School Games Tag Rugby Heats & Finals

We took 2 teams to the heats and our A team progressed to the finals, where they secured Silver Medals.

After putting in some great effort training in Sports Squad with Mr Ellis and over the last year with Mrs Gigg in Tag Rugby we were ready to take two teams to the Tameside Heat 3 which took place at Ashton Rugby Club.

The A team played excellently in their group winning all their games by playing some superb attacking rugby coupled with some good defence to ensure that they beat not only St Peter’s but Silver Springs and Airlies to make it to the Finals the following Tuesday.

The B team found some similar form, winning the first match against St Peters by scoring some great tries, with YB and AW particulary impressing with their fast running. We followed the first win with further wins against Silver Springs and also St John Fisher to ensure that for the first time we had two teams in the final tournament to be played the Tuesday after, a great achievement.

50 schools were whittled down to 15 for the final where the competition was much, much tougher. However our B team represented our school brilliantly scoring some great tries as the first game against St Paul’s finished an incredible 7-7.

We then lost narrowly to Russell Scott and just missed out 4-3 to St Peter’s, which meant we finished 3rd in the group, an excellent performance.

The A team were in great form too, with even better defence meaning they defeated Gee Cross Holy Trinity and The Heys easily setting up a decider with Dowson to decide who would make the semi finals. The game was very close and finished a nerve wracking 2-2.

This meant qualifiction went down to tries scored and luckily Greenside scored 11 across the group to Dowson’s 11.

The semi final was close again against Hollingworth, Greenside being behind twice 1-0 and 2-1 before a great equaliser. Then with only seconds remaining we scored the winning try to win 3-2 and set up a final against last year’s winners St Paul’s.

It was another close game with hardly any mistakes from both teams and scoring was difficult for both teams. Greenside played brilliantly but just lost 3-2 to just miss out on the title. However we did get silver medals and were very proud of the achievement, with the result being the best performance by a team from Greenside.

Players of the match were AW for the heat and CC and ML for the finals.