On Thursday, 27 March, as the school holidays kicked off, Union High School’s u/13A rugby boys headed to the ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ช ๐จ๐ญ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ.
The tournament began with a challenging match against Brackenfell, where the boys faced a steep learning curve, suffering a heavy loss of 0-49.
However, ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐, and the Union boys demonstrated just that. They quickly regrouped and turned their fortunes around in their next match, clinching a convincing 40-21 victory against Charlo Primary School.
In their final outing of the festival, the boys faced a formidable Vredenburg side. Despite their best efforts, they lost the match 5-19.
๐๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐จ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ข๐ญ๐ถ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ต.