By TRACI HOZIER
Under 7 White
IT WAS a day for tries today with an astounding 17 over two games against Stanley Rivers. Bailey Drinnan crossed seven times, twin brother Cooper and Rhy North scored hat-tricks with Sam Proctor scoring twice. Jai Bruggy and Lukas Byers also scored a try apiece. Cooper Ward and Will Macrae set the platform with their hard running. The most pleasing aspect of the day was the fact that the boys kept their opposition from crossing for any tries which just shows the hunger that these young boys have for tackling. Bailey Drinnan got the Villa Noosa Man-of-the-Match award and coach Troy was last seen hobbling into that establishment for a well-earned drink and a rest.
Under 7 Yellow
OUR little U7 Yellow Pirates stamped their authority today from the first whistle as they met with Stanley Rivers in home territory. Our Player of the Match, Jaxon Smith was unstoppable as he defended and attacked like a machine with no off switch. Cooper, Beau, Lachlan and Hayden found the try line on multiple occasions with some fancy footwork and length-of-the-field runs.
Some impressive tackling by Jack, Riley and Brandon left the Rivers boys with nowhere to go. The boys showed The Wolves who were in charge and came away with what was another exhilarating game. Our Mighty Pirates certainly know how to put on a show.
Under 9 Blue
OUR boys had a very physical game against a big Stanley Rivers team. The team showed some great defence, with some awesome tackling from Jhemi, Stoan, Dylan, Declan, Joshy and Benny. Some great ball running from our big guys Lachlan, Jett, Cohyn and Cody and some fantastic running and tackling from our little legends Taj and Roy. All in all, it was an awesome game by the whole team. Nice work boys! Encouragement award to Declan and Man-of-the-Match trophy went to Joshy Palmer. Joshy put in a very tough display after getting an injury, but went back on to help his team.
Under 10 Yellow
THIS week we played against Stanley Rivers at home. In wet and slippery conditions, our boys started well and really played with teamwork. Charlie Cook and Riley Coster tackled very hard. Dylan was running well out of dummy half and Ryan Fielding-Smith was busy making ground up the field. Jed Bullman scored twice, Jackson Smith and Caleb Hart also scored. A highlight of the match was Jordan scoring a fantastic, hard running try. Player of the match went to Charlie Cook.
Under 11 Blue
IT was an early trip down to Caboolture Snakes for our U11 Noosa Blue team in wet conditions. Both of these sides have been gaining momentum with good wins in the last few weeks. The result was two evenly matched sides on the day, coming away with a draw. Ben took home the player of the match award. Thanks John for running the team.
Under 11 Gold
NOOSA U11 Gold travelled to Beachmere for what looked like wet weather football. But as the teams were announced and the ref blew time on, the clouds parted and the sun shone for a dry track. The game got moving slowly with some up down, up down attack and defence. The Beachmere team, although placed further down the ladder were making the boys from Noosa work hard for every metre. There were a bagful of nice creative tries laid on by the boys from Noosa. Beachmere also came away with a double finding success twice down our left corridor. All in all, it was a fair effort from the boys. Our MVP this week was the ever reliable, Ollie Boulton.
Under 12 Gold
The boys came up against a well drilled Bribie side who fired straight out of the blocks in a cold, rainy and wet Friday night game of footy. Bribie jumped out to a 16-0 lead at half time due to their explosive centre who couldn’t be caught, but after a half time chat, Noosa came out and proved with a 0-0 half that their commitment in defence is as good as any team’s. Huge hearted efforts from two of our smallest men, 3pts to Jackson Beaumont and 2pts to Kaiden Collins, 1pt this week goes to Ethan Lewis and Heath Robinson who never give up and sometimes try just a bit too hard. Awesome effort all round.
