It's treble glory for pacy Piras

26 November 2009

Harrow 7 Woodford A 31

WOODFORD under-15s A enjoyed an excellent victory over Harrow at the weekend.

The visitors started strongly, with several forward drives early in the game, sucking in the Harrow defence and leading to Piras scoring on the left wing.

Woodford capitalised on their forward power, with Nathan Lee and Ian Bukenya to the fore, which soon led to another try for Piras.

Nathan Lee went over for a third try close to the half-time whistle.

The second half saw Woodford run in a further two more tries as Piras bagged his hat-trick, while Liam Sanderson also scored.

Thurrock A 10 Woodford B 45

WOODFORD under-15s B ran in seven tries, including a hat-trick for Goddard as they turned in an impressive display at Thurrock A.

Forwards Davis, Ross, Vermaak, Hankins, Barrett, Shore, Vuckovic and Drakes all excellent for the visitors early on.

Backs Crawford, Goddard and Jones had far too much pace and it eventually told as Woodford ran in seven tries including Goddard's treble.

Foot and Barker contributed their usual solid defensive displays to make sure Thurrock never seriously threatened and substitute Harman capped a fine day for the forwards by scoring late on.

WOODFORD Rugby Club hosted their second mini-festival of the season, with the home teams enjoying some excellent results.

Woodford under-eights Blues beat Chingford A 45-30 and Chingford B 75-60.

Woodford Reds won 60-40 and 60-45, while the Greens drew 50-50 with Chingford A and beat Chingford B 50-40.

Woodford under-10s Blues rallied strongly to draw 10-10 against Chingford, with tries from Sidney Johnston and Cameron Coote.

They then beat Westcliff 25-5 thanks to tries from Dominic Duffy, Archie Woods, Omar Cayir and two from Saul Wratten.

The Woodford under-10's Green were overwhelmed 40-0 by Westcliff A, but beat Westcliff B 20-0 with two tries from Alfie Tufnell and efforts from Alexander James and Ben Williams.

Woodford Reds could only get in one game before the skies opened, but beat Chingford 25-0 with tries from Nehemiah Jacobs, Freddie Moody and Liam Rice.

Woodford under-11s drew 10-10 with Saracens as Michael Batt went over for both tries.

In their second game, Woodford played Westcliff and Dan Farrelly ran half of the pitch to score.

Michael Batt finished another move to put Woodford 10-0 up before hail stopped play.

Woodford under-12s played two matches against Chingford and, in the first, came up short in a narrow 5-0 loss.

In the rematch, Woodford won by 21-7 with tries from Freddie Hatton, Jordan Stack and Matthew Wallace, all converted by Alex Meads.

Special mention must go to second-row Matthew Dace for a great take and Jacob Janoff for a solid performance with the backs.

Man of the Match was Sam Mellen for his industry in the scrum.

Mini rugby training for six to twelve-year-olds takes place at Woodford RFC on Sunday, November 29 at 10am.