SWINDON Under 13s celebrated their Wiltshire Cup success over Corsham by meeting a World Cup winner on Sunday.
The squad travelled up to Reading to watch London Irish beat Sale Sharks 9-3 in the Zurich Premiership and met England hero Jason Robinson, who signed autographs and shook hands with them.
Earlier, Swindon had scored an impressive Wiltshire Cup victory against Corsham, winning 36-15.
Scrum-half Dan Jones, plus strong running from Sam Lee and Eddie Curtis forced Corsham onto the back foot until Ben Loosmore eventually opened the scoring and followed up with another try.
Nick Cozens was on hand to score the next, after build-up work from Tom Hatch and Oliver Mangnall, and Cozens added another to make it 24-5 at the break.
Josh Molton and Alex Hawkins were making their debuts for Swindon, but it was Mangnall that managed another score.
Loosemore broke again to complete his hat-trick.
Squad: Alan Chappell, Jack Ryan, Ben Altieri, Matt Hornby, Ben Loosmore, Matthew Sanders, Nick Cozens, Oliver Mangnall, Conor O'Neill, Ollie Smith, Daniel Charles, Richard Price, Daniel Jones, Sam Lee, Darryl McKinlay, Thomas Ashdown, Eddie Curtis, Tom Hatch, Henry Meredith, Troy Badenski, Josh Molton, Alex Hawkins.
n THE under 15s also enjoyed cup success, seeing off Salisbury 25-19 as Jason Wright grabbed all four tries.
Winger Wright left his opposite number standing and scored under the posts early on the conversion being added by Dan Whitmore.
Salisbury hit back with an unconverted try, but Swindon went further ahead when Wright was put through by Matt Luker.
With half-time beckoning Whitmore kicked over the defence allowing Wright to race onto the ball to score his third for 17-5 interval lead.
Swindon went further ahead after the break when Whitmore slotted a penalty. Salisbury then gave them a scare by fighting back with two converted tries to take the score to 20-19.
But Jake Sheppard broke the Salisbury defence and passed to Wright to seal it.
Squad: Anthony Cadder, Michael Calvert, Liam Carr, Nathan Coles, Phil Cozens, Tom Farr, Grant Hurry, Joe Jamrozy, Matt Luker, Tom Martin, Sam Morley, Lee Reeves, Josh Shave, Jake Sheppard, Danny Vizor, Dan Whitmore, Jason Wright.
Swindon Under 16 thrashed Oxford Barbarians 47-5, as a Jack Badminton hat-trick, plus scores for Lee Wilson (2), Aiden Williams (2), Sean Thomas and Tom Mannion saw them home. Ross Hamm converted once.
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