East London's rugby teams enjoyed a successful weekend ( 17 and 18 September) with all four in action winning well.
The 1st XV dominated their London 3 North East division match at the Memorial Ground in West Ham, beating May & Baker 69-0.
They opened the scoring on four minutes when scrum-half Lucas Estevez benefited from a break by inside centre Jono George to score. Fly-half Alan Ferguson kicked the conversion. With the visitors struggling against the pace of the home side, right wing Paul Arkwright side-stepped a defender to score the second try on 19 minutes. The conversion was missed.
May & Baker lost a man to a yellow card on 20 minutes and East London took advantage within five minutes when outside centre Sean Curd chipped over the visitors' last line of defence and beat two chasing defenders in a race to touch the ball down. Ferguson kicked the conversion.
The home side had wrapped up the bonus point for four tries before half-time when two minutes from the break Estevez collected the ball from a line-out to score. Ferguson added the conversion. A minute later hooker Ben Hogan picked to score after George was tackled short of the line after a storming break. Ferguson again converted.
East London continued to pile on the pressure at the start of the second-half and May & Baker had another player yellow carded. After 50 minutes replacement prop Adrian Samuel burst over from ten metres out. Ferguson converted. Replacement right wing Alex Mylchreest scored the seventh try five minutes later with the conversion missed. It was a break by Mylchreest on the hour that fed Jono George who neatly side-stepped the last defender to score. Full back Ryan Billinghurst converted.
May & Baker, who posed no attacking threat throughout the game, conceded again on 70 minutes. Billinghurst was the scorer after a break by Curd, though he failed to convert his own try.
Openside flanker Eddie Brown scored under the posts with five minutes remaining, which Billinghurst converted. George scored his second and East London's eleventh try on 78 minutes with the conversion missed.
Coach Gary Pearmain said: "It's good to get our first win but there are still areas we need to improve on before our away match at Basildon on Saturday."
East London 1st XV vs May & Baker: 1 Paddy Coman; 2 Ben Hogan; 3 Chris Hodgson; 4 George Hill; 5 Eoin Kelly 6 Nick Parrott; 7 Eddie Brown; 8 James Wilkie; 9 Lucas Estevez; 10 Alan Ferguson; 11 Daryl O'Brien 12 Jono George; 13 Sean Curd; 14 Paul Arkwright; 15 Ryan Billinghurst. Replacements: 16 Adrian Samuel; 17 Alex Mylchreest; 18 Will Brown.

In other matches East London's third team beat Rochford 3s by 109-0 in a Shepherd Neame Merit Table division five match at the Memorial Ground, running in 17 tries with 12 converted. East London's fourth team won 27-24 away at Runwell 4s in a Shepherd Neame Merit Table division seven match. East London's second team, the Wyverns, were awarded a 39-0 win by default when away rivals Westcliff 3s called off the game.
On Sunday newly promoted East London Ladies beat Chelmsford Ladies 44-19 at the Memorial Ground for their first win in the Women's National Challenge South East North 1 division. Three tries each from prop Kizito Christine and full back Rachel Edmead secured the win with others from scrum-half Aoiffe Farrell and forward Amy Howie. Farrell converted two.