Photos & Results: 2011 Renegades Rugby Day
[Updated] The Renegades Founders Day was held at National Sports Center today [Mar.12], with four matches played through the afternoon.
The Ladies 2nd’s game was the first game of the day, with the Renegades Ladies 2nd’s defeating The Rest Ladies 2nd’s 3 – 2. The Renegades Old Boys then defeated The Rest Old Boys 17 – 15, the Renegades Ladies 1st team defeated The Rest Ladies 1st team 6 – 0 and The Rest Men’s 1st defeated the Renegades Men’s 1st’s 48 – 10.
Photos by Only the Best, click to enlarge:
Update: Full match reports, courtesy of Ian Henderson:
Game 1: Renegades Ladies 2nd’s 3 v 2 The Rest
The Renegades Ladies 2nd’s got the Founders Day under way with a narrow victory over The Rest. Orla Joyce had twice put Renegades in front but The Rest pulled scores back through Sally Pile and Amber Karaz. With the final play of the match, captain for the day Susie Blasetti rounded the defense of The Rest to run in the winning score for the Renegades.
Game 2: Under 16 trial match
The second game of the day saw the Under 16’s play in an arranged trial match as part of their upcoming tour to Ontario in April. Everyone who turned up put in a great effort and the Red team eventually ran out winners 4 scores to 2. Darien Hewey and Adrian Hassell both had their names on the score sheet twice and were both deservedly awarded the respective man-of-the-match awards for their teams.
Game 3: Renegades Old Boys 17 v 15 The Rest
The third game of the day saw the evergreen Renegades old boys take on a selection of old boys from The Rest. In a close encounter, Renegades Old Boys would run out eventual winners 17-15 with scores from John Hopkin, Bryan Dalton and Richard Slater and . The Rest scored tries though Jonathan Cassiday and Gareth Dixon. A great game of rugby and played in the spirit of the day.
Game 4: Renegades Ladies 1st’s 6 vs 0 The Rest
After a defeat and a draw in their last two games, the Renegades Ladies got back to ways with an impressive display against The Rest. Melissa Field scored twice in the first half to give the black and whites a 2-0 lead at the turnaround. In the second half, further scores from Melissa Field (3) and Nicky Jones saw the Renegades run out eventual 6-0 winners as the Rest had no answer to the impressive pace of the Renegades.
Game 5: Renegades 10 vs 48 The Rest
The final game of the day was played in glorious sunshine as The Rest eventually proved too strong for the Renegades. The Rest got off to a perfect start scoring two quick tries through Lachlan Armour and Durnferd Davis, with Shauntino Simmons adding a conversions for a 12-0 lead to the Rest. However Renegades would pull two scores of their own back through scrum-half for the day Ian Henderson, one coming from good support running following breaks by Kurt Thomas and Scott Slater, and the second being a snipe around the ruck on the Rest’s goal line. The second half was however to prove to belong to the Rest as they ran in further tries through Shauntino Simmons (2), Aldo Campbell and Durnferd Davis (2).
All in all, a great day had by all with all the games being played in great spirit. Rugby this week turns to the Nicol and Scully Cup matches on Thursday night at National Stadium. First up is Renegades vs Police at 6:30pm followed by Teachers vs Mariners at 8pm. The ladies touch action starts at 5:40pm.
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