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Day 2 was another success beginning
Girls, Under 14, Under 17 Events.
The U16 Boys tournament was a very close run affair
between East Grinstead - Sussex - Haywards Heath -
Eastbourne. This was eventually won by Haywards Heath who
played some superb rugby during the course of the
afternoon. We would also like to wish the Sussex team
every success in their forth coming Tour of Australia.
Ten Ladies Teams then competed for the Steve Cairns Ladies
Trophy. The semi finals saw The Pink Ba-Ba's beat Brighton
University 2 50-0 whilst Old Caterhamians just manged
to get through to the final with a close 21-19 win over
Romford Ravens 1.
There is no doubt, from watching them, that the Pink Ba-ba's
are a very strong side and their convincing win of 59-0
over Old Caterhamians provided a demonstration of
entertaining Ladies Rugby to a very high standard .
Those who did not make it through the first round had the
plate contest to look forward to. Kilburn Cosmos and
Brighton University met in the Semi-Finals with Kilburn
Cosmos winning a convincing 36-0. This was followed by
Worthing coming out ahead in the second Semi Final with a
12-0 win over East Grinstead 2.
The final was a well fought game with Kilburn Cosmos
beating Worthing 14-5 and receiving the Plate Trophy
It just remains to add a comment about "Joy and Pain" from
one of the stalwart referees of the day Bill Blackledge.
Bill had to referee both the Ladies Cup Semi-Final & Final
as there was a serious shortage of referees! The joy was
two bottles of bubbly from EGRFC, the pain came at a
dinner Bill attended on Saturday evening when at 10.00pm
with severe cramp in the left leg Bill apparently leapt up
from his seat in front of 30 people shouting Ah, Ah,
Ah! As one can imagine this caused something of a stir,
hopefully Bill was able to explain the reason for his pain
between Ah's.
This was followed by presentations for
the Junior Sections and a Party in the
Marquee in the evening, which was enjoyed by all.
The evening saw the formation of a new Sevens Side not
mentioned in the original profiles. The Fat Boys. Such
teams are only formed when the tournament organiser waits
until gone 11pm on the party night before mentioning that
a team has dropped out. Of course lots of volunteers,
whose judgement may have been impared, were seen to step
forward with Mitch Knight at the head. Mitch was still try
to collect volunteers on the Sunday morning. Desperation
even led him to ask the Webmaster who fortunately is old
enough to know better and declined (luckily he also had
no kit with him)! But Mitch did manage to persuade Tony
Makolski who was seen limping towards the massage tent
after the first run out! Luckily they did not meet the
British Army otherwise I think the girls in the massage
tent would have definately had their work cut out for
them.
For those who couldn't make it you can get some idea of the
fun that was had by viewing the following
photographs, which were kindly taken by John
O'Brien of First Focus Photo. If you are interested in
quality copies or to see lots more shots taken on the day
please visit their website
http://www.firstfocusphoto.com
And of course the President and Chairman of EGRFC were there but still not the ones running around!!
Please select
Sunshine Sevens Report
to see other information about the weekends activities.
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