Tuesday, 3 November 2009

ORRFC V OLD PATS U14's county cup semi final

Old Pats 0-65 Old Richians County Cup Quarter Final

For their quarter final game Old Richians travelled to Old Pats who had come through the group stages unbeaten. The conditions couldn’t have been better, with sunshine and a firm pitch, providing the sort of ground that the strong Richians runners revel in.
Old Pats won the toss and chose to run against the uphill slant of the pitch first half. Richians buoyed by their win last week came out strongly, with Prop Jack Murdoch opening the scoring on 3 minutes, duly converted by Centre and captain Dan Spencer-Tonks. From there on Richians upped the pressure recycling the ball through their line and when Old Pats did gain the ball, defending brilliantly with not a tackle missed. Despite best efforts from Old Pats, Richians continued the scoring with tries from Centre Josh Harris, Prop Ryan Bayliss, and two from Spencer-Tonks before the half time whistle blew.
Richians knew they had to keep up the pressure 2nd half with them now playing uphill. Old Pats started more confidently, but the Old Richians were proving to be the superior side, winning all of their line outs, using the pitch to their full advantage, using their whole line, kicking into space and dominating in every scrum. Old Pats kept pressing to get into the Richians half, but Richians defence remained too strong. The 2nd half scoring was opened by Richians No 8 Toby Freeman, followed by Jack Lewis, before Freeman scored again, a brilliant break by Spencer-Tonks saw him pass out to scrum half Harry Preece to score under the posts. With credit to Old Pats they did not give up throughout the game, but by now Richians aim was to ensure that they did not concede any points. Freeman scored his hat trick, before Harris crossed the line for this 2nd score. With 10 minutes left to play, despite tremendous effort, Old Pats had failed to score and with 11 tries from Richians and 5 conversions from the boot of Spencer-Tonks, the game was wound up, Richians having booking themselves a semi-final place.

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