Frank Reynolds again shines for Canterbury Rugby Club - finishing the season as National League 2 East top points scorer - as 34-21 home win against Sevenoaks secures seventh-placed finish

The league’s top points scorer ended the season in style as Canterbury Rugby Club secured a seventh-placed National League 2 East finish.

Fittingly, fly-half Frank Reynolds landed a late second penalty, having already made four conversions, to seal a bonus-point 34-21 victory at home to Sevenoaks.

Head coach Matt Corker praised Reynolds - a farmer - and back-rower Jesse De Vries, who represented the Netherlands in the season. Both are set to stay for 2024/25.

On Reynolds’ efforts, Corker said: “That’s just a fantastic achievement.

“Frank continues to grow as a player, on and off the field. His contribution to the group just gets bigger and bigger. He has had a great year.

“As a farmer, Frank is a very busy man away from the pitch and has to work hard to make sure that he’s in the right place when he gets on the pitch.

“As for Jesse, there’s not really many greater privileges in rugby than playing for your country. I know it has not just been a privilege for him, he has also gained some really valuable experience from it.

“He’s hungry for more, too. That’s something that we can support him with.

“The better he plays for us, that’s great for us, and it’s great for him.”

Two-try Frank Morgan, Alfie Orris and Presley Farrance crossed the whitewash for the city club on Saturday, April 27, in front of their biggest crowd of the season of more than 600 at Merton Lane.

“I actually said to the boys before the game that we were privileged that the last game of the season for us wasn’t away against someone in a game that didn’t mean anything,” he said.

“We were playing at home, in front of our biggest crowd of the season, in a local derby and it felt like we had a score to settle from the beginning of the season (when they lost