Undefeated March Bears took on Huntingdon after their last league fixture was conceded by Peterborough.
The Division One West Eastern Counties champions went into the game having won the title by accumulating 96 points out of a possible 100.
Huntingdon stepped into the breach, which saw March take a squad of 30 players to the Racecourse Ground on Saturday, illustrating the strength in depth of their squad with several key players still missing.
Early in the game, Callum Campbell set off on an individual run, cutting through the Huntingdon backs at a great angle.
His try was converted by the ever-reliable Sam Howat
But full credit to Huntingdon their scrum and half-backs kept at it and eventually a great dummy saw their scrum-half go over for a converted try.
This March Bears are made of different stuff and they stuck to the task, even despite some basic handling errors they eventually strung together a good backs move featuring Callum Campbell, which saw Ben Pyle going over for their second try in the 31st minute
But March Bears were not finished and bang on half time saw another good backs movement with a great looped pass from Sam Howat to Sam Chapman, lurking on the wing to go over.
March now started rotating their squad at repeated intervals which meant the second half was slightly disjointed but that did not stop March scoring two tries in three minutes.
The first was generated by a clever backhand pass from Sam Howat to the other Chapman brother, Todd and then the forwards put together a very good move, including Adam Boxall, Billy Robinson went over for the Bears.
Both were converted by Howat despite the extremely windy conditions.
March scored their final try created by a smart dink kick by Pyle which was flipped up to Ethan Jones who wasn’t going to miss the opportunity to score.
