By JODIE BUSHBY
Under 7 White
PLAYER of the Match went to Zahn Bruggy with his mammoth goal kicking effort, sending the ball flying over the black dot like it was filled with helium instead of air.
Under 8
GREAT defence with some awesome tackles being made all across the park. In attack, they showed awesome passing and running leading to several great tries. It’s so hard to name individual players each week for their efforts when the whole team is playing so well. Our Player of the Match went to our tough running forward Lachlan Johnson.
Under 9 Blue
TRIES went to Joel Broomhall and Nathaniel Noe, but, player of the Match went to the whole team this week.
Under 9 White
THE boys backed up and played against Coolum at home. Another great game played by the boys, with a hard and tough game being dished up by both sides. This game’s Player of the Match award went to Daniel Boulton. Great tackling by the boys and some big runs from Jake, Jackson, Riley, Charlie and Caleb. A special mention goes to Kaleb Hart for his tackling and tank-like defence.
Under 11 Blue
THE boys played the top side in Kawana White and learnt some tough lessons in football this week. Man of the Match goes to Jack O’Connell who never gave up, and did tonnes of work. A big effort in defence also from Kaiden Collins. Better luck next week in our pool game.
Under 12A
A TOUGH game for the Pirates U12As against a big Palmwoods pack. The whole team deserves praise for their great defensive efforts over the past weeks, having let in only two tries in their last three games.
Tackle King was Willem Lindsay with 17 tackles. Hit-up Kings were Willem Lindsay and Kye Vincitorio with 10 hit-ups. Man of the Match was the five eighth – JJ.
Under 13A
UP FRONT, having all three props available and hitting their best form meant The Pirates dominated in the middle with Marcus Hooper getting back to his best form and Travis Garahy making huge metres through the middle with some bullocking runs. Reef Carlile spent some time at hooker today and had some clever touches and much-needed fifth tackle variation. Kurt Gadd crossed for two contrasting tries. One a 90-metre effort, the other a dive over from dummy half only to be topped by Noah’s 100- metre under-the-post match winner.
Under 13C
THE side was behind for most of the game when it lost Hayden Robinson, then Roderick Mawn who will be out for the rest of the season. But the boys showed that with two players they could do this and dug deep to win in the last minutes of this nail-biting game.
Tries went to Chase McChesney (1), Corey Mackenzie (3) and Jake Smith (2) who also received the Man-of-the-Match award.
Under 14B
BEST for the boys this week were Michael Bailey who scored a sneaky try down the blindside, Will Irvine and Kyle Jarvis who both tackled all day, Marcus Maxwell-James who ran and tackled at 100 per cent and Lachy Proctor who stepped into the unfamiliar role of fullback at the last minute and didn’t let anyone down.
