Monday, December 12, 2005

Match Report v Westcliff (h) Win 38-0


Brentwood U14 38 Westcliff U14 0
Report By Becky Bassenger


Brentwood seal 6th straight win…




Brentwood again came racing out of the blocks in the opening five minutes after a lovely catch and run from Rob from the kick off. The forwards recycled quickly and the backs produced a dazzling move with good hands which saw Jake Eagleton, round on the loop, over for the first try. Stuart Frith kicked the conversion, 7-0 Brentwood.
Unfortunately soon after the try play had to be stopped when Jordan Hill took a crunching tackle from Westcliff and went down with a potential back injury. Fortunately however it was not serious and play resumed.
Soon after play resuming Brentwood worked their way deep into the Westcliff 22 where eventually William Bassenger, devastating from a metre, picked up and drove over. The conversion was fairly straight forward and Stuart kicked it, 14-0 Brentwood.
Brentwood continued to pressurise until the end of the quarter but the Westcliff defence held very firm.
In the second quarter Westcliff were immediately under pressure again as from the restart Chris Doble put in a great chase and hit his man hard. The ball spilled lose and a good pick up and run by Matt Smith put Adam Mathias over in the corner. Stuart was unlucky to hit the post with the tricky conversion, 19-0 Brentwood.
Westcliff put up a lovely high restart enabling their players to get underneath it for a chance to compete but Ollie caught it very well under a lot of pressure. From then on however the play got quite messy with the ball going lose quite often and the score remained the same at half time.
After half time Westcliff pressurised Brentwood and very nearly scored when the ball was chipped through however Jake managed to collect and clear well. Following his clearance, Jake made a good run and put Chris Doble over near the posts. Stuart again converted, 26-0.
After a stern talking to from the ref following some punches being throw, Brentwood mauled their way to the line where they were just held up. Eventually, after a lot of strong defending from Westcliff, Chris McCarthy was bundled over the line. Stuart missed the conversion leaving the score 31-0 to Brentwood.
The last score of the game came after some strong running from the wing Sam and also from Joel Ison which again took Brentwood to within metres of the try line. A maul was set up and this time did make it over the line although the forwards were some what miffed when a back, Joel Ison, emerged with the ball to claim the score! Stuart kicked the conversion and the score was 38-0.
The final quarter belonged to Westcliff as they attacked the Brentwood line again and again leaving Brentwood to keep defending but the defence held strong until the final whistle despite enormous pressure from Westcliff.
A lineout during the Westcliff Game (click on picture)

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