U10 Northampton Saints Rugby Festival @ Oundle (A)

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Match Report

Result:  Won 1 Lost 3

We travelled to Oundle School to play in the rugby festival organised by Northampton saints. There were 12 teams there altogether. We were in a group of four teams.   Our first game was against Spratton Hall. It was an excellent, closely fought match that could have gone either way. Spratton scored first but we replied quickly with a try from Vinnie. We then nearly scored on a couple of occasions, putting a lot of pressure on their try line. Unfortunately Spratton scored a break away try in the last minute to win. There were some fantastic tackles and team work from St Hugh's - the best I have seen them play.  We played Bilton Grange in the second game, again we were the dominant team, going 3-1 up with tries from Vinnie, Charlie and Ralph.  Unfortunately Ralph then got injured and this upskittled our team and we lost 4 tries to 3.    The final group game was against Aysgarth School. It was end to end but Harry L scored our fourth try to allow us to win 4-3. Again there were some great tackles, with George G, Hugo making particularly strong tackles. We qualified to play Laxton in the next round but found this quite tough as a number of players were carrying injuries from the earlier games.
It was a very enjoyable afternoon and the St Hugh’s team did themselves proud.