Vol 6 Issue 6 March 2007 V2.pub - Highcliffe School

The team
arrived as favourites after
winning the St. Peter’s
tournament earlier in the
year. The players were in
confident mood. They
played St. Peter’s in the
first game and with good
work from Harry Aston and
Scott Snudden they won
25- 12. The next group
game saw them take on
the Grange where the
team ran
riot scoring 54- 0 with
Oliver Lucas, Adam Aston
and Joe Marlin among the
try scorers. The final group
game was against Twynham
and after a slow start
they ran out winners 15-
5. The semis saw the team
paired against Grange
again, and once more the
Highcliffe boys piled on the
pressure to run out 45- 5
winners with good running
from Will Aimson, Sam
Jackson and Will Woodfine.
The final saw us up against
old foe Twynham but after
a cagey start the team
powered home with major
contributions from Harry
Busby and Scott Snudden,
winning 27- 10 and being
crowned Champions. A big
well done and thanks to all
team members. What a
great way to finish the
season!
Report by Mr Jobbins
Rugby Sevens—Year 9
On Wednesday 14th
March, Highcliffe's U14
Rugby Team travelled
to Oakmedians RFC to play
in the Christchurch Schools
Sevens Tournament.
Some 8 schools entered
the event which started at
1.00pm and ended after
the final at 3.30pm.
Highcliffe's opening fixture
was against a
strong Arnewood team. We
enjoy a friendly rivalry with
the Arnewood boys as many
are teammates from New
Milton RFC so it is always an
enjoyable fixture and played
in particularly good spirit. In
the 15 a side game earlier in
the year, Highcliffe came
away with a commanding
win - however this time the
sevens game evened things
out and with Highcliffe taking
time to get going the
opening fixture was narrowly
lost.
It was apparent that this focused
the team’s attention.
Some work on the basic fundamentals
of sevens play
worked well as the team
went on to score many tries
in their remaining 2 group
fixtures. Peter Crowley
really was the pick of the
team finishing the group
stage as top try scorer,
many of which were scored
from his own half! Matt
Wiles continued to use his
destructive running lines
with Will Baughan, James
Olsen & Calum Marrs causing
havoc at the breakdown.
This resulted in a big win
against St Peter’s B and a
tight win against a rejuvenated
Twynham team who
had just beaten Arnewood!
That shock result meant
that Highcliffe went through
as group winners.
In the semi finals Highcliffe
came up against Porchester.
In this game the team
played some of its best
rugby and really dominated
from start to finish, resulting
in a win that put them
through to the final against
St Peter’s. The final was
perhaps a game too far for
the team as at half time
they were 3 tries down, but
a second half fight back resulted
in Peter Crowley,
James O'Callaghan & Matt
Wiles touching down. However,
as the final whistle
blew it was St Peter’s who
were celebrating as they
had converted one more
try than Highcliffe. A great
game fitting of a final. So
although Highcliffe missed
out of a clean sweep in the
sevens tournaments, the
Year 9s can be very
pleased with themselves
for being runners up. With
the standard of rugby on
show it was a fantastic and
very difficult achievement.
Congratulations to the
players involved and many
thanks to the parents who
have offered tremendous
support to the team.
Team: Dan Hancock, Rhys
Frampton, James Olsen,
Calum Marrs, Will Baughan
(c), James Runnalls, Ryan
Dunlop, Peter Crowley,
Matt Wiles, James O'Callaghan
Report by Mr Dean
Football
In early March the Year 9
& 10 teams had their 5-aside
tournaments at Roko
Sport Centre. During the
group stages the Year 9's
finished second so had to
play Twynham who finished
top of their group for
a place in the final.
Unfortunately they lost (to
the eventual competition
winners) so had to
settle for a third place play
off. Eventually they finished
the day in fourth
place out of twelve
schools.
The Year 10 team finished
third in their group and
ended up finishing eighth
overall in the day. A big
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