St Albans Centurions

St Albans 18 Hammersmith 26

The Centurions took on Hammersmith Hoists a team of Australians living in London area. In the scorching heat it was Hammersmith who got off to a flying start capitalising on a mistake from the kick-off to apply early pressure on the Cents line and with the game just 5 minutes old Hammersmith winger Trent Bloomfield crossed over for the games opening try.
The Centurions were next to score opening their account after a good run from the forwards down the middle catching the Hoists offside. From the resulting penalty the Centurions forwards took two further drives in and then sent the ball out wide for centre Rudie van der Mewe to score in the corner. After clawing their way back the Centurions contrived to throw away the hard work after sloppy discipline saw the Cents concede 3 penalties in succession granting Hammersmith good field position and on the 5th tackle Hoists stand off Dujon Gorgenson chipped the ball towards the corner which wasn't dealt with by the Cents and Hammersmith crossed the whitewash again, Score 4-10.
Then with half time looming a 40/20 by Hammersmith gave them a scrum. From the scrum the Cents defence was found wanting and half back Dujon Gorgenson skipped over for a try and he converted to give the Hoists a 16 - 4 lead into the break.

This week will see 4 teams entertain at Cotlandswick, with the Senior 1st team playing their fourth game of the season and looking to maintain their impressive form. The Development team will play it's first fixture in the East Regional league with St Ives Roosters making the trip up.

Additionally the U14's and U16's continue their league campaigns against Hemel Stags and Greenwich Admirals respectively.

Fixtures line-up as follows.

U14 v Hemel ko 10am

U16 v Greenwich ko 1115am

1st v Hammersmith ko 2,30pm

Development v St Ives ko 4.15pm

Come down for the feast of rugby entertainment and stay for the Aussie theme night - details in top story.

U12's please visit your Junior page to see updated fixture list.

Cents U13's v Medway Dragons U13's

HT - 0 -12
FT 8-20

Tries - 1 x Will Curtis + 1 x Joseph Harrison No Conversion

Cents battled hard against a BIG, well organised Medway side who boasted only one loss all season and you can see why.
But Cents ignored the form book and took the game to Medway and putting them on the back foot early on in the game.
Cents had a Devan Graham try disallowed early in the first half, then with a lot of pressure coming from the Medway side, they eventually broke the Cents line and scored in the corner.
Cents playing down the hill pressured Medway, their defence stood strong and again, against the run of play Medway broke the Cents line and scored a try, making it 0-12 at Half time.

The second half Cents had it all to do, playing up hill and 0-12. But Cents scored first Joseph Harrison scored in the corner from sustained Cents pressure.

Eastern Rhinos 12 -V- 36 St Albans Centurions

Eastern Rhinos failed to reproduce the tight defensive play from their previous game so failed to contain a big physical St Albans side who consistently gained extra yards from their tackle sets and at times produced some slick passing and offloads.The Rhinos responded to an early spell of pressure to keep The Centurions in their own 20 metres for consecutive sets but a penalty enabled St Albans to kick for excellent field position from which a sweeping cross field move put Dan Hensby over in the corner. Needless penalties were to cost the Rhinos dearly. Andy Lake increasing the Centurions lead on 20 minutes after the Rhinos had conceded a string of penalties on their own line.

The following are the fixtures for Saturday.

Seniors:

Away to Eastern Rhinos at Colchester RUFC Mill Road Playing Fields Colchester CO45JF

Meet at club 1045am we will be travelling by cars NO COACH for 1430 kick off.

Juniors:

Unfortunately the U12's game against Medway has been cancelled due to lack of players. U12's are reminded that training is still on at 6pm on Thursday.

u13 v Medway ko 11am at Cotlandswick
u14 v Hainault at Dagenham RUFC Central Park Dagenham RM10 7EJ ko 1pm
u16 v Skolars at New River Stadium Wood Green N22 ko 11:30am

Any parents that can help with transportation for the u14's and u16's games away at Hainault and London Skolars respectively would be appreciated by the club.