Dorchester 1st XV 15 Frome 1st XV 39

Frome went into this tough away fixture on Saturday needing to get their promotion hopes back on track.

The early exchanges were evenly matched and the home side opened the scoring with a well-struck penalty.

This sparked Frome into life and they started to show why they are top of the league.

A pinpoint restart from the impressive Keith Norris let Phil Meenan lead the chase and recover the ball for Frome, and after several slick phases the home side conceded a penalty which Garrie Webster took quickly and passed to Simon Westlake, who finishing smartly to give Frome a 5-3 lead.

The visitors were now in control and, after excellent ball retention, Jamie Little touched down from close range directly from the base of a ruck.

This was followed by the score of the day when Pete Dickens and Gavin Knight interchanged well and fed captain Kris Baldy, who committed several defenders before showing great awareness to move the ball wide to Jake Babb.

He smashed through his opposite winger and gave a brilliant pass to Jamie MacDonald, who committed the full-back to put Will Button over the line.

From the resulting kick-off, a mix-up let Dorchester gather the ball and work it well to score out wide.

But Frome were to have the final say of the half as more great team play saw MacDonald go in for a score of his own which left the half-time score at 20-8.

The second half continued in a similar fashion to most of the first, with Frome on the front foot.

Early in the half Norris fed Babb a short pop into the heart of the home defence and he smashed through and scored under the posts. Neil Collis converted.

Not to be outdone by his fellow winger, Collis showed why he is competing to be the top try scorer in all leagues across England when he collected the ball out wide, beat his opposite man and chipped the ball over the full-back and gathered to score under the posts, before converting his own try.

The final score from Frome came from Baldy when a well executed lineout move released the skipper down the blindside from five metres out with only a winger to beat.

With the game seemingly won, Frome took their foot off the accelerator and Dorchester started to play with some good structure, adding a late converted try.