Cov are stunned by last gasp Moseley; RUGBY UNION: Last night's championship action from the Butts Park Arena.

Byline: Brian Dick

Coventry .................... 25 Moseley ..................... 28 SUPERPOWERED Moseley stole an astonishing local derby with three penalty tries, the winner eight minutes into injury time.

Cov led 25-19 with six minutes to go only for referee Luke Pearce to add two more penalty tries to one in the first half.

Coventry actually made the brighter start and went ahead through Worcester loan fly half George Crook after Moseley infringed at a scrum. But the visitors took control for the next 30 minutes and raced into the lead thanks to a yellow card for home skipper Jamie Miller.

The first try came just after the midway point of the period following a series of dropped scrums. Pearce adjudged Cov to the guilty party and ran under the home sticks.

Rob Thirlby made up for an early miss with a straightforward conversion.

Seconds later Moseley crossed the line for real.

Dual registered centre Jonny May took possession 35m out with nothing on.

But he cut through the home defence as though it was not there and sidestepped his way through for a scintillating solo try. Thirlby improved.

Then in the dying seconds Mose captain Neil Mason was sin-binned for a high tackle.

Cov used their man advantage for Crook to slice between Richard Stott and Chevvy Pennycook to cut the half time deficit to six points.

And after the break speedster Will Hurrell turned the game the hosts' way with a brace in eight minutes.

First an adroit off-load by Aaron Carpenter put the wing outside Nathan Williams and gave him the room to blast through Thirlby.

Then on the hour defending a five-metre scrum Maynard's men produced the try of the match as Carpenter, Phil McKenzie, Romain Plantey and then Fangatapu Apikotota gave Hurrell a clear run from 30 metres.

Crook converted and suddenly the Blue and Whites were 25-14 up.

Six minutes from the end Mose grabbed a loss bonus though to set up a tense finish.

When Louis McGowan became the third player to see yellow the Birmingham side produced another powerful scrum and a second penalty try.

And then on the last play Cov dropped another fivemetre scrum to give their guests the victory.

COVENTRY: Locke (Russell 55); Plantey, MacKenzie, Lewis (Apikotoa 52), Hurrell; Crook, Walls (Goodfellow 67); Roberts, Merrigan, Hall, McGowan, Herrington (Deschartes 70), Miller, Pons (Bignell 67), Carpenter. Replacements: Dugard, Prosser MOSELEY: Thirlby; Bressington (Gillick 65), May, Keys, Mensah-Coker; Reay, Williams A (Taylor 65); Williams N (Gilding 80), Caves, Sigley, Muldowney, Stott (Lyons 59), Mason, Pennycook (Rowlands 65), Williams D. Repalcements: Oselton, MacBurnie Referee: Mr Luke Pearce (RFU)

CAPTION(S):

HEADS UP... Louis McGowan powers out of a scrum. BREAKAWAY... Coventry's Mike Walls aims for a gap in the Moseley defence.