Under 16's vs West Bowling : Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:03 pm  

The Cougars Under 16's won their first ever game against West Bowling, Bowling have several players at the Bulls and at least one at Leeds.

Team:

1. Josh Keedy
2. James Stott
3. Andy Priestley
4. George Knight
5. Mickey Green
6. Joe Buckley
7. Josh Chamberlain
8. Phil Harris
9. Harry Lund
10. Nick Haigh
11. Jack Walsh
12. Nathanial Light
13. Jack Winterburn

14. Adam Keedy
15. Harry Jarman
16. Andrew Taffy
17. Elliot Ryan
18. Connor Vickers

The Cougars started off well in defence keeping Bowling out in 3 consecutive sets. Walsh made a good 40m breakdown the right but lost control of the ball when tackled. A few more great defensive sets and a couple of penalties saw the Cougars on the Bowling 20m line. An offload from Harris allowed Chamberlain to draw the centre and winger in and floated a pass to centre Priestley to open up the scoring, Haigh missed the conversion. 4-0. Some more great defence followed but the Cougars gave away 3 penalties on the bounce and allowed Bowlings scrum half to step and weave under the posts. 4-6. However inthe final 8 minutes of the first half Buckley gave a drop off to Light who ran sideways, found a gap and bursted through it and scored next to the sticks, Buckley converted. 10-6.

After the break the Cougars got right in the oppositions faces with some big hits. After a few repeated sets in the Bowling half substitute Jarman passed from dummy half to A.Keedy who ran a great line to score from 5m out, Buckley conversion. 16-6. But Bowling kept on coming and made some breaks which fustrated the Cougars players, also the Bowling loose forward was getting in the Cougars faces which nearly started a fight. Another fight nearly started later on behind play as the Bowling loose forward aggrevated Walsh. Bowling got a penalty but were kept out. The next time Bowling were in the Cougars half their hooker tapped itfrom a penatly and ran at the defence, he finally put the ball ovr the line after what was at least a 10 second held up. 16-12. But the Cougars produced some good defence to hold the lead and won 16-12.

The Under 15's won their game 22-12.

Re: Under 16's vs West Bowling : Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:14 am  

Well done Cougars - a solid youth structure and foundation is so important. Well done

Re: Under 16's vs West Bowling : Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:08 pm  

Mate is was a tough game to play in, my legs are still killing.

Re: Under 16's vs West Bowling : Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:31 pm  

What a great night of Rugby down at Cougars.
In all four teams, I saw some real potential stars of the future.

For me the team of the night was Keighley U15s.

Huge well done to all involved in organising and coaching such an event.
The families all seemed to enjoy it as much as the players.

Re: Under 16's vs West Bowling : Thu Jun 23, 2011 3:48 pm  

Aye 15's did really well, my cousin was playing 6.