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A group of St Leonards Cinque Ports players, ex-Ports players and rugby podcasters played two games in 24 hours to raise money for Melanoma UK in honour of former Ports player Nick Giles.

Southport Vets 31 Nick Giles RFC 27;

Hastings & Bexhill Vets 22 St Leonards CP XV 15

The first leg of the 600 mile round trip was for a Nick Giles XV to play a strong Southport RFC line-up.

The Southport and Nick Giles RFC line-ups

The charity side started strongly with Ports skipper Murray Warman scoring two quick tries, converting one.

The game then swang back and forth, with Southport scoring a number of tries. This was interspersed with tries from Joe Whitehill-James who ran in from 95 metres, and Warman fed ex-Ports winger Jac Evans.

The game swung in the hosts’ favour before Whitehill-James added a second.

50 up again from Horsham.

An unlikely victory was in sight before Southport took it at the end.

The travelling Ports contingent then made the 300 mile journey to Hastings to face Hastings & Bexhill.

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