Southern Counties North: Witney were made to battle all the way for a 10-9 victory away to bottom club Slough, but did not help their cause by missing numerous second-half chances.

Despite having extra pace out wide, lack of control in attacking positions cost the visitors.

Slough used their physical superiority in the forwards to put at Witney's defence under pressure, going ahead with a penalty for offside.

Witney replied when Will Worrall took a quick tap penalty and the ball was moved out to James Lamb, who scored in the corner.

Ollie Smith just missed the conversion.

A sweetly-struck drop goal from 30 metres made it 6-5 to Slough, but Witney hit back again with Henry Lamb sprinting down the left touchline to go over in the corner for an unconverted try.

Slough reduced the deficit to 10-9 at half-time with another penalty.

There was no further scoring after the break, although Witney had several chances, the best falling to prop Riki Dore, who knocked on within sight of the line.

Bicester were outclassed by a well-drilled Amersham & Chiltern side, going down 37-17.

The visitors matched their opponents up front, where skipper Christian Wright and Mark Malins won a lot of line-out ball.

However, behind the scrum, it was a different story, as Bicester had no answer to the home side's pace and slick handling.

The visitors did well to be only eight points adrift after 50 minutes, young fly-half Alastair Smith keeping them in the game with four well-struck penalties, before Amersham pulled away in the closing stages.

The home side ran in seven tries in all, but despite trying three place-kickers, converted only one and missed all three penalty attempts.

Jon Hicks crashed over in the corner for Bicester's consolation try.