Year 5/6 Sparkling Rugby Tournament
On Friday 27th April our Oak Class Tag Rugby squad took part in the annual Sparkling Rugby Festival at Overton Rugby Club. Once again we fielded two teams, The Cliddesen Cats and the Cliddesden Sharks.
The Cats started well winning games their first three games convincingly. The next was against group favourites Longparish. It was a tightly fought match but we were narrowly beaten 2-3. With Longparish unbeaten and clearly finishing top of the group it was all to play for in our final game against Silchester, who had also only lost one game.
This was a very close game with Silchester and Cliddesden scoring try after try. It ended with a superb equaliser from Guy to finish 4 a piece. We then had to wait to see if we qualified as best second place team. It couldn't have been closer with The Cats and Silchester finishing on equal points, but unfortunately overall, Silchester scored one more try than us in the group games and so it was Silchester that qualified. Hearts sank but we were soon uplifted when squad captains Hope and Finlay were presented with the trophy for winning the local schools Norman League this year.
The Sharks team was made up of less experience team members led by the more experienced captain Alex. They battled hard and although lost more games than they won, they showed excellent team spirit, determination and hope for the future!
A big thank you to Mr Martin-Dye our coach who gave up a lot of time to train the squad this year and make Cliddesden a name to be reckoned with. Also we would like to thank Roger Filbey for organisng the Leagues and Sparkling festival and coach Ian Fletcher for his rugby PE lessons earlier this year.
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