On a beautiful crisp, sunny autumnal afternoon, Whitecraigs were up against the well travelled visitors from Caithness. The conditions were suited to fast open rugby and the crowd were not disappointed when scrum half Stuart Henderson crossed the visitors line within two minutes of the kick off. Caithness immediately replied with a penalty.

Jamie Howarth then scored the first of his hat trick of tries and Caithness again responded with a penalty. Craigs were playing fast fluent rugby and the visitors were struggling to cope and tries were coming at regular intervals. Further tries from Howarth, debutant Alan McLeod first of his three, Ben Blamire, Ian Laidlaw and Phil Nicol brought the half time score to 45-9 for the home side.

Inevitably Whitecraigs could not keep up this pace and the first period of the second half was much more competitive, with Caithness courageously testing the home defence. Whitecraigs then scored 2 tries through Howarth and McLeod and then the best try of the day was scored by Caithness. Defending under their own posts, the stand off made a break, passed and then looped round, took a pass and then off loaded and was involved twice more as a try was scored under the posts. Unfortunately for Caithness they had a man sent off shortly afterwards and Whitecraigs scored three more tries through Graeme Fisher, Jamie Christine and McLeod. Ryan Moffat converted 7 of the 12 tries to make the final score 74-10 to the home side.

Coach Jim Henderson was understandingly pleased with the points tally but will remind his players at training during the week that rugby is a 15 man team game. Whitecraigs are off to Newton Stewart next weekend and hoping for another win to keep their position at the top of the league at halfway point of the season.