On Saturday, 22 March, the Union High School rugby boys faced a challenging day at the Graeme College Rugby Fesitval in Makhanda.
Union High School’s U/13 A rugby team delivered an exceptional performance, triumphing 52 – 5 against St Andrew’s Preparatory School. The standout player of the match was ๐๐๐ธ๐ต๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ ๐๐๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐, who scored an impressive five tries.
The U/11A team also faced off against St Andrew’s Prep, demonstrating grit and perseverance in a challenging match that ended 27 – 10 in favour of their opponents.
The u/14A team fought valiantly against Port Rex but ultimately ended up on the wrong side of a tough match, with a score of 0 – 48.
The u/15A team put up a spirited effort against Port Rex, yet fell just short with a final score of 3 – 19.
The u/16A squad faced a fiercely competitive Port Rex as well, narrowly missing victory with a close score of 0 – 5.
Finally, the 1st XV team battled hard against Daniรซl Pienaar, but were edged out with a score of 14 -24.
The first half of the game proved to be quite a struggle as our opposition managed to put 24 points on board by half- time by scoring three tries, converting them and a penalty conversion. The Union team however did get their opportunities to get points on the board but could not do so up until the end of the first half where we managed to score a try through Peter- Daniel Clegg and convert it, taking the score to 7-24 in favour of Daniel Pienaar.
The second half proved to be much like the first half as we put the Daniel Pienaar defense under great pressure, the times that we did break their defense our boys struggled to finish off, we were eventually rewarded right at the end of the game where we got a penalty try.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐บ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ.
