Bracknell Rugby Club’s U13 Girls team finished their season on a high with an end of season trip to Bristol.
The team has been building up playing numbers over the season which started in September. The girls and parents wanted to finish the great season off with a rugby tour if possible, so set about finding a location and team to play and managed to pull a plan together for 10 girls and families to go to Bristol.
On Saturday, May 7, the team set off for Bristol where the girls collected their tour goodie bag.
Once they had arrived, they set off to watch Bristol ladies v Quins ladies which kicked off at 2:30 pm and the girls and parents enjoyed a high scoring game which saw Harlequins defeating Bristol Bears 43-26 at a sunny Ashton Gate to secure all five points and head back to South West London with smiles on their faces.
Sunday started off with a great breakfast to fuel up for the day’s activities and this was followed by some crazy golf at an indoor centre in the heart of Bristol. This was as competitive as ever with a large amount of fun.
The team took the short journey to North Bristol rugby club where they were met by their U13s. They had kindly arranged for their club to be open as the season had just finished the week before.
The parents enjoyed the cub house hospitality and the coaches prepared the girls for the match which was due to kick off at 1:30 pm.
The match was played with adapted out of season RFU rules and these were explained to both sets of girls.
The match kicked off and it was a fast-paced game with both teams trying to understand each other’s game plan.
North Bristol were applying more and more pressure and they converted the pressure into the first try of the game.
The Bracknell side needed to bounce straight back so they kicked the ball to North Bristol and managed to pin them in their own half and the pressure created and turn over and the Bracknell girls crossed the white line for their first try.
The first-half was a real arm wrestle with both teams working really hard in defence and the attack was struggling to make many easy yards.
Bracknell’s pressure started to pay off and at halftime, the score was 4-2 to Bracknell.
The second half started with Bracknell scoring very quickly off some strong direct running and then moving the ball quickly to the wing and this allowed our wingers the space to attack and run in untouched.
The girls realised the quicker they played, the more space we had to attack and had scored four quick tries.
The game became very tight with no one scoring for several minutes whilst the team tried to work out how to unlock the stalemate. Bracknell attacked the space behind the North Bristol line and this forced them to defend deeper and managed to exploit some holes in their defence to score a few more times.
The game finished 10-3 in Bracknell’s favour.
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