The U18's travelled to Sudbury today to play a friendly against a Suffolk Sabres side containing a large percentage of the Eastern Counties side.
In what was a terrific game of rugby from the Basford girls they unfortunately came away on the wrong end of a 19-17 defeat largely in part to some strange decisions by the home referee.
The team have now started to gel as a unit and under the coaching of Gavin and Tony they are proving to be a match for any one.
Despite coming away having been beaten, the whole team performed really well and both the forwards and the backs made it extremely difficult for the Sabres. The forwards were continually in the thick of the action and harrassed and haranged the Sabres in every part of the field. The backs at times cut through the Sabres lines like a knife through butter and only desperate defending stopped them racking up numerous tries.
A terrific days rugby if not the right result but there is lots to come from this team over the coming months.
Tries
Emily (1)
Sam (1)
Shivy (1)
Cons
Emily (1)
Player of the match this week following a terrific performance was Jenny Mugglestone
Basford Babes:
1 Sarah McB
2 Stumpy
3 Jemma
4 Francis
5 Megan
6 Tash
7 Siobhan
8 Frank
9 Jen
10 Emily
11 India
12 Frenchie
13 Anna
14 Sophie
15 Shivy
16 Jess
17 Mouse
Sunday, October 12, 2008
U18's v Aylesford
Sunday 5th October
The Basford U18's first league game of the season was a home affair against a very good Aylesford Team.
With both teams fielding county and regional players it promised to be a closely fought and entertaining game.
Not long into the game the weather turned for the worse, and the rain contributed to many unforced handling errors from both sides. However not to be put off, the girls from both teams produced some fine rugby and an evenly matched game saw the Basford Babes take the honours 14-5
Tries Emily (1)
Frenchy (1)
Cons Emily (2)
League standing after 1st game 2nd
The Basford U18's first league game of the season was a home affair against a very good Aylesford Team.
With both teams fielding county and regional players it promised to be a closely fought and entertaining game.
Not long into the game the weather turned for the worse, and the rain contributed to many unforced handling errors from both sides. However not to be put off, the girls from both teams produced some fine rugby and an evenly matched game saw the Basford Babes take the honours 14-5
Tries Emily (1)
Frenchy (1)
Cons Emily (2)
League standing after 1st game 2nd
U15's v Aylesford
Sunday 5th October
The U15’s began their league campaign with a home game against Aylesford Bulls. Due to sickness, injury and the bad weather the teams started the game fairly evenly matched. Aylesford started the stronger of the two and although Basford defended well their forward domination resulted in a well worked try out wide -5-0 to Aylesford.
With new players having only recently joined the club it needed the Basford senior players to take control and aggressive defending from the Basford backline of Olivia, Layla, Yaz and Claire forced the Aylesford team into a number of unforeseen errors. On the next Basford attack a lovely waited pass by Olivia led to Abbie Graham scoring the team’s first points under the posts.
Aylesford demonstrated stubborn defiance and was determined not to allow the home team to take the upper hand but the Basford pack started to show a collective tenacity and not be overshadowed, making every breakdown a difficult area to win. Another Basford attacked led to Abbie Graham scoring her second try of the game, breaking through slack tackling by the Aylesford defence.
Aylesford again pushed forward in an attempt to reduce the deficient but Yaz cleverly read the opponents move to intercept a long pass running over half the pitch, with a chasing group, to score under the posts. Basford were now dominating play with Maddie, Amy, Abbie Cook, Layla and the rest of the team driving the opposition back on everyone of their attacks. A turnover ball was quickly passed wide which resulted in Olivia scoring a try under the posts. Abbie Graham again demonstrated her pace by scoring her 3rd try shortly after the restart.
Aylesford began to show signs of defeat and a 5 metre scrum, from a Basford player being held up over the line, produced a blind side move by Layla and a determined drive by Abbie Cook to score in the corner.
Abbie Graham scored her 4th try of the game from an Aylesford kick, running down the line past a desperate defence.
With only a few minutes left a wayward kick by Aylesford was penalised by Abbie Cook for the last try of the game. With 5 of the tries converted by Yaz the final score read 50-5 to Basford. A great win to the start of the season.
New girls Bon and Katie performed very well; especially as it was Bon’s first ever match after only 2-3 training sessions. The fire power of our backs is exceptional good this year with a mixture of experience and new players. The pack will grow in confidence after this game and I think any team will have a difficult time in trying to break them down.
One key player absent from the starting line up was our pack leader Lucy, who is greatly missed. Hopefully she will soon be back.
Report courtesy of Jeff Stembridge
The U15’s began their league campaign with a home game against Aylesford Bulls. Due to sickness, injury and the bad weather the teams started the game fairly evenly matched. Aylesford started the stronger of the two and although Basford defended well their forward domination resulted in a well worked try out wide -5-0 to Aylesford.
With new players having only recently joined the club it needed the Basford senior players to take control and aggressive defending from the Basford backline of Olivia, Layla, Yaz and Claire forced the Aylesford team into a number of unforeseen errors. On the next Basford attack a lovely waited pass by Olivia led to Abbie Graham scoring the team’s first points under the posts.
Aylesford demonstrated stubborn defiance and was determined not to allow the home team to take the upper hand but the Basford pack started to show a collective tenacity and not be overshadowed, making every breakdown a difficult area to win. Another Basford attacked led to Abbie Graham scoring her second try of the game, breaking through slack tackling by the Aylesford defence.
Aylesford again pushed forward in an attempt to reduce the deficient but Yaz cleverly read the opponents move to intercept a long pass running over half the pitch, with a chasing group, to score under the posts. Basford were now dominating play with Maddie, Amy, Abbie Cook, Layla and the rest of the team driving the opposition back on everyone of their attacks. A turnover ball was quickly passed wide which resulted in Olivia scoring a try under the posts. Abbie Graham again demonstrated her pace by scoring her 3rd try shortly after the restart.
Aylesford began to show signs of defeat and a 5 metre scrum, from a Basford player being held up over the line, produced a blind side move by Layla and a determined drive by Abbie Cook to score in the corner.
Abbie Graham scored her 4th try of the game from an Aylesford kick, running down the line past a desperate defence.
With only a few minutes left a wayward kick by Aylesford was penalised by Abbie Cook for the last try of the game. With 5 of the tries converted by Yaz the final score read 50-5 to Basford. A great win to the start of the season.
New girls Bon and Katie performed very well; especially as it was Bon’s first ever match after only 2-3 training sessions. The fire power of our backs is exceptional good this year with a mixture of experience and new players. The pack will grow in confidence after this game and I think any team will have a difficult time in trying to break them down.
One key player absent from the starting line up was our pack leader Lucy, who is greatly missed. Hopefully she will soon be back.
Report courtesy of Jeff Stembridge
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