Oakmeadians coach Tom Drewett offered no excuses after they slumped to a demoralising 44-3 defeat at South West One East title-chasing High Wycombe.
Jamie Tryska punted the Meyrick Parkers ahead with a penalty, but then it was downhill all the way.
Drewett, forced to come on as a substitute following injury to Tryska, said: “We showed a lot of character in the second-half.
“But, unfortunately, we didn’t win the collisions. They were stronger in the close contact areas than we were.
“It’s going to be a tough season. We just have to get players training consistently.”
Oakmeadians: Crowe (Davies 60), Drummond, Osborne, Tryska (Drewett 65), Hancock, Frost, Kier, Ford, McMahon, Easterbrook, Ahrens, Richards, Cameron (Wells 55), Atkins, Sugden.
<•>Swanage & Wareham paid dearly for their late arrival at Olney by slipping 25-0 behind before losing 35-19.
Traffic hold-ups saw the Bestwall boys get to the ground only 30 minutes before scheduled kick-off, and they were caught napping early.
A fighting second-half performance showed what might have been, with Charlie Parish, James Large and Scott Smyth scoring tries and Phil Graves adding two conversions.
Swans: Dunsford, Chadwick, Graves, Cottrell, Wilcox, Parish, Smyth, Frampton, Elford, Andrews (Audley 59), Burgess, Corsie, Warren (Large 57), Ford, Wright.
<•>Wimborne learnt that life in South West One wasn’t going to be easy when they were crushed 55-8 at home by Amersham.
James Mikolajewski kicked an early penalty to make it 3-3, but by the time Sean Murphy got the All Blacks’ try they were 47 points behind.
Wimborne: Unwin, Hunt, Tinsdale (Busby 55), Hay, Marchant (Hopkins 55), Morgan, Murphy, O’Bryan, Llewellyn, van Wyk, Oliver, Griffith, Roberts (Coulling 55), Mikolajewski, Maltman.
<•>North Dorset sealed a consolation bonus point for scoring five tries in their 44-27 home reverse against Southern Counties South leaders Salisbury.
Toby East, Jay Westcar, Simon Drake, George Clayton and Kip Dudden all dived over, with East adding one conversion.
<•>Ellingham & Ringwood are top of London Three South West following an explosive 58-11 home success over Winchester. Try scorers were Charlie Cockram (three), Josh Beavis (two), Jamie Sanders, Duncan Soden, James Bovett and Adam Fityan.
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