Match Reports
Sevenoaks U17s 20 North Walsham U17s 11
29 Mar 2010
Mighty Oaks do the double!
squad won the London and South East divisional plate competition beating a
strong Norfolk team on Sunday in Middlesex. The squad now qualify to
represent Kent and
the London division in the National semi final on April 18th, a feat not
achieved in the club's history.
North Walsham started the stronger making a number of breaks through their
impressive backline; only a couple of interceptions from George Beale
kept them from scoring. Sevenoaks, showing 5 changes, two positional, from
last week took time to settle and North Walsham duly took the lead with a
penalty
after a number of infringements by the Sevenoaks forwards.
This seemed to galvanise the Oaks as they used the elements and slope to
camp in the oppositions half. Following excellent linout work by Johnson and
Medhurst, the ball went through 5 phases before openside flanker, Will De
Smith, went over in the corner. Sevenoaks, now dominating all aspects tore
into the opposition with gusto and Will De Smith scored again in the corner,
converted by Ollie Shirtcliff from the touchline. Charlie Roberts then ended
a sweeping move to crash over from full back to bring the score to 17 - 6 at
half time.
The second half started well for North Walsham but they couldnt break down
the Oaks defence until they scored a well worked try late on. Just before
this, Sevenoaks had worked there way up the pitch and after a series of
drives had been repelled, Ollie Shirtcliff dropped a goal to keep the game
out of reach. The final score was 20-11.
U17s squad: Charlie Roberts, Freddie Tan, Dan Foley, George Beale, Charlie
Nohe, Ollie Shirtcliff, Seb Goodhew, Jasper Thompson, Adam King, Jack
Walker, Joe Johnson, Alex Hadi, Will Hunt, Zandy Medhurst (Capt), Will De
Smith, Tom Smith, Tom Lonnergan,Matt Gill.
NB Jamie Owen, who normally playes full back for the U17s, was one of only 3
players out of 30 to be selected for the Welsh Exiles on Sunday.