WITNEY kept up their excellent form in South West 1 East with a 15-5 home win against Swindon at Hailey Road on Saturday.

The home side’s victory, their fifth in a row, moved them to seventh in the table and avenged their narrow defeat in Wiltshire last October.

After early pressure from the visitors, Witney went ahead when a sequence of rucks culminated in second row Scott Mortimer crashing over the line.

Phil Thomas missed the conversion, but was on target with a 37th-minute penalty after Swindon strayed offside.

After the break, the home side, who were dominating the scrums, added to their tally on 50 minutes.

More superb forward play allowed scrum half Gareth Campbell to pick up from a ruck before being driven over the line from five metres.

Thomas added the extras for 15-0.

But Swindon were not throwing in the towel and another super tackle from Thomas denied Swindon a try on 64 minutes, with debutant fly half George Lewis clearing up.

Stuart Catherall was then yellow-carded for Witney, but the hosts were back up to full strength when Swindon scored a consolation try when prop Ben Saville touched down.

But Witney easily saw the game out.

Grove had an afternoon to forget, losing 17-0 at Buckingham.