Results and Reports 19th March 2006
Under 15s
Peterborough 10 points, St Ives 15
This was an exciting match, won by a try with the last play of the match.
St Ives took an early lead after Dan Breed seized a loose ball and beat the entire defence to score a superb individual try.
For a while, both teams found it difficult to settle in the cold blustery conditions. However, Peterborough’s bigger and heavier forwards began to gain momentum and eventually broke through to breach the St Ives line. Half time 5-5.
Peterborough applied pressure in the early stages of the second half, but numb fingers were unable to hold on to numerous overlap chances. St Ives regained possession and a strong drive, which demonstrated the excellent rucking of recent weeks, ended with Matt Taylor diving over to score his first try for the club.
Back came Peterborough and finally an overlap pass was taken for the equaliser.
The match swung to and fro, both sides squandering good chances through lack of the final pass, until Mark Dominey was held up over the line. From the last scrum of the match, the backs spread the ball for James Wood to crash over for the winner.
For a superb aggressive performance, Dan Hyde was nominated man-of-the-match.
Under 13's
St. Ives 36 - St Neots 0
From the whistle St Ives attacked St Neots relentlessly and were rewarded with their first try which came from a turn over scrum on the St Neots 5mtr line scored by Man of the Match Pat Nicholson with his first touch of the ball with Tom Whiteside adding the conversion. Nicholson's intelligent athleticism again featured in the match and he was rewarded with his second try after some superb direct pick and go rugby engineered by Jack Bainbridge, Aden Fry and Stephen Brooks, the extras again added by Whiteside.
St Ives still weren't satisfied and soon scored their third try, a wonderful solo effort from Scrum Half Harris Christison, which was again converted by Whiteside.
The half was rounded off with a Saints score coming directly from a scrum, won against the head by hooker Tom Mitcham; Christisson spun the ball to the backs who passed perfectly to allow Nicholson to score his third try.
St Neots fought back courageously in the second half but spent the majority of the match defending their line. This woke up St Ives the Saints who retaliated with try's through David Turner, scored from a delightful Whiteside cross-field kick and Aden Fry, a well structured solo effort.