Tewkesbury vs Fairford 14th October 2012

Fairford  5 – Tewkesbury 7

This game was part of a three way set of games against Stow and Fairford.

Tewkesbury were hit in the morning with the loss of five players due to illness and injuries and came to Stow with the bare minimum of 12 players with quite a few playing out of position.

This game really was one of two halves. Fairford applied pressure on Tewkesbury right from the start and scored early after 2 minutes but missed the conversion. They then dominated play for most of the first half.

After  half time Tewkesbury woke up and after a strong period of maintaining possession scored through N.Knight and converted through T.Legget.

This was a close game  with both sides showing some great skills at times and good flowing running rugby.

Try :  N.Knight

Conversion :  T.Leggett

Team :  N.Knight, J. Brinn, W.Alonso, A.Newing, T.Leggett,  C.Janes, S.Thomas, C. Stone, J. Carter, O. Osbourne, E.Perry,  W.Sayers

M.O.M. – E.Perry

Tewkesbury U11s vs Berry Hill U11s – 30th September 2012

Tewkesbury 41 – Berry Hill 36

Tewkesbury played some really good rugby against a large and strong Berry Hill side on a dry but cloudy Sunday morning. Berry Hill got off to a better start scoring three tries without reply through some very strong forward play. Tewkesbury scored from the restart when B.Roberts caught the bouncing ball and scored with O.Osbourne converting. Tewkesbury rallied from there and started to move the ball around which saw some of our faster players (E.Perry, W.Sayers, T.Leggett, N.Knight(2)) run in tries of which two were converted. The game was a close encounter in which Berry Hill never gave up scoring a number of times, again, through strong forward play. The battle continued, score 36 – 36, right up till the last few minutes when a kick over the Hill defence into the in-goal area, by S.Thomas, saw N.Knight chase it and score the winning try.

Well done boys we are very proud of the attitude and determination to ensure the start of the season see our U11s make it played one won one against a strong Berry Hill outfit.

We also hope the two Berry Hill players who were injured have a speedy recovery.

Trys : B.Roberts, E.Perry,  W.Sayers, T.Leggett, N.Knight (3)

Conversion : O.Osbourne, B.Roberts, T.Leggett

Team :  B. Roberts, J. Brinn, J. Roberts, N. Knight, T. Rothwell , A.Newing, S.Thomas, C. Stone, J. Carter, O. Osbourne, E.Perry, T.Leggett

Subs: W. Alonso, C. Janes, W.Sayers

M.O.M. – N. Knight