Great teamwork, supportive parents, fabulous weather … it’s feeling a lot like the season’s second quarter for the Eumundi Dragons Under 7s and Under 8s, who played at Caloundra this weekend.
UNDER 7s
The mighty Under 7 Dragons came to Caloundra full of energy and excitement and played two great games against Noosa Dolphins.
Noosa was challenging and gave plenty of opportunity for the Dragons to showcase their defensive skills.
Already there are signs of some future Dragon superstars emerging, with some fantastic try-saving chases by Max, Tristan and Eli, who used their speed and determination to help get the ball across the line, while Ted showed his fancy footwork is no match for the Noosa Dolphins.
Charlie and Zach each scored a try and new recruit Josh proved to be a valuable asset to the team with his speed and great passing skills.
It was a big effort by the youngest player Zac in scoring his first try of the season and a noteworthy effort by the newest team member Josh who, once figuring out which way to run, made sure the opposition were kept busy in this his match debut.
Well done to Max too, who scored U7s Player of the Week – Max always shows up with a smile on his face, ready to play and puts in 100 per cent during training and games.
The Under 7s are beginning to form some fantastic friendships while they are learning lots of new skills and having a blast at the same time!
– Zoe Eaton and Luke Youd
UNDER 8s
The Eumundi Dragons Rugby Union’s Under 8s had two cracking games on Saturday.
The first was against the Maleny Bush Rangers.
The Dragons started strongly, scoring three tries in the first five minutes. This set the pace for the game with the Dragons clocking up a very convincing 17-3 win.
Jack, Will, Cody and Tom scored tries and there was excellent defence from all, in particular Louie, who saved a try and set up another with a crunching tackle five metres out from our line. Alex was consistent with tackling and Toby performed a textbook tackle on a player twice his size.
The second game against the Noosa Dolphins was just as exciting, although a lot more demanding. It was a very physical game with strong tackles and running rugby from both sides.
There was also a lot of mauling where the Dragons played out their lessons learnt at training and stole the ball many times. Support play was also excellent with some beautiful offload passes from tackles and cleaning up of loose ball.
Although the Dolphins went down by a few tries, the boys gave it everything and put on an entertaining game of rugby, with tries to Cody, Will, Tom and Jack.
A highlight was some very strong runs from Cody. Alex’s consistent and well-executed tackling gained him the Player of the Week trophy.
– Dan Sparks
