Rugby Match Reports Autumn 2010
U11 Rugby v St Martin’s Ampleforth v Westville
Wednesday 11th January. In our first triangular match BGS played a strong St Martin’s team who moved the ball extremely well. Despite tackling well BGS were trailing 2-0 at half time. In the second half BGS won good ball at the scrums and rucks coming close to scoring in the corner after a great run by Kit Keith. However, St Martins recovered and scored two late tries to make the score 4-0 to them at full time.
By Finn Keogh
The game against Westville started well with Robert Davies scoring a try which was converted by Jim Dacombe. Westville hit back to equalize before further tries by Jim and George Ward made the game safe, one of which was converted by Jim. Final score BGS 3, Westville 1. In the final game St Martins beat Westville 6-0. U9 Tag Rugby v Highfield On Friday 13th January all Y4 boys took part in a thrilling tag game against Highfield.22 tries were scored in a match that saw the lead change may times. The final score was 11-11. Well done to the Y4s—a very enjoyable day.
By Kit Keith
U9 Contact Rugby v St Martins Ampleforth
On Monday 30th January we played St Martins at Rugby. We started the game well . Callum Young passed the ball to Kit Keith who ran through the whole team to score our first try in the corner. Good play by the whole team helped BGS into a 4-1 lead at half term. The second half saw some excellent tackling and rucking from the BGS team. Jacob Garrett, Vincent Cugno and Toby Cook made some incisive breaks with the ball and helped to set up more tries for BGS. Kit scored 5 tries and Callum scored 3. Final score 8-3 to BGS. Well done to the whole team in their first contact rugby match of the season.
By Kit Keith
U11 Rugby v Westville v Richmond House
On Wednesday 1st February the Under 11s played a rugby round robin tournament against Westville and Richmond House. Firstly we played Westville. There were tries by Jim, two by Kit and two conversions from Jim. The final score was 19-5 to BGS. Then we played Richmond House. There were tries by Finn and Robert and a conversion from Jim. The final score was 12-7 to BGS. Special mentions to Kit for great tackling and Jim for good conversions. Well played everyone for an excellent team effort.
By George Beeley
U8 Rugby v Highfield
On Friday 13 January U8's rugby team played Highfield. BGS started with the ball. It was really exciting. At half time the score was 5 all. The second half was extremely close and ended with a 9 all draw. Special mentions go to Jacob Garrett and Oliver Black for great defence and the whole team for trying their hardest. Tries were scored by: Jacob, Joseph, Monty, Oliver W. and myself.
By Vincent Cugno
Giggleswick Tournament
On Wednesday the 16th of November BGS went to play a tournament at Giggleswick. We started off well. We played Giggleswick first and did some really good passing. The final score at half time was 10:5 to us. George B did a drop goal over the posts in the second half and the final score was 12:10 The second match was against Malsis and they had a strong team and at half time the score was 30:0 to them. In the second half we scored but we missed the posts making the final score 45:5 to Malsis. The final game was against Westville and we started of well and we scored but we missed the post again. At half time the score was 10:5 to us and then we scored another 3 tries but 1 of them went over. The final score was 22:5 to us. Well played everyone.
By Finn Keogh
U11 Rugby v Brackenfield
On Wednesday the 23rd of November, BGS went to play Brackenfield. We started off well and did some great rucking and rugby scrimmaging. But they managed to get a try in, but a few minutes into the game Euan managed to slip down the wing and score. At half time the score was 3:1 to Brackenfield. In the second half Brackenfield scored 4 more tries making the final score 7:1 to Brackenfield, but we all played well. Special mentions go to Jim Dacombe for his first rugby match and the whole team.
By Finn Keogh
Saturday 5th November U11 Rugby workshop at Giggleswick 2pm – 3.30pm
Our first rugby session of the season started in beautiful sunshine following the heavy rain throughout the morning. A dynamic warm up, some handling skills and 1 v 1 tack-ling got everyone ready to concentrate on rucking. The last half hour finished with a mixed twelve a side game. An excellent start to the season, everyone tried hard and learnt a great deal. I was par-ticularly pleased with the impeccable behavior and manners of all the boys. It was also nice to meet up with last year‘s games captain Eli Wright, who took us to the dining room for a well deserved sausage, chips and beans!
Mr Dight
Belmont Grosvenor Year 4 Rugby Tournament.
On Friday the 23rd of September BGS Year 4 went to Bronte House to play a tag rugby festival. The first match we played was against St. Mary‘s. We played well and won 4-3, with Kit scoring all 4 tries. The next match we played was against Froebelian. Our defence was great and we scored 3 tries making the score 3-3. Our third match we played was against Bronte House. It was a tough match but we managed to get 3 tries scored by Kit and myself with Louis great in defence. We had to play Bronte House again and this time the score was 4-4. For the next game we played Richmond House, it was a hard match but we pulled through and the score was 5 -4 to BGS, so that meant we were in the FINAL against Belmont B team for the cup. It was a challenging match because we both wanted to win the cup. Our team played brilliantly both in defence and attack, fortunately we won 5- 3! Special mention goes to Louis, Toby, Archie and Alex for great defensive play and Kit for amazing running and the whole of the team who played really well. We ended with three wins, three draws and no losses, which was enough to win the tournament (and the Gold cup)!
By Callum Young
Belmont Grosvenor Year 3 Rugby Tournament
In our first match we lost against a team, in green. Then we played a team in red and we won that game. Vincent scored 2 tries and Jacob scored another one. In our third match we beat Bronte House, to get into the knock out stage and we won 2 games to get to the final, which was against BGS A team. We lost the final against them but only because they are from Y4!
By Oliver Whitaker
Rugby (old Boy News)
Jack Barnard was selected to play rugby for the England U16s and he was part of the team to represent England in the Internationals against Italy and Wales at the end of April. Harry Skelton was selected for England A and played in the International Festival at the same time.
Former BGS pupil Hugo Tasker, now at Harrogate Grammar School, has recently been selected for both the CB Schools of Rugby program and in the North Yorkshire RFU Under 13 rugby squad for this year. Hugo successfully trialled alongside many other ―rugby mad youngsters at the Leeds Carnegie training facility at Kirkstall during the Summer and Autumn. CB Schools of Rugby is a player development program aimed at developing future potential rugby players throughout England. It is run by the RFU and is based out of Leeds Carnegie in the Yorkshire area. Yorkshire RFU run inter-district teams from under 13 up to full senior county level. There will be inter-district matches against West, East, South and Central Yorkshire at under 13 level.
