Saturday's Game

                            PAC   As    36     Washington  33

 Fine weather and clear skies greeted Washington rugby for their first pre season hit out against a strong PAC side who play their first league game in Super league next Weekend.

PAC opened the scoring with a well worked blind side move off a scrum on the Washington 22 meter line that saw the defense caught out badly as the PAC winger strolled over untouched in the first minute.
The conversion was pushed wide and the score was 5-0.

PAC came strongly back onto attack courtesy of several Washington unforced errors however some great defense from forward leader Mike Dickle forced the turnover and a great counter attack saw a 50 meter try under the posts to Josh Warner,LC converted and washington led
7-5.

With the winter rust still evident in the Washington side who were now struggling in both scrums, line outs and placement of kicks in general play.
PAC were able to extend their lead to 24-7 at the break,mainly through some good tight driving mauls.

Washington appeared to get their second wind after the break and with the introduction of Dumont,Josh Williamson and Mika in the tight and Kreg in the loose the forwards started to turn the tables on their more experienced opposition at scrum time.

Good passages of back play and some nice counter attacking moves saw Washington close the gap to 24-19 through tries by T/Mac and Danny,T/Macs try was converted by LC.

With Washington right back in the game and on a roll some poor option taking and some uneducated kicking essentially handed PAC back possession,our defensive line couldn't react quickly enough to complete the first up tackles and PAC were in for two more very soft tries
To lead 36-19.

To their credit,the Washington side stormed back to score 2 more tries of their own through Kreg and man of the match Anwaar both converted by LC
Final score 36-33

Although Washington didn't win the game They showed that they have well and truly turned the corner with some great passages of play and some fine individual performances.
With work on cutting down the unforced error rate,correct option taking and winning our own line out ball.I am expecting to see a major improvement come Friday nights game.

The second Side,who were pretty much thrown together just before kickoff Didn't fair quite so well, had managed to hold  PAC to 25-19 with 8 minutes to go then as fatigue took its toll a 3 try blitz by PAC saw the score blow out to 44-19

Highlights of the second game included a cameo 2nd half appearance from President Kevin Gilligan who loomed up in support to score two tries with his first two touches of the ball.
(im sure this story will live on forever,as will the amount of ground covered to score will increase)
Jajaun (who ate all the pies Hill) crashing over to score from 10 meters out
PJs sniping runs
Juices sweet dummy before taking the gap and scoring
Chris's hit on the PAC inside center

But it was Whiteys tireless effort in the loose that stole the show and won him the man of the match!

Lets make sure everyones at practice on time and i can select the side for Friday nights match
If we can get 2 full sides to work on our set pieces things will improve out of sight.

See you all Tuesday.
Craig