Newark lock Liam Mather helped NLD under-20s win the Midlands section at Kesteven. The NLD team beat East Midands 32-0 to go forward to playing the winners of the North group at the next stage of this national competition.

RFU press release below.

NLD win Midlands Under-20 Championship
Wednesday March 10, 2010
NOTTS, Lincs & Derbyshire won the Midlands group of the National Under-20 Championship with a 32-0 win over East Midlands at Kesteven RFC near Grantham this evening.

NLD, who won Midlands Group B, will now have home advantage against the runners-up in the North group in the national quarter-finals while East Midlands face a trip to the North winners on March 27.

Once again the platform for NLD's third consecutive win in the competition was laid by their powerful pack but victory was sealed by a hat-trick of tries from winger Ryan Hough of Mansfield.

Hough's club-mate Joe Simcox scored the other two tries from scrum-half with the Derby pair of Nathan Burton and Ed Worthington kicking the remaining points.

National Under-20 Championship fixtures 2009/10. Midlands Group A: January 27: Warwickshire 5 Leicestershire 31 (Broadstreet), February 3: East Midlands 25 Cambridge University 15 at Stockwood Park . 17: Leicestershire 15 Cambridge University 0 at Belgrave, Warwickshire 14 East Midlands 42 at Broadstreet, 24: Leicestershire 3 East Midlands 17 (at Oval Park, Oadby). March 4: Cambridge University 20 Warwickshire 21 at Grange Road. Midlands Group B: February 7: Staffordshire 5 North Midlands 81 at Longton. 17: Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire 11 Staffordshire 6 at Derby, March 1: North Midlands 19 NLD 22 at Droitwich. March 10: Midlands final: NLD 32 East Midlands 0 (Kesteven) 27: National quarter-finals. April 17: National semi-finals. May 8: National final at Twickenham.