ED Phillips remains the man to beat at the half-way stage of the 2018/19 season after an impressive December.

The Oxford Mail have been compiling league statistics from clubs who submit match reports and can reveal the top-three overall points, tries scored and points kicked.

Banbury scrum-half Phillips scored 32 points this month – 27 of which were from the boot – helping him lead the overall standings with 137.

But the introduction of Chipping Norton’s players to the competition has set up an interesting second half of the campaign and Dan Lightfoot is not far behind on 123.

Phillips has been replaced at the top of the overall kicking king stats by Lightfoot, but only six points separate the two players.

The former had another good month from the tee and was joint first in December on 27 with Henley Hawks fly-half Roddy Giles.

Chippy are scoring tries at will in the BB&O Championship and we have a new leader in that particular race, with Matty Wheeler the man to catch on 19 – six ahead of Chinnor’s Craig Holland.

Banbury No 8 Ed Berridge was top of the charts in December, though, crossing four times for the South West 1 East club.

DECEMBER STANDINGS

POINTS

1 E Phillips (Banbury) 32, 2 G Goodfellow (Chinnor) 31, 3= C Holland (Chinnor), R Giles (Henley) 27.

TRIES

1 E Berridge (Banbury) 4, 2= I Isham (Banbury), C Holland (Chinnor), C Ellis (Didcot), L Taylor (Abingdon), A Bradley (Henley), C Palmer (Abingdon), S White (Henley), C Newson (Didcot) 3, 3= M Goode (Banbury), T Gray (Banbury), S Randle (Henley), R Joseph (Chinnor), F Latu (Oxford Harlequins), J Mills (Banbury), G Nicholl (Grove), J Hook (Wheatley), D Cross (Abingdon), K Goss (Chinnor), R Morgan (Witney), J Smith (Wheatley), J Briggs (Banbury), J Nalewabau (Oxford Harlequins), P Howard (Bicester), W Bordill (Chinnor), R MacDougall (Henley), O Dawkins (Bicester) 2.

KICKING KING

1= E Phillips (Banbury), R Giles (Henley) 27, 2 G Goodfellow (Chinnor) 26, 3 T Landray (Witney) 20.

OVERALL STANDINGS

POINTS

1 E Phillips (Banbury) 137, 2 D Lightfoot (Chipping Norton) 123, 3 C Holland (Chinnor) 98.

TRIES

1 M Wheeler (Chipping Norton) 19, 2 C Holland (Chinnor) 13, 3 J Smith (Wheatley) 11.

KICKING KING

1 D Lightfoot (Chipping Norton) 108, 2 E Phillips (Banbury) 102, 3 C Ryan (Chinnor) 70.