Cambridge were thrashed by the Navy in their last fixture of the season at Grange Road last week. The 64-19 defeat rounded off a miserable term for the blues, which has yielded only 1 win, and a whitewash at the hands of the three armed forces.

Cambridge were caught cold at the start, as Navy inside-centre Sleeman shrugged off tackles from half the Cambridge team in a storming run from half way to the try line. Huntley slotted the first of his seven successful conversions to make the score 7-0 inside 2 minutes.

Cambridge were briefly back in the game at 7-7, as Baker came up with the ball in a try for the forwards from a strong maul. But after the Navy tightened up their discipline and stopped conceding momentum-sapping penalties, the rout began in earnest. Where brute force and angled runs did not work, the Navy were able to prise open the Cambridge defence with deft hands in the backs. Cambridge struggled to make ground with ball in hand, and were often forced into kicking away possession, showing no killer instinct in their only period of intense pressure. 

Wood, Owens, and Tichias scored a try each for the Navy, while the same drop of the shoulder was enough for fly-half Huntley to scythe open the Cambridge defence for 2 tries. A total of six tries, with 5 converted by Huntley, made the half time score 40-7 to the Navy at a rate of a point per minute.

The Navy grew overly experimental at times early in the second half, but that did not stem their flow of points. Second tries for Owen and Wood preceded an interception try for Huntley, giving him a hat-trick. A brief lull followed as the substitutes for both sides bedded into the game, but clinical finishing from Humphrey added a tenth try for the Navy 10 minutes from time. Huntley converted only his own try, making the score 64-7.

For some in the Cambridge squad, this was their last game for the university, and they went out on a muted high with 2 consolation tries in the dying minutes. Strachan did not need to use the queue of players outside him after sharp reorganisation created a huge overlap on the right, Thomas slotting a fine conversion.  Finally, Ogunyemi touched down from a grubber kick on the last play to establish some respectability in a final score of 64-19.