Chris Murray was the toast of Witney after they broke their league duck with a dramatic 20-18 victory at home to Stow-on-the-Wold on Saturday.

Just when it looked as though Witney had thrown away the chance to record their first league win of the season, the fly half landed a drop goal.

All the rest of Witney's points came from Paul Thomas, who landed four penalties and scored their only try.

Witney got off to the worst of starts by gifting Stow a try. But with the home back row of Will Worrall, Martin Lyall and John Campbell to the fore, the pressure had to tell and Thomas landed two penalties.

Witney's try came when Ben Dunmore dragged the Stow defence with him, allowing fellow centre Thomas to leave the cover for dead for a superb try.

Thomas kicked two more penalties to put Witney 17-10 ahead at the break.

Stow came out firing on all cylinders in the second half and narrowed the lead to four points with a penalty. It looked as if Witney were going to hang on, but Stow sneaked over for a try which gave them a one-point lead.

The time was nearly up, but Stow failed to clear an innocuous Witney kick and Murray snatched victory.

A late try by Alan Cawston, who raced 45 metres to the line, plus Conor Begley's conversion sealed a hard-earned 18-10 victory for Chinnor away to dogged Olney.

Once again, Chinnor had to make enforced changes with Tony Wilkinson taking over at tight-head prop in place of the absent Gary Woodburn and Sam Bradon continuing at scrum-half for the injured John Vaughan.

After a scrappy first first half, when Chinnor squandered two easy chances to score, Olney led 7-6 thanks to fly half Myward's converted try, which overtook Begley's two penalty goals.

With the wind behind them, Olney began the second half by taking the game to the visitors and Myward increased their lead with a penalty.

Chinnor then brought on Mike Cook for Mike Bailey in the back row and began to win more possession for Darren Oxley to score wide out.

With the referee's penchant for awarding penalties, this one-point advantage was not going to be sufficient, but Cawston's try made sure.