U19 Colts v Stratford: 5-11 (Away)

Written by Terry Hobman

Saturday, 28 February 2009

The largest squad of the OL's Colt's season travelled to Stratford to play the first round of the Colt's cup.  The opening exchanges of play saw OL's attacking which was equally defended by Stratford .  Early in the game OL's were unfortunate to see the retirement of the 'evergreen' tackling of Eddie Prudoe due to a knee injury.  The game progressed with both teams missing penalty points in a very tightly contested game.  First points went to Stratford with a converted penalty.  The game was played in a 'stifled' manner with neither team able to play open flowing rugby.  Two OL's players were yellow carded in the last 10 minutes resulting in OL's having to defend and hold the pressure from Stratford with 13 players, first half ended with Stratford leading 3-0. Second half commenced with the same level of intensity from both sides with on going substitutes and good levels of performance.  Following an attacking move from OL's a try was scored by Mike Tattersfield which took the score to 6-5.  Further scoring opportunities through penalties were wasted by both teams and a settled score of 6-5 was thought to be the final score. However a defensive mistake resulted in Stratford scoring a try in the last few minutes leaving a final score of 11-5. Both sides were evenly matched and the game could have swung either way. 'Man of the match' was jointly awarded to: Mike Tattersfield & Tom Whelan. Good luck to Stratford in the next round of the cup.

 

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