On a very wet and cold sunday afternoon the girls took a trip down to Minety to play Cirencester. We were itching to play this match as this was the game we played last season when we first got the girls section going.
We got underway and instantly showed dominance in forward play with Kayleigh crashing over for our 1st try.
Ciren came back at us but we turned the ball over and ran it back, forward play pressured in the Ciren 22 and scrum half Gemma scored our 2nd.
The game had a few knock on’s from both teams but our forwards dominated the scrum and the ref had to ask them to “go easy”. Then came a break from a great partnership from Rachel (ginge) Greene and Katie Simon resulting in ginge scoring our 3rd.
Shortly after rats went over for our 4th, making up for a fumble on the line shortly before.
In the 2nd half we were going uphill and we got hail stones raining down. This did not deter us and we again pushed forward, although the defense on the Ciren team really pulled together.
Olivia Rendell then got the ball from just inside the Ciren half and made an amazing run bouncing off 4 tackle attempts and dragging almost the whole Ciren back line to score our 5th try.
Kayleigh then added another try resulting in our 4th hatrick of the season, joining the elite list of Rebecca, Chloe and Therza.
Ciren then made a great run in the dying second and scored their 1st of the game.
Man of the match was Kayleigh.
Special thanks to Rebecca (popeye) Pope, Charlotte and Jordan who made numbers up for Ciren, Charlotte was amazing and showed great skills
Final score Cirencester 5-35 Tewkesbury
