IN a game of contrasting halves, Les Quennevais earned a 35-8 Sugden Cup win on home turf over St Jacques to gain revenge having lost to the Sarnians six weeks ago.

The result has lifted the westerners to fourth in the table and leaves them in with a chance of securing the remaining semi-final spot.

From the kick-off St Jacques ran at Les Quennevais with determination, and after just five minutes Bill Green, on loan to the visiting side, broke through some poor defence to release the St Jacques winger who crossed the line to score in the corner.

The game swung both ways and Les Quennevais had a series of breakaways but let themselves down by not having the support play to capitalise on ground made.

After 30 minutes, however, the breakthough did come with Matt Gilley scoring in the corner to level the scores.

Following the restart, St Jacques were penalised for being offside and John Felton kicked the penalty to give Les Quennevais the lead.

Again St Jacques came back and just before the break got a penalty of their own to level the score at 8-8 at half-time.

At the break Church, resigned to managerial duties, made a couple of changes to the Les Quennevais side in order to bring some more order to proceedings, and from the restart it started to pay dividends.

New signing Rhodri Jenkins brought more stability to the scrum and Ross Allan, on for the injured John Felton, opened up the Les Quennevais threequarters.

It took just five minutes before Allan spun the ball out to Phil Lane, who scored an inspired try after a run from half-way.

Les Quennevais continued to put on the pressure and it wasn’t long before Allan made a decisive break and ran through to score under the posts.

The next score came when St Jacques had a line-out on their own five-metre line, the ball was thrown long, they failed to secure possession and Roy Le Lièvre powered over, with Lane converting.

Following a couple more changes, Dave Marsh came on at outside-centre and scored, and in the last five minutes following sustained pressure and driving mauls against the tiring St Jacques, Dave Fitton scored.