RUGBY: Crawley 27 Burgess Hill 30 - Champions suffer second defeat of successful season

By The Newsroom

Published 11th Apr 2017, 17:27 BST

Updated 9th May 2017, 18:20 BST

Crawley Rugby Club lift the Sussex League trophy SUS-171004-210450002

Having been crowned league champions the previous week, Crawley suffered only their second league defeat of the season against Burgess Hill on Saturday.

Crawley, for the fifth consecutive fixture opened the scoring within a couple of minutes of the kick-off.

Wing Fraser Thompson crossed inside two minutes for the first of his three tries on the day.