Skolars warmed up for the Capital Challenge with a 54-0 win against a determined army side from the Colchester garrison.
Skolars scored 11 tries with Ade Adebisi scoring a hat-trick on his return to the side after knee surgery last August.
The army side held out for the first quarter of an hour and it took a break from 40 metres out from Andy McLean, finished off by Ade Adebisi to unlock the defence.
The highlight of the first half was a run his own 40 metre line from John Paxton, throwing a superb dummy to open up the closing defence.
The second half saw a similar pattern. The army side pushed Skolars close to the line, but the defence held out to keep a clean sheet. McLean intercepted to race to the line, his try adding to two conversions. Skolars again used four different goal kickers on a blustery day.
Tries: Adebisi (14,35,79), Thomas (22), Price (24), Small (29), Paxton (37). Juma (50), Junor (58), McLean (65), Smith (72)
Goals: Skee 1/4, McLean 2/4, Thorman 1/1, Rousseau 1/2
Half-time: 0-28
1 James Anthony
2 Aaron Small
3 John Paxton
4 Joe Price
5 Ade Adebisi
6 Dylan Skee
7 Andy McLean
8 David Williams
9 Danny Burke
10 Louis Robinson
11 Tala Petelo
12 Matt Thomas
13 Alex Bate
Subs
14 Jaroslaw Obuchowski
15 Will Colleran
16 Lameck Juma
17 Martyn Smith
18 Neil Thorman
19 Austen Aggrey
20 Smokie Junor
21 Yann Rosseau
