Basford Girls turn out for County side

Sunday 9th Nov 08

Last sunday saw members of the Basford teams turn out for the respective County squads at U15's & U18's.

U18's
The opposition for this round of County games was local rivals Eastern Counties who had amongst their squad many of the girls who played for Suffolk Sabres in the recent friendly win over Basford.
Without Captain Sarah MCB, Siobhan Franklin, and Jess Wilkins due to injuries or illness the girls were determined to exact revenge for the club defeat and they took the game to Eastern Counties from the off and only some desperate defending kept the Essex girls at bay.
With the majority of play taking place in the Eastern Counties final 10, it was only a matter of time before the continued pressure paid off with Scottie going over to score the first try 5-0 and duly converting the kick 7-0.
No sooner had play restarted when the Essex girls steamed back up field with the forwards taking the ball back into the E Counties 10 where a quick ball out to Fi saw her go over to make it 12-0.
Each attempt by E Counties to take play into the Essex half was quickly halted by some excellent tackling from Stumpy, Jemma, Frances and Meg in the forwards with the twins Frank and Fi causing problems for E Counties every time they got the ball.
Jen continually harassed the opposing scrum half and some quick ball out to Scottie soon had India, Frenchie, Sophie and Anna running at the E Counties line.The pressure again soon paid off with Frank going over to make it 17-0.
Turning round at half time, the E Counties girls made a rare foray into the Essex final 10 which was quickly halted again by some superb tackling and the inevitable 4th try soon followed when Scotty went over for her 2nd try to make it 22-0.
Some excellent line out play from the girls who were lifting Kez continually gave the centres the opportunity to run at E Counties defence.
A momentary slip in concentration allowed the E Counties girls to feed the ball out to the wings and run in a try to make it 22-5.
This seemed to spur the girls who quickly went back up the field and scored another well worked try for Franks 2nd of the day with Scottie converting to make it 29-5.
Just before the final whistle, an excellent break from shivvy broke the E Counties line and she ran almost to the line before being dragged down but Scottie was on her shoulder and a quick pop pass saw Scottie go over for her 3rd 34-5.

A fantastic performance from all the girls and a big thanks to Eastern Counties for making a good game of it.

The U15's won their game 55-0 however we are still awaiting the match report which will be posted asap