Under 12's
Sunday 24th Jan 10
Totnes under 12's 54 Dartmouth under 12's 5
Totnes put last weeks poor display at Torquay behind them to beat Dartmouth in a good open game at Borough Park on Sunday.Darts arrived short handed so Totnes lent them players to let the game go ahead.
Totnes soon got the upper hand,with hard running and good rucking from everyone they soon created some well worked tries.Leading the try scoring was Robbie Luscombe with a hat-trick,with the rest of the tries going to Lee Sandercock, Jacob Rowe, Ryan Carter, Donald Watson and Sam Perkins.T
he conversions were shared between Simon Grute and Sandercok,only one being missed.Chris Fullford was Totnes's man of the match playing for the opposition!!
Dartmouth never gave up and scored a deserved try by their best player.This was a good game of rugby,played in good spirit,proving that teamwork does work!
Totnes under 12's travelled to Dartmouth to record their first win of the season,beating their opponents 54-31.
In wet and muddy conditions,the Totnes pack soon got the upper hand in the rucks to give their backs lots of ball to work with.Incisive running produced tries for M.Sandercock(2),L.Sandercock,D.Watson and S.Grute.Dartmouth hit back with two tries of their own to give a half time score of 28-14.
The second half saw Dartmouth being let back into the game to score tries at will,until Totnes clicked back into gear to score further tries through M. Sandercock, D.Watson and O.Dobson.S.Grute and L.Sandercock kicked 7 out of 8 conversions to give afinal score of Totnes 54,Dartmouth 31.
Ryan Carter deservadly got the man of the match award for excellent defensive tackling.
Both teams deserved praise for playing good,open rugby in very difficult conditions.
TOTNES TEAM.
J.Rowe,L.Sandercock.L.Gibson,D.Walker,J.Davey,D.Watson,S.Grute,M.Sandercock,R.Carter,S.Hatch,
C.Fulford,Little Sam,O.Dobson,D.Chen
Coach: Terry Sandercock 07999 909906 or 01803 551375
Coach: Steve Rowe 07866 698469
Manager: Pete Grute 07875 204750
