UHS 1st XV vs St Andrews
On Saturday, 12 March, the 1st XV played against Bloemfonteinโs Saint Andrewโs School at home.
After 5 minutes, Union won a free kick at a scrum on the half way line. Quick play by Kwande Mhlabeni saw the ball shifted to Sisipho Arnols who put Alutho Cekiso into space.
Sisipho ran a very good supportive line and received the inside pass back from Alutho to dot down for the 1st try.
Ill-discipline and unnecessary mistakes kept the score 5-0 for about 26 minutes. Sisipho broke the defence from a scrum and carried on scoring a fine try. This was converted by Hlaki Skepe. Union led 12-0 at half time.
A poor start to the second half, saw Saint Andrewโs score their first try after some miscommunication on defence. Hlaki Skepe converted a penalty to take the score to 15 – 7.
Union scored another try from the restart with Sisipho Arnols completing his hat-trick to take the score to 20-7 in our favour. Some terrible defence and perhaps poor decision-making saw Saint Andrewโs run in two quick tries to lead 21-20. Hlaki Skepe converted another penalty kick leading 23-21.
With 5 minutes to go, the Union boys had a chance to score after Sisipho Arnols broke the line once more. The team, however, failed to capitalize on this wonderful opportunity. In turn, Saint Andrewโs breached Unionโs defence one more time to snatch it at the end and win the match 26-23.
โAlthough the loss was heart breaking, the lessons learned from it will be invaluable towards building the team for the season ahead,โ said coach, Mr Christopher Felix. โI am proud of the boys, and I believe we can only get better from here onwards. I wish to congratulate our junior teams with some fine results achieved, well done to the players and coaches. Lastly I wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our super crowd, the team sincerely appreciates the support.โ
Union’s U/16A rugby team enjoyed a 30 – 5 ๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ over Saint Andrew’s School.
๐ช๐ฒ๐น๐น ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต, ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐ผ๐ป’๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐น.
Match summary: Union won the toss and elected to play with the wind in the first half to get an early advantage. This worked in the team’s favour.
Despite the first 22 minutes of the game being riddled with penalties, the score started to climb as the game started to flow.
๐๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ.
U/๐ญ๐ฑ๐ won their match 22 – 0.ย Well done to Issy Ahmed who delivered a stand-out performance.
Well done to our U/14A rugby team who won their match 31 – 0.
The young rugby lads really enjoyed their first big fixture for the season.
Although the boys struggled to find their rhythm at the start of the match, it was a wonderful display of team rugby when they eventually got going.
Fantastic defense and tackling by the Union side meant that the St Andrew’s offense couldn’t break through.
๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐จ๐ป๐ถ๐ผ๐ป’๐ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ฒ.
The ๐จ/๐ญ๐ฏ๐ team played their first official rugby game of the 2022 season.ย The Union team played against the wind in the first half, during which one try was scored against them. The second half went much better and Union managed to score two tries, with a strong defence and solid ball running leading to Union eventually clinching the game 12-10.
๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐บ๐ด!
๐จ/๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฒ
On Saturday, 12 March, Union’s u/11A rugby side played their very first match of the season against the boys from Saint Andrew’s School, Bloemfontein.
The game was played on Union’s Murray Field, with the visitors eventually winning 15 – 5.
Jordan Maritz was the try scorer for Union.
The Union boys must be commended, as, not only did they display great team spirit, but a lot of heart and a never-say-die attitude, showing that they have the potential to play great rugby in the years to come.
๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ!
