Under 12s Round 7 v Kempsey
With this being the top of the table clash and the last time we meet saw it end in a draw, this game was an important one.
Knowing this we had to come out of the blocks firing which saw some great early up defence by Darcy Fitzgerald, Liam Azzopardi, Josh Stuart and Taejarn Swan which lead to a big field advantage. But to Kempseys credit they defended very well as the Bowra team were throwing everything at them. Some handy ball running from Captain Brody Howle, Jake Duckett, Jake Lowick and Nate Pike had Bowra attacking at the right end of the field, with the ball getting moved around the field well it got to Liam Cuffe who would step and weave his way through defenders to offload to Brayden Luffman who then beat one to get over the line for the first try. Josh Willer converted the try to take the score to 6 - 0. This saw some late arrivals from Kempsey with one of these looking like he had forgotten to have a shave. This must of made our team worry about him as they let him straight through on his first run, coming to Brayden at fullback then throwing him away like a ragdoll but that was enough to slow him down, then with a good offload this seen Kempsey score under the posts on the halftime bell. Halftime 6 - 6.
The second half would be much the same as the first, a good arm wrestle between the 2 teams leading to some great defence and the first try of the second half to our Players Player Lachlan Johnson which was uncoverted to take Bowra out to a 10 - 6 lead. The tight tussle would continue with Kempsey continually putting in some nice kicks to our very safe back 3 Zander Bonett, Jack Nash and Tahlisha Mason Woods. Again our group that came off the bench Symon Glesson and Ethan Williams would make some great runs and defensively doing there job. But this was not enough to stop Kempsey going in for the next 2 trys to take the score to 16 - 10. With time running out and plenty of opportunity with the ball in good position some poor attacking decisions would lead to easy turnovers on about 3 different occasions. So this would end up being the difference and with the bell ringing Bowra would have there first loss of the year, which is still a great achievement for a team that every year just straps into semifinals. So back to training Tuesday to work on a few things.