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A hard fought battle to start off the season
15 maj, 21:13 0 kommentarer
The opening game of the season against Erikslund was a hard fought battle, with both teams coming out strong. Uppsala got off to a quick start, with James Oakley scoring the first try just 6 minutes into the game. Uppsala made an impressive break off a line out, with Nils taking the ball as it came off the top and carrying it through the defensive line. In the next phase, Uppsala executed a beautiful looping play, culminating in James getting the ball and beating Erikslund on the wing.
Unfortunately there were several penalties given away in the first half by Uppsala, and Erikslund were able to pick up 9 points from penalty kicks. However, Uppsala were able to hold Erikslund off from scoring any tries with a phenomenal effort on the defensive side. The half finished at 5-9 in Erikslund’s favour.
The second half started slow for both teams, with no points being scored for the first 10 minutes. However before long Uppsala won a scrum, ending in the ball being shipped down the hands to Gustav on the wing. Gustav caught the ball at the halfway line and ran the length of the pitch to score Uppsala’s second try, breaking through several tackles on the way. Uppsala were now up 10-9. However after a handling error from Erikslund's kickoff, Uppsala conceded a quick try off the scrum. This try proved to shift the momentum of the game, and Erikslund would go on to score 2 more tries in the next 20 minutes, despite a strong effort on defence by Uppsala. After coming painfully close to scoring a last minute try, Uppsala unfortunately made another handling error on the Erikslund try line, and the final whistle blew. 10-28 to Erikslund.
A big shout out to players plying their first league match for Plebs. Zeb show cased his skill from 15 and Panda came off the bench to make his mark. Erikslund chose James as their player of match and our nr 10, once again put in great showing both with ball in hand and in defence.
Captains Choice (a new award for this season) was given to Gustav who scored a great try, put in many fine tackles and jackaled the ball on numerous occasions. While this wasn’t our day, the team will use the experience to build into the next game on Saturday versus Hammarby.
/ Robin
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