Under 17 Colts
The Noosa Dolphins Under 17 Colts played Maroochydore on Friday night at University’s rugby fields. Maroochydore was a new team to the comp this season, and have improved dramatically. They held their defence well, but we snuck through to score seven tries, and four conversions. Jarrah Charlesworth scored two tries and converted one. Other try scorers were Darcy C, Ethan D, Michael C, Matt Brice and Joe S. Co-captain Reon Fortington converted three tries, taking the final score to 43-0. Domino’s Pizza player of the match was Matt Brice.
Under 15s
The Noosa Dolphins U15’s Rugby Union team were invited for a “friendly“ game on Saturday to Nudgee College in Brisbane. The boys played really well, and managed a convincing win on the day. This has given them a good taste of things to come with their upcoming rugby tour to Cairns in the next school holidays. Each year the Dolphin’s Under 15’s fundraise and normally enjoy a tour of NZ, but with COVID19 it has meant investigating other options. The players and many hard-working and committed parents have worked tirelessly to ensure the trip goes ahead and one of their games is the curtain-raiser to the Cairns semi-final.
Under 13s
The Under 13s had a ripper of a game last weekend defeating Caloundra 50-7. The boys brought all the training to life with fantastic attacking skills, defence skills and passing. This week, Ben took home the Domino’s Pizza player of the match award whilst also converting a number of tries for the team. Klay was the ‘best back’ and Chanar was the ‘best forward’. The entire team played an amazing and fearless game taking on whatever was thrown their way. It was an awesome game to watch.
Noosa Under 12s
Written by reserve hooker, Toby Eller
The Noosa Under 12s dominated the competition again this weekend, defeating Saints 36-0 at USC. The Under 12s did not disappoint the spectators as it was another cracker game of club rugby. It was an experimental game with people playing out of their usual position and quite a number of players coming off the bench to start in the first XV. Exceptional ball handling skills and spreading the ball wide ensured that Noosa gained metres on the pitch. Consecutive tackles and defensive pressure ensured that Saints were stuck in their own half.
Under 9s
Coaches encouraged the boys to be more aware and play an open game of rugby on the weekend with lots of ball movement by passing and supporting the man with the ball. This took us a while to implement but the boys stuck at it and it finally led to tries to the Dolphins, and equally importantly try-assists to other boys who committed the defence and threw the final passes to the try scorers. Lewis, Ryder, Luke and Callan all .
We again defended positively by going up and cutting of the space and time of the opposition not letting the Barbarians into the game. JAck,Will M and Will S were both strong defenders this week.
Big improvers this week were George F and Sam. Keep it up guys.
Player of the match went to Mac who continues to improve his defence and made a few incisive runs and offloads with the ball.
