Kearsney scrapes in double win
Kearsney College's rugby and hockey 1st teams narrowly snapped up wins in their games against DHS at the weekend.
Rugby
KEARSNEY College hosted DHS for a great afternoon’s running rugby in which neither team disappointed.
The visitors started the scoreboard rolling with a penalty in the 12th minute from a breakdown infringement in the Kearsney half. The hosts responded quickly and scored a classic counter-attack try through fullback Derick Marshall, 8th man, Massimo Fierro, and winger, Luke Dudley, before passing to scrumhalf Jordan Bamber, who out-sprinted the cover defence to score under the posts. He converted his own try for a 7 – 3 lead.
Kearsney scored another pick-and-go but unconverted try, via prop, Bradley Taylor, to stretch the lead to 12 – 3. DHS responded and scored a converted try from a quickly-taken tap penalty, to reduce the deficit to 10 – 12.
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The local team had the last say in the first half with a spectacular try by Marshall after some excellent play by centre, Connor de Bruyn. The half-time score was 17 – 10 for the hosts.
Kearsney started the second half furiously, but unfortunately the good work was undone with a handling error in close quarters. DHS clawed their way back into the game, scoring a deserved converted try to level the scoreboard at 17-all.
Kearsney played some good rugby and was rewarded with a converted lineout maul try by hooker, Reid Stuart, to restore the lead with 24 – 17.
DHS responded with a penalty to close the score at 24 – 20 to the hosts.
Hockey
A hard-fought win was a good start to the second term for Kearsney’s 1st hockey X1 after a three week break.
The DHS goalkeeper was outstanding and made some excellent saves to keep the score-line close throughout the game. Kearsney had far more possession as they tried to find their way through a resolute DHS defence.
Kearsney’s best player on the day was Calvin Davis as he pierced the DHS defence on numerous occasions from right midfield. Kearsney’s young side showed moments of class, as well as the expected mishaps, reflecting their inexperience playing at this level of hockey. Kearsney beat DHS 4 – 3.
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