The game started at 11 o'clock after the rain and the drizzle had stopped. Brighton were keyed up for the game after losing to Uckfield towards the end of last season.

The opening exchanges were extremely tough and Uckfield's strong pack were the dominant force for the first 10 minutes. However an opening try from lock Tom Piessel, running from deep with in his own half, gave Brighton the pick-up they needed. This was quickly followed by a similar individual try on the wing from Aaron Revell who also broke into space from within his own half. Both tries were converted by Charlie Foreman. A third try was scored by hard tackling centre Nick Hannay in the corner which was similarly converted.

Uckfield fought back with some strong work by the forwards and some excellent support from Robert Raymond, which put Brighton back onto the back foot. This culminated with Robert Raymond going over for a try in the corner shortly before half time.

Joe Costello broke from a five metre scrum, took contact, set the ball back and the whole pack drove over the ball allowing scrum half Charlie Wharburton to feed fly half Tom Kinsella who shimmied his way over for a try. Very reminiscent of his father the previous day when the magnificent Mark Kinsella scored a great try for the Brighton Calypso team away to Newick.

Despite the efforts of the Raymond boy and Uckfield's strong pack Brighton managed to add to their tally by further tries from free scoring lock forward Tom Piessel, Nick Hannay, Aaron Revell and Nick O'Connor-Smith. Charles Foreman converted all but one. The scoring was concluded at 45 points.