The Lions fell agonisingly short of any points in the Midlands derby despite a spirited performance against a powerful Moseley side who continued their recent good form.

On a heavy Westleigh Park pitch the visitors set their stall out early when Ollie Stedman converted their first maul opportunity on 5 minutes. It wasn't long before the number 8 finished another to give Mose a commanding early lead after just 15 minutes (14-0).

The Lions hit back immediately, with Lui Natui regathering the Theo Mannion restart and making a break. When the ball was then moved wide the Mannion deftly chipped to James Stubbs who found Cameron Scott on the inside to score a superb try (5-14).

Moseley continued to dominate the set piece though and Ben Pogson scored another close range effort to give the visitors a healthy lead at the break (5-21).

The Lions started very brightly, claiming another restart when Cam De Beer dived on the loose ball. Once again some neat handling in midfield was followed by a clever Mannion grubber kick which he regathered and passed to Fin Ogden on a good support line and the scrum half went in under the posts for a converted score (12-21).

Despite the home sides' best efforts to play some attacking rugby it was the Moseley pack who maintained dominance at the set piece and when another scrum penalty gave Moseley another visit to the Lions 22 Morgan Dawes stretched their lead with 20 minutes to go (12-28).

The Lions scored another superb try when Tubuna Maka showed some excellent distribution to slip his fellow front rower, Liam Burrows, through a hole. The loose head showed great footwork and pace to round the last man and score near to the posts to cut deficit to 9 points with 10 minutes to go (19-28).

Despite their best efforts to score what would have been a much deserved 2-point earning fourth try, the Lions were unable to unlock the Moseley defence and the Birmingham side were able to run down the clock.

Head coach Gareth Collins commented: ''Another tough result really. The lads fought really well and certainly deserved something out of that contest. We've played some great attacking rugby, in really tough conditions, but ultimately our discipline hurt us. Our job was pretty simple today - keep the pens down and limit their maul opportunities. Unfortunately we couldn't do that. If you give away 17 pens against anyone, let alone against Moseley, you'll be up against it.''