YORKSHIRE  20

TRIES

CHARLENE HENNAGAN  2

SALLY EVANS                1

RACHEL BROADHURST  1

NORTH EAST     10

AT SHORT NOTICE DUE TO WATERLOGGED PITCH'S AT LEO'S THE GAME WAS SWITCHED TO DONCASTER WHICH MADE IT AN AWAY GAME FOR BOTH SIDES. THE GAME STATED AT FEROCIOUS PACE WITH NORTH EAST BOMBARDING THE YORKSHIRE DEFENSIVE LINE LOOKING TO PUNCH HOLES WITH THERE BIG FORWARDS. YORKSHIRE DEFENDED FOR THE FIRST THREE MINUTES OF THE GAME NOT GETTING THERE HANDS ON THE BALL, AFTER SOME FEARLESS DEFENSIVE WORK YORKSHIRE FORCED THE MISTAKE, FROM THE RESULTING SCRUM THE BALL WAS MOVED WIDE JO WARD CRASHED INTO THE NORTHEAST MIDFIELD THE BALL WAS RECYCLED BY THE BACK ROW, JENNI POLLINGTON THEN DROVE INTO THE HEART OF THE NORTHEAST DEFENCE, QUICK BALL, OUT TO THE BACKS CARA EVANS CAME INTO THE LINE TO CREATE SPACE FOR CHARLENE HENNAGAN TO SCORE IN THE CORNER. THE CONVERSION WAS MISSED. YORKSHIRE CONTINUED TO TAKE THE GAME TO THE VISITORS WITH FORWARD DRIVES AND SUPERB HANDLING MOVES IN THE BACKS, SALLY EVANS AT TEN WAS CAUSING HAVOC, FINDING GAPS AND PUTTING PEOPLE INTO HOLES. LAURA NASH CAME CLOSE TO SCOREING SEVERAL TIMES, JUST FORCED INTO TOUCH OR TACKLED SHORT. RACHEL BROADHURST WHO WAS EVERYWHERE ON THE PITCH SUPPORTED A BREAK IN THE BACKS AND WAS ABLE TO CRASH OVER TO SCORE YORKSHIRES SECOND TRY. THE CONVERSION WAS MISSED. YORKSHIRE CONTINUED IN THE SAME VEIN DRIVING FORWARD, CLEARING OUT, MOVING WIDE, IT WAS FROM ONE SUCH MOVE SALLY EVANS LOOPED ROUND RECIEVING THE BALL FROM CHARLENE HENNEGAN TO SCORE OUT WIDE. THE CONVERSION WAS MISSED.

 AFTER THE HALF TIME BREAK NORTHEAST CAME BACK WITH A VENGENCE, THEY RECIEVED THE KICK OFF DROVE HARD INTO THE YORKSHIRE DEFENCE, MOVED IT OFF DROVE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND WERE OVER THE LINE. THE CONVERSSION WAS MISSED. NORTH EAST WERE CAUSING PROBLEMS AND YORKSHIRE STARTED TO GIVE SILLY PENALTYS AWAY. FOM ONE SUCH PENALTY N/E KICKED TO THE CORNER, LINEOUT, CATCH AND DRIVE, TRY. THE CONVERSSION WAS MISSED. YORKSHIRE MANAGED TO PICK THEM SELVES UP AND PRODUCE SOME GOOD RUGBY, N/E CONTIUED TO PRESS WITH THE GAME PLAYED BETWEEN THE TWO TWENTY TWO'S. AFTER SOME EXCITING RUGBY AND WITH ONE MINUTE ON THE CLOCK YORKSHIRE WON A SCRUM THE BALL WAS MOVED WIDE, FULLBACK IN THE LINE PASS TO THE WINGER TRY FOR CHARLENE HENNAGAN.

 THE FULL TIME WHISTLE BLEW IT HAD BEEN A FIRST RATE ENCOUNTER, A CREDIT TO THE WOMENS GAME.