BRADFORD on Avon launched an extraordinary first-half blitz as they wrapped up a 48-25 triumph in a game of two halves at Minety.

Dave George's visitors were in inspired form in the opening 40 minutes, racking up a 43-3 advantage.

Yet the home side kept their heads and hit back in the second period, with the advantage of the slope, to earn a try bonus point.

The first try came in the third minute when the visitors' scrum-half Tom Park burst through the Minety defence, which included coach Richard Hall.

Fly-half John Blair scored Minety’s only points of the half with a penalty in the eighth minute, but Bradford added a second score with a length-of-the-field score and repeated the trick for the third, with the try bonus points wrapped up by a fourth try soon after.

Minety lost forward Ben Collins to a knee injury but two Bradford tries before the interval took them past the 40-point mark.

Centre Josh Felix led the way for the visitors, touching down for a hat-trick of scores and booting five conversions and a penalty, while fly-half Will Slark, hooker Tom Culshaw, and wing Ieuan Osborne also crossed the whitewash.

Yet Minety raised themselves after the interval, 57 year old club president Andy Ward joining the fray as a replacement and flanker-turned-centre Tom Windle bursting through to score from 30 metres, Blair landing the conversion.

Minety scored their second try in the 57th minute when hooker Owen Richardson forced his way over before Richardson's second, converted by Blair, put the hosts in with a shout of an unlikely bonus point.

Bradford extended their lead with the only try to be scored uphill in the game before Josh Bull's final score for the hosts earned them some reward.

Warminster got their season back on track after three successive defeats to tighten their grip on second place with a 80-5 hammering of Devizes 2nd.

The 14-try performance was led by Jason Sprangle, who crossed for four tries, with Warminster 27-5 ahead at half-time.

The amber and blues opened their try account through outside centre Rupeni Rokoduguni with a typically strong run but against the run of play Devizes levelled proceedings when visiting full-back Cieran Chester threw speculative pass out wide which was pounced upon with a length-of-the-field score.

Warminster hit back through number eight Laisiasa Vinakadina's close-range effort from a scrum before Chester and Rokoduguni, with his second, sealed the bonus point and flanker Ollie Pinnell went under the posts, fly-half Gavin Pratt converting Sprangle bagged a hat-trick within 10 minutes of the restart, converting himself once before winger James Pinnell added his name to the scoresheet and Sprangle added another, Chester adding the conversion.

Second row Connor McPherson finished off a good move and inside centre Sikeli Rokovunicagi grabbed a brace of his own before Tom Evans went over, Rokoduguni and Pratt adding conversions.

Melksham were also in scoring form as they put Supermarine to the sword 53-0.

With the dominant home pack providing a good platform and territory the backs were able to capitalise with three tries in the first 15 minutes by winger Ben Brown, whose pace and power brought him a hat-trick, fly-half Callum Hurn adding the extras.

Callum Hurn stepped defenders to go under the posts for a score he converted himself.

The home team continue to run riot and quick hands out to Cameron Bull resulted in another try before the pack forced their way over with Aaron Brailey touching down, Hurn converting.

After a Marine revival in the second half, which yielded no points, the hosts re-established control in the final quarter, Callum Gillard powering over the line with defenders hanging off him and Gareth Evans making a scoring return from the bench, Adam Davies with a conversion.

The final try came from Cameron Bull.

Pewsey Vale's strong finish was unable to derail the Corsham title juggernaut as the visitors clinched a 36-13 triumph at the third-placed side.

Pressure at the set pieces compounded by seven changes to the previous week’s squad and a litany of unforced errors, found Vale in the unfamiliar territory of being on the back foot for most of the first half.

Four first-half Corsham tries, three converted, in a 20-minute onslaught had Vale under significant pressure, an early penalty by home fly-half James Haynes being the only response.

Adjustments to the Pewsey pack at half time made for a much more competitive second half with both sides scoring two unconverted tries each.

A driving maul from a tap and go resulted in a pile up across the line, Pewsey wing Toni Bloomfield emerging from under the heap with the ball.

Vale finished strongly, with a Junior Qasenilevu try in the corner as Ben Russell scored a brace of tries for Corsham, with Adam Draper, Aaron Gale, Hamish Milner and Rhys Jones also crossing, Kalif Barnes adding three conversions.

Corsham coach Tim Draper said: "It was a comfortable win. I was really pleased with the first-half performance but we needed to be more focussed after the break.

"Credit was due to Pewsey though as they fought hard until the end of the game and deserved the tries they scored.''

Pewsey coach Mick Haynes admitted: "Disruption to our set piece and team play as a result of the unavailability of several key players meant it took time to adjust to the well-drilled Corsham’s style of play.

"The second half showed what we can achieve. It was a hard lesson but key to showing us what we need to do to compete against teams like Corsham.

"We were sound in our defensive work when under pressure on our line. The huge penalty count in our favour, in attack, in the second half is a measure of how effective we were.