U19 Girls Tag Rugby

On January 21, 2017 the under 19 girls had a tag rugby tournament at Amano. The teams that we played against were Lechwe and Simba. Although there were other schools that came for the tournament, only these two teams had an under 19 girls team. This meant that we were going to play against Lechwe and Simba twice during the course of the day.

We started off the day with our first match against Lechwe. By the end of the game, the scores were 5 – 3 for Amano. We played fairly well considering that it was our first match of the day. We then played Simba straight after this, winning again, with the scores being 9 – 5. There were then a number of games until we played Lechwe again on pitch three. The results of this game were 10 – 2 to Amano. The scores in our last game, which was against Simba, finished with 12 points for Amano and 7 for Simba.

We had some new players on the team that had never played before. It was good to see them quickly get the hang of the game. Although everyone played well even nearing the end of the tournament, I would say that Grace Kampeni played really well. She had never played before but quickly adapted to the game and its rules.

There was one time in our second game playing Lechwe that there was a brilliant play, resulting in a try. Diana did a dummy to her right but then passed to Josiah on her left. The ball swiftly moved down the line to Grace and she scored a try. There were also a couple of times in our last match that Faith ran straight through the defenders scoring three tries.

I think our lowest moment was getting ourselves back together again to take Lechwe on again. We were just from having a relatively long break between games and we did not seem to be fully prepared to play again. Because of this, the first half of this game was not the best. To go back on the field after halftime we subbed in some new players and we seemed to have a little more energy.
I can say from being on the side lines for half a match that our defensive line was not that good. I think that we could have kept our opponent’s score closer to zero if we stayed tighter as defence. We won all our games, but no team is perfect, but overall we played well as a team.

Thank you to those who left their beds in the morning to come and play, to set up, and to do everything else that does not get noticed. It was a good day.

Report by Shoshanna Ronald