WORCESTER Wanderers visited Midlands One West leaders Burton and found themselves 18 points in arrears following a rampaging performance from the Derbyshire club during the opening quarter but they hit back to win 34-21.

FortunatelyWanderers didn’t panic and began to put some solid passages of play together. Tom Biggs was orchestrating territorial position and Burton were starting to spend some time in their own half.

Biggs narrowly missed a penalty shot but, from the ‘22’ drop, Worcester went on the attack again and Mike Dodge was beaten to the touchdown following a deft kick infield.

The restart went deep and Paul Burton took the ball at speed and ran it back. With the first Burton tackler beaten, Burton slipped a pass to the supporting James Aston who went outside a defender before cutting back infield and wrong-footing the full-back to score under the posts, Biggs converting.

Within minutes Aston turned provider after more strong running he unselfishly fed Alex Crawshaw who went over under the posts, Biggs again converting.

The home side were shocked but regained their composure and slotted a penalty to stretch their lead to 21-14 at the interval.

It was the Wanderers who started the second-half reinvigorated and full of belief.

Biggs was pushing the big Burton forwards back with some excellent positional kicking and the Worcester scrum seized the initiative.

James Aston scored his second try to move the Wanderers to within two points. Burton were still dangerous and threatened several times but the visitors’ scramble -defence was up to it.

Burton were starting to give away penalties as the pressure told and Biggs took advantage to give the Wanderers an attacking line-out from which the forwards drove over the try line for Jacob Saddington to touch down near the posts. Biggs converted so Wanderers had their noses in front for the first time.

During this period Wanderers scored a fine team try which began just inside their own half with a turnover.

Crawshaw and Biggs saw the opportunity and moved the ball quickly to midfield were Tom Dodge created the space to enable brother Mike to make ground up to the Burton line before off-loading to the supporting Ben Rhodes who crashed over.

The scoring was completed with a Biggs penalty to earn Wanderers a hard fought victory which sees them in fourth place in the table.