Sunday 26th Oct

Basford v Folkestone U15's

After a sluggish start the Basford girls were stung into life following a break from the folkestone backs which resulted in them going over to take the lead 5-0. It took a further 12 minutes of attacking play before Basford got the breakthrough when Abi Graham went over to level the scores 5-5. 2 further tries by Abi and Abbie Cook both of which were converted by Lucy wood gave the girls a half time lead of 19-5.
Early in the second half Lucy herself powered over the line to make it 24-5 and then successfully put away the conversion 26-5. The Basford girls started to increase the pressure on the Folkestone line which resulted in further tries for Olivia, Yasmin, abbie and Layla (2) with lucy successfully converting one try.
Despite the appalling weather conditions that caused both teams to make many handling errors, the Basford girls game in the second half was by far their best yet with some telling drives by the forwards which was backed up by some penetrating drives from the backs.
The girls are now beginning to settle as a team and there were some excellent performances out on the pitch in the 2nd half. Lucy was ever present around the pitch with her tenacious tackling both in attack and defence. Abi graham chased every ball that was pumped up field, and the forwards in Amy, Bron, Katie, Maddy and Lucy were a force to be reckoned with.
Layla at scrum half gave the centres, led by Olivia and Yasmin plenty of opportunity to attack the Folkestone line with some excellent distribution and feed the backs to get them pushing the Folkestone line with some fast support on the wings from claire and Abi.
An excellent performance all round from the girls.

(match report courtesy of Trevor)