Wednesday, October 22, 2008

St. Faiths vs. Norwich

When we arrived at Norwich, we saw our opponents warming up. Some players on our team thought they looked horrible. Then Jo Whitelock, the other second rower, said, " Remember our match against Wellingborough. We thought they were bad, and then they creamed us." He was referring to an earlier match we played against a school called Wellingborough in the Midlands. After that we forgot about it entirely.

The match started out favoring Norwich in the first minute or so. But then we held them at about midfield for 15 minutes until their inside center dodged our back line and sprinted down for the try. Then it was halftime. Our coach said our tackling was so-so, but that our running and our scrums were great. He also said that the forwards needed to get to the rucks.

In the second half, we were on fire. Our first try was scored when after a long series of plays, our brilliant left wing Will (or 'Lightning' as we call him) ran 10 yards while narrowly avoiding the touch line. The next try was scored by Joseph, a second rower who broke through just about 10 tackles before scoring. Then our star outside center picked up the ball from a ruck and ran 15 yards to score. Then our loosehead prop Max ploughed through their defense for 5 yards to score the try that polished it off. The final score was 27-7 to St.Faiths.

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