TYCROES product Harry Randall was voted Man of the Match as Hartpury College won their seventh AASE title in a row when they beat Bicton College 39-12 at Allianz Park, writes Huw S Thomas

The Gloucester-based college has now won every single edition of the AASE league – for elite English rugby colleges - since its inception in 2009 and former Llandovery College pupil Randall was in brilliant form for them.

Young Randall joined Hartpury from Llandovery on a rugby scholarship back in September and the diminutive scrum-half proved a constant thorn in the Bicton side, his dodging, darting runs and broken field dashes often cutting the defence to pieces.

He scored two of Hartpury’s seven tries, one in each half.

The first came with a swift dummy and startling acceleration, the second from some trademark quick-thinking when he took a quick tap-penalty from five metres out to scuttle home under the noses of the Bicton defence.

The week before, Randall was a replacement for the Gloucester side that played a star-studded Barbarians who included the likes of Nehe Milner Skudder (New Zealand), Joe Tomane (Australia) and Pat Lambie and Victor Matfield (South Africa).

The boy from Tycroes came on in the second half alongside another Llandovery College old boy in full back Jack Evans – son of former London Welsh captain Jeremy Evans – and both did more than enough to suggest they have the brightest of futures in the world of professional rugby.