Both sides and all spectators held a minute's silence in memory of Toby Hearne a Chippenham U17 player who was tragically killed just before Christmas.

Dorchester are notorious slow starters, but today was different and they started confidently, this assisted by the fact that they didn't concede a penalty for 15 minutes, instead it was the hosts who were the culprits early on. A series of penalties in their half allowed Dorchester to exert early pressure and from a series of line outs in the home 22, allowed the visitors to create attacking mauls and they were rewarded when prop Joe Underhill got the important touchdown. Harry Smith added the conversion from out wide. From the restart Bournemouth pressed but were unable to get through, a loose pass was intercepted by Max Buckler who ran 70 meters before off loading to Kieran Fry in support who had the easiest of run ins, unfortunately the conversion drifted wide.

At this point Dorchester were by far the dominant side, and with Bournemouth conceding penalties at will it all seemed one sided, however a penalty from half way by Dorchester failed to make touch, with the Bournemouth winger alert to this he ran 50 meters as Dorchester looked on score 5-12. Back came the visitors playing some of their best rugby so far this season, with some great offloading Dorchester kept the ball alive a short pass by Buckler to Will Holmes saw the latter carve open the home defence and in under the posts for a converted score. Once again the visitors allowed Bournemouth back in the game with some poor communication in defence allowing the home side to get a converted try to pull back to 12-19. That however wasn't the final score of the half; with Bournemouth continuing to infringe Smith stepped up and slotted a 30-metre penalty half time 12-22.

The second was a scrappy affair and it was Dorchesters turn to concede numerous penalties, (the feeling in both camps was it more of the referee trying to even up the penalty camp) consequently no continuity was allowed and with Bournemouth turning down the opportunity for a number of simple kicks instead opting to go for a try they were ultimately disappointed as all they got was an unconverted score, and with Dorchesters defence operating well they couldn't break it down, and Dorchester were worthy victors in another well fought contest.

Director of Rugby Steve Underhill was a pleased man after the match and the result sees his side leapfrog Bournemouth to 4th place in the league.