Rugby Union - cold 'ol games in Inverell
Rugby Union
Bingara turned on the cool conditions for the late games under lights for the Barraba/Gwydir team against Narrabri last Saturday in both girls and boys games.
In the girl’s game, Narrabri again asserted their strength, as they have a larger number of players than the smaller clubs, and they are above the girls on the Table. They were expected to be the stronger but coach, Jack McCarthy, was very pleased with the girls’ effort as they never gave up. The final score saw Narrabri the winner with 57-5.
Player’s Player Gemma McDouall
- Kia Newell
- Nat Philpott
- Brianna Mack & Isabel Butler
The school boys game on Friday in the under 16’s saw Inverell run out winners 55-15 with the temperature well down. There will be no 14’s Girls or 16’s Boys games during the school holidays.
On July 2nd, with games against Gunnedah, the Club will be having the Ladies Day, which proves very popular with the female players and followers. So, ladies, come out for the day.
In the Men’s game, in very cold conditions, Narrabri dominated the early part of the game to build a reasonable lead at half-time. The second half Barraba/Gwydir seemed to win the session but failed to add enough points with a try being scored by Josh Austin which was disallowed on the Touch Judge’s report. The team suffered a number of bad injuries during the match with shoulder and ankles, which may have occurred because of the colder temperature in the night-time game.
Reports say the game was a good spectacle to watch even though the score 24-7 does not indicate that.
Player’s Player Will Robinson, who leads by example
- Josh Robinson
- Josh Austin
- Harry Brown & Mark O’Neill
There will be a Committee meeting on Thursday night at 5.30pm to discuss the arrangements for Gunnedah and Ladies Day.