SARACENS GIRLS

The Saracens Girls travelled up to Letchworth on Sunday 22 January, to take part in a fixture arranged by Letchworth. 

Our three U17 players, Flo, Amy and Alex were invited to join the Letchworth squad for the afternoon, who unfortunately lost to a combined Hertford/Cheshunt squad in a full 15-a-side game.

The U14s played 7s against Kibworth followed by Letchworth.  In the absence of our head coach, Alan (Amy’s dad) did a bit of on-the-spot coaching to put Megan (in her first every competitive game!) at hooker, ably bolstered by Amalia and Stephanie (borrowed for the day from Cheshunt), with Claire (team captain) at No. 9.  Our twins, Chloe and Charlotte (also in their first ever game) played a half each on the wing, with Amanda and Eabha playing centre and fly half respectively.  With the help of a slope in our favour, the squad scored three tries in the first half, all converted very efficiently by Eabha.  Going uphill in the second half proved a little harder and Kibworth scored three to even us up and finish the match at 21 points each.

For our second game against Letchworth, Chloe volunteered to go in at hooker to give Megan a break.  We won the toss and took uphill for the first half.  Letchworth scored the first, but missed the conversion,  followed by Claire putting two down over the line (though the run up the hill for the second appeared to be almost in slow motion!!)  Eabha converted one of our tries.   Our girls were obviously pretty tired for the second half, but going downhill now and still giving their all.  Claire scored again, followed by two Letchworth tries, and then Eabha made a great break and got our fourth of the match.  Amanda then took it right down to the line before getting tackled to the ground, but popped the ball up to Eabha for her second, to give us a final score of Saracens 32 Letchworth 19.

All in all a great day for the Sarries girls – everyone put their best into both matches.  Player of the Match goes to Amanda for sheer all out effort in attack and defence.  Eabha takes highest points scorer – she only missed one conversion all day, (on all of five minutes practice before the matches!) plus those two tries.  Claire gets the award for best tackle of the day – a flying try saver on our line in the Kibworth game.  But team spirit and sheer determination won the day for the whole squad.  We’re proud of you all.

For further information on Saracens Girls please contact Jacky Shutler on 0208 368 5325 or shutler4@tiscali.co.uk .