Under 12s round 6 v Smithtown
After a weekend off you could tell the boys were a bit off, more interested in talking about new skins on Fortnite or who played better in the school game midweek.
The first half started off a bit rusty for both sides and took a bit before Bowra got the ball in some good field position allowing a good dummy half run from Josh Willer to cross first, this was converted by Brayth Ledger. Again our restart defence was a bit lacking in commitment which would see Smithtown make easy metres to put in a good last tackle kick to score. So with the scores back on level terms it was time for someone to stand up. Lachlan Johnson took the tap which drew a penalty, off the next tap he went straight through to only get run down and held up over the line. So with a play the ball 10 out the ball went to Josh Stuart who with a strong run went in to score out wide. The conversion was missed and at half time Bowra were ahead 10 - 6. Special mention to today's players player Liam Azzopardi for his great defence which might see him shift in a few positions.
The second half started a little like the first with some poor defence and a penalty, this would get Smithtown down the right end of the field and they made the most of it to score in the corner, so it was all locked up again. With the restart it look like a couple of the boys realised Smithtown were here to play. So with that they got a little more serious and looked a lot better in attack and with a couple of dummy's Brayden Luffman would cross for the next try, again uncoverted. The try for try game didn't change which saw Smithtown cross again and the scores were once again level. Bowra had the ball back with around 5 mins left and took it down the field, last tackle was called and with the defence waiting for a kick Brayden ran the ball on the last, step a couple and with a good inside ball to Josh Willer this would see him pick up a second for the game. This took the score to 18 - 14 and with little time left ended up being the winning try.
So hopefully we can have everyone at training this week to get ready for a big game against Kempsey.