Sheffield Hallam 3rds vs. York 2nd
March 10th, 2010 by Reporter_2ndSheffield Hallam University’s Men’s 3rd XV: 5 – University of York Men’s 2nd XV: 66
York were fired up fearing Hallam would send down a much strengthened 3rd XV. After a strong start it wasn’t long before Morty was able to show his class and put Felgate through for a try. After the first 5 minutes York lead 7-0. York applied pressure on Hallam for the entire first quarter and proved totally dominant all over the field. Following some great hands by Garmston who off-loaded in the tackle Felgate went through for his second try in less than 10 minutes. Again Morty added the necessary points. York were by now proving totally dominant and a few minutes later Tom Bummer Morris was able to score running a great line off the back of a very dominant York scrum. Hallam now lifted their game and after a penalty gave them good positioning in our 22 Hallam were able to score in the corner. Around the twenty minute mark though York hit back with an excellent training ground move which saw Ryan Johnston score and Morty add the respective points. However that was RJ’s only moment of glory in a day where he dropped more catches than the FM drinks pints on a Wednesday. RJ secured himself dick of the day triumphantly by sabotaging York’s efforts of really building an emphatic win in a fashion not seen since Spanky got injured.
It was now that Johnson got subbed on despite carrying numerous injuries from Monday night’s game because the sneakiest and quickest of men in York had to leave the field due to a blister. York still had a total strangle-hold on the game and after a well executed line-out York got the push on and the excellently marshalled drive by Redshaw saw the Yorkies force their way over the line with CRM touching down. It wasn’t long before York were back with a good position and managed to dominate the Hallam scrum and winning the penalty Wissen went for the line side-stepping the first defender, handing off the second, pirouetting around the third and finally dropping his shoulder and carrying the final defender the final ten metres of his excellent dash from the half-way line to score (or at least that is how he was heard explain his try to a pretty girl later that night in the ziggy’s champagne lounge). Regardless Wissen’s crash over the line from 5 metres out saw him add his name to the team sheet and mark the first day in UYRUFC history that both props scored in the same outing. York concluded the first half convincingly 47-5 ahead.
A tired second team still not fully recovered from Monday night’s very physical game against Sheffield Hallam 2nd XV grew a little weary in the second half and the scoring rate dropped. Following some early pressure from Hallam York were soon deep in their territory and another catch and drive from Hallam saw Johnson break away from the maul with Tate and get the off-load in the tackle to Woody who went over the line to score. 45 minutes of rugby played and York’s lead was 54-5. York were soon bustling the Hallam lines again and T-bag showing his outrageous gas scored again to bring York to 59 points. Redshaw having had a good game picked up a bad knock and had to be substituted for Rich Welsh seeing George Wissen move into the 2nd row. Tilney also came on to replace Bummer due to injury. York were still proving dominant and a bit of an overzealous pursuit of a hat-trick saw Felgate ignore the overlap and lose the ball in a turn-over. York backs were towards the end of the game proving to be a little selfish in their hunt for tries, and the forwards soon got in on the act with Rishi unfortunately knocking it on after a good run with around 10 minutes left. The game ended with Pete Terraga scoring again to find his way to a hat-trick and Morty having kicked 8 out of 10 conversions concluded the game 66-5.
York 2nd XV:
1.Reid-Milligan, 2.Garmston, 3.Wissen, 4.Redshaw, 5.Quick, 6.Crosse, 7. Holder-Williams, 8.Tate, 9.Wood, 10.Mortimer, 11.Johnston, 12.Pollen, 13.Felgate, 14. Terrager, 15.Morris, 16.Johnson, 17.Rishi, 18.Welsh, 19.Gabriel, 20.Tilney
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