Another sucussful mini Rugby Festival
By Site Admin
courtesy of Isle of wight County Press
SEACLOSE Park was bathed in sunshine for the hundreds of children taking part in Vectis RFC’s annual Easter Festival. And the Island club acquitted themselves very well against some top clubs from around the country.
In all, almost 100 teams from 22 clubs took part in the festival, which covered under-sevens and under-eights tag rugby all the way up to full contact under-12s.
All the competitions were held in round robins, with the top two teams from each group going into the main cup competition, third and fourth-placed teams going into the plate tournament, and fifth-placed teams going into the consolation bowl tournament.
In the two tag tournaments, Vectis won the bowl, while the two under-nines teams both reached the semi-finals of the plate.
The under-tens had the biggest success, winning the plate competition with ease.
The side had narrowly missed out on the main competition and showed how strong they were by beating Wanstead 6-0 in the quarter-finals, Beckenham 4-0 in the semi-final, and Dorking 3-0 in the final.
The team’s top-scorer was Luke Margham but coach Nigel Malkin said the likes of Max Hill, Louis Malkin, Alfie Foster and Matthew Brading shone for the side.
Though the under-11s failed to win anything, the under-12s reached the semi-final of the plate.
Dave Norman, organiser, thanked Jerry Birch, of Trant, as well as Speedy Hire, JMC Hire and Westridge Skips for helping make the event possible, and added: “It was an absolutely brilliant day, the feedback has been tremendous and I think someone above was smiling down on us with the weather.”
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