Alton finished their league programme with a victory against USP, the second time that the clubs have met this season and a second win for the Red Bellies.

Unavailabilities, illness and non-appearances saw the Alton squad reduced from its normal 26+ to a bare 16 but this did not affect the performance of the players on the day as one minute into the match, inside centre Cameron Wicks strolled through some innefectual USP tackling to score wide out on the left hand side, Wicks himself missing the attempted conversion.
Two minutes later and winger Jack Farr scored in an almost identical position (Dylan Saralis converting) to give the home side a 12-0 advantage.
 
A further score was added 10 minutes later by Ben Turner (Wicks adding the 'extras') and a further 10 minutes later saw captain Arran Watkins picking from the base of the scrum from a 5m set piece to easily score, no conversion.
Just before half time Farr added his second try of the game (missed conversion) to make the half time score 29-0.
 
A loss of pewerhouse and demon tackler Will Foster at half time due to an injured thumb saw the home side using their whole complement of players at one time.
 
The second half saw a series of scores, evenly spaced out over the 30 minutes, from flanker Jack Pinto, full back Nathan Ward, Wicks and Watkins - a single conversion by Sarralis for Cameron's try - making the final score 51-0 to the boys in the red strip.
 
Alton even finished the game with 14 players as Farr went off with a 'stinger' injury to his shoulder, tackled in full flight towards the try line and having to retire.
 
Although USP tried hard to gain forward movement, lack of team interplay and cohesion saw too many blue-shirted players isolated and brought to ground, thus enabling Alton to regain possession and work the ball across the park to the ever-hungry back line.
 
The Alton play was slick in the backs, with ball handling along the line continually stretching the USP defence and enabling the wingers to have a run at their opposite numbers.
 
And thus endeth another league season, with only two friendly matches remaining along with the Alton 7's.