.

The visitors went 5-0 up through a well worked series of moves which culminated in a try by Mike Woods.

The hosts continually disrupted Haverhill and applied a great deal of pressure, which culminated in a penalty which they kicked to make it 3-5 before half time.

A penalty in front of the posts after 60 minutes resulted in Felixstowe going 6-5 up.

Eventually a penalty in front of the posts was converted to make it 8-6 to the visitors with ten minutes left.

Eventually the sustained pressure led to a short range try by captain Ryan Raffell, converted by Mark Dury converted to make the final score 15-6 to Haverhill.

Haverhill currently sit second in the Eastern League Division Two, level on points with title rivals Harwich and Dovercourt but behind them on points difference - though they do have a game in hand.

The two sides meet in their crunch game to potentially decide the title at Haverhill on February 27 - Harwich were defeated 22-17 at home by Haverhill on September 19.

For the full story see this week's Echo, out on Thursday (February 11).

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