TROWBRIDGE opened their win account for the season as High Wycombe were put to the sword emphatically at Doric Park.

The home side made seven changes and five positional switches from the team defeated by Windsor the previous week and, after a slow start, pulled clear for a well-merited victory.

Wycombe’s elusive scrum-half Lewis Davenport nearly crossed the Trowbridge line in the third minute, an attack that saw Jack Taplin receive a bad facial cut, forcing him to leave the field.

Trowbridge cleared and Lloyd Davis opened the scoring in the ninth minute with a long- range penalty but the Buckinghamshire side responded almost immediately with a break from the base of a ruck from Davenport to score a try, which Cameron Baker converted.

After 22 minutes, Matt Howard won a line out 20 metres out and the forwards drove upfield and over the line for Trowbridge’s first try, touched down by the former captain. Davis converted but Wycombe gained parity just before the break when Baker converted a penalty.

From the kick-off, Ashley Chalk won the ball and passed along the line to Trowbridge captain for the day Dave Finlay and Nicky Little playing on the wing. He was held short of the line but quick ball allowed Howard to go over for Davis to convert.

The second half started with new winger George Fowles scoring two tries in quick succession, Davis converting both.

Flanker Matt Williams scored his first try since joining the club at the beginning of the season and Little added another before Joe Knight went over.