U14s in 15 Try Thriller

A real thriller today - all we were missing was a moonwalk.

With Malton having only 13 players Riley Tuley and Luca Lombardi kindly stepped up to play for the visitors.
The first half was dominated by Ripon, with the pack winning both the set pieces and breakdowns, allowing the backs to move the ball through the hands. Quick rucks saw overlaps developing and Ripon used them well.
Evan Rees opened the scoring, followed by Cole Potts, then two Oliver Williams tries and a hat trick for Ted Wainwright. One conversion by Ben Rutter making it 37 for the home team. Malton pinched one on the stroke of half time (37-5).

The second half saw Malton come back into the game with venom, scoring 3 excellent back to back tries bringing the scoreline to a more respectable 37-26.

Some outstanding kicking from Andy Gilchrist to return the ball to the field of play after the Malton conversions may have earned himself a call up to the seniors next saturday.

After a quiet word from Dan, Ripon woke up and started to play more like the first half. Michael Sorby went on some destructive runs and offloaded well in the tackle and Oliver Rockey impressed in attack again.

It was Connor Stout who got Ripon's first try of the second half though. Ted Wainwright scored his 4th of the game against his old teammates (converted by Hamish Mainey), then Luca Lombardi (back on his own team) showed a turn of pace and there was even a rumour of a goose step to take Ripon past the half century (54-26).

Malton had the last say though, scoring right at the death, to finish a very entertaining and excellently refereed :-) match.
Final score 54-33

Some things to work on at training and Andy needs to keep practicing his kicking.