BOURNEMOUTH’S promotion hopes received a major blow as they slumped to a crushing 42-21 defeat at Redingensians in National Three South West.
Lions’ second defeat in five games means they are a mighty 11 points behind second-placed Taunton in the chase to go up.
Bournemouth never recovered from conceding an early try to Warren Abrahams and fell 25-6 behind by the break.
Lions scored tries through Ben Stewart, and Neil Stanton-Ketchley with Mike Pope adding one conversion and three penalties.
Bournemouth: Davies, Pope, Stewart (Higgins 70), Chislett, Hearson, Ngapaku, Maidment, Wareham, WilFord, Manning, Seward, Burns, Ford (Driver ht), Stanton-Ketchley, Kiely (R Lynch 68).
Robert Elford (two) and Gary Graves ran in tries for Swanage and Wareham, but they crashed to a mighty 48-15 defeat at Salisbury in a South West One East derby.
Swanage and Wareham: Wilcox (Smith 48), Blackmore, D Elford, Cottrell, Parish, P Graves, G Graves, A Woodard, R Elford, Andrews, Burgess, Penney (Rance 27), Wright, Tomes (Large 54), Jacobs.
Wimborne lost their unbeaten record in Southern Counties South when a disputed last-gasp refereeing decision for “crossing” denied them a match-winning try in an agonising 34-31 reverse at Corsham.
James Mikolajewski (two), Denny Champ, Steve King and Jim Brokenshire scored tries for the All Blacks, with Mikolajewski adding three conversions.
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