MINETY ended the first half of the season with an emphatic home win against a courageous but ineffective Weymouth side.

The seasiders competed vigorously and tackled with conviction but could not match their hosts up front.

Minety for their part looked sharp in all phases of play and benefited from an outstanding performance from number eight Keith Arrell, who contributed no fewer than four of his team's ten tries.

Minety scored their first try from a catch-and-drive lineout move that saw hooker and captain Dave Peirce successfully touchdown for five points before the game was five minutes old.

The skipper scored the second try too, this time breaking up the blindside from a driving maul in Weymouth's 22.

Minety's third try, and Arrell's first, came from a five metre scrum awarded after the visitors carried the ball back over their own line.

The home pack shunted their opponents into their own in-goal area, where Arrell dropped on the ball for the score.

With the wind and the slope in their favour in the second half, Minety were able to increase the pressure on the visitors.

Arrell scored his second and third tries breaking off the base of five metre scrums and crashing though Weymouth's overstretched defence.

He had a hand in the next try too, which started with a break from flyhalf James Tweedale.

Having broken the gain line and drawn the defence, Tweedale popped the ball to Arrell who passed it on to winger Duncan Drewett who made it almost to the line before he was brought down.

He in turn flicked the ball up to lock Damon Smith who finished the move with a dive over the line.

It was Tweedale himself who scored the next try following a period of sustained pressure in which Minety recycled the ball through several phases of play.

Arrell then got back into the action with yet another try off the back of a five metre scrum, before flanker Charlie Gawthropp finished off the job with the final two tries of the afternoon.