Bedfordshire Cup 30th March 2008
Olney Under 9's stormed their way to victory again this year at the Bedfordshire Cup hosted by Dunstable. Without conceeding a try a tremendous performance by all the squad attending.
Olney U16 v Bletchley U16s First league game
Following last weekend’s successful tournament Olney u16s started their league campaign with a game against Bletchley. Bletchley started very strongly and capitalised on Olney errors the first try coming from such an error after a ruck 5 metres out from the Olney line the ball was fumbled by the Olney flanker on his own try line to allow a quick Bletchley player to score. Bletchley continued with the upper hand and were soon 19 points up, but rather than letting their heads drop and accepting defeat Olney rallied and starting playing good rugby. They pressurised the Bletchley line for 15 minutes and finally got their reward when scrum half Ryan Wells shot from a ruck on Bletchley 5 metre line to score his first try.
The momentum of the game had changed and James George ran half the length of the pitch chasing Jonny Munday’s kick. His big tackle on Bletchley’s covering winger resulted in a 5metre scrum with a great pack drive forward causing Bletchley’s scrum half and back row to fumble the ball allowing scrum half Ryan Wells to dart over the line to score his second try.
Bletchley hit back with a couple of tries of there own and at half time the score was 24-10 to Bletchley.
The second half was a much more even affair with Bletchley opening the scoring and stretching their lead. To Olney’s credit the boys did not give up and pushed Bletchley the whole time with some good running from Nick Marlow and strong tackling from all the players.
The game ended with a fine try from Jonny Munday who cleverly chipped the ball into Bletchley’s 22, chased and caught his own kick to score.
A very good game with a total of 9 tries was played in good spirit. Special mention must go to Kieran Kawa and Oliver Harrison as they were playing in new positions and equipped themselves well.
Well done lads.
Bedfordshire Cup on 18th March 2007 at Biggleswade.
Olney were the guest side at the Bedfordshire Cup on 18th March 2007 at Biggleswade. They played 6 matches in a league which they won convincingly 7-3, 7-4, 6-0, 7-4, 7-3 and 7-2. Every member of the squad played exceptionally well with fantastic defensive tagging, precise passing, fast side stepping and all squad members scored to show what an well oiled machine they have become.
Try Scorers were,
Sebastian Combes 13 - Harry Warn 6 - Patrick Worth 6 - Michael Siegieda 5 - Eliot Simpson 4 - Anthony Taylor 3 - Liam McNeela 2
Hamish Bull 1 - Jamie Mitchell 1 -
Olney Under 8’s Alliance Tag Tournament Sunday 4th March 2007
Olney hosted the first Alliance U7’s and U8’s Tag tournament last weekend with 12 teams in total playing for the U8’s Shield on what must have been the wettest and windiest day of the year.
Despite this, the day was a fantastic success for the kids and the club alike. The Olney Hawkes drew their first game then got into their stride and won all the remaining 4 games convincingly. Getting through on trys the Hawkes went on to win the U8’s tournament jointly with Old Northamptonians 4 – 4.
Try scorers for Olney Hawkes were : Harry Warn 9 - Eliot Simpson 4 - Sebastian Combes 3 - Hamish Bull 3 - Patrick Worth 2
Anthony Taylor 1 - Jake McKenzie 1 - Jamie Mitchell 1.
The Eagles weren’t quiet as successful but got just as muddy with some excellent play from all players involved many who have only just started to play
Try Scorers for Olney Eagles
Adam Grandy 3 - George Davies 1
We would like to give a big thank you to all our sponsors, Michael Graham, Waitrose, Advison, Bodycraft, Dearden Trophies, Case, Seb Blore-Rimmer, O’Riordan Bond and Abbots, Club organisers and parents alike without whose funding and help we could not have run the tournament.
