Herts County Squad

Champions 2007

Winners of Notts Lincs & Derby County Festival 2007

Essex County Festival 2006 & 2007

Scored 47 tries, 255 points

Conceded 5 points

Played 12, won 11 games

Sarries Girls Vs Welwyn, Basford and Hertford

On Sunday 9th December the Sarries girls squad had three home matches against Welwyn and Hertford, who make up Herts County, and Basford who make up Essex County. It was a fantastic day for everybody, the rugby was great and the clubs get on very well as they make up the East Region. I'm sure every girl there had heaps of fun getting wet, muddy and generally horrible. Well done to Basford for beating everybody on the day, but Herts County have got the Essex County trophy so ha. Thanks to everybody who turned up to play. Thanks also to Hannah and Craig, the refs, who made the day possible, and to the coaches. Results Welwyn 10 : 15 Saracens (Trys - Claire x2 and Meg x1) Saracens 10 : 7 Hertford (Trys - Claire x1 and Melissa x1) Welwyn 10 : 5 Hertford Basford 26 : 12 Welwyn Basford 32 : 0 Hertford Basford 29 : 0 Saracens

Newark county Festival

In the absence of Herts U18's, two Herts U15 Teams (A's and B's) travelled to Newark RFC in Nottinghamshire, on Sunday 2nd of December, for a County Festival now in it's second year. It was an emotional day (very cold and windy as well) as the A Squad have been together for two seasons and this was to be their final fixture. Herts A and last years Winners Notts, Lincs and Derby (NLD) both won their Groups without conceeding a point and met in the Final. In a very intense game played under floodlights, Herts won 5-0, the only Try of the game coming at the end of the first half, and had to defend valiently throughout the second half to protect their slim lead. Herts B's lost both their Group games, but the experience gained at this level will be very valuable as many of the B Players will step into the Herts A Team next season when half of this A Team move up to U18 Rugby. Results affecting Herts U15 Teams: Herts 'A' 53 : NLD 'B' 0 Herts 'B' 0 : NLD 'A' 35 Herts 'A' 40 : Northants and Beds 0 Herts 'B' 0 : Leicestershire 45 Final: Herts 'A' 5 : Notts, Lincs and Derbyshire 'A' 0 So the last county fixture of this season has finished on a high. Thanks to every single girl who has turned up and done their best for both teams, and to their surely proud parents. Thanks to the parents for the long drives and cold days, but also for their unwavering support. Well done everyone!

Sarries v Bucks Jesters

In what turned out to be a very tight game the Sarries Girls playing as a cluster with Harlequins and Northolt just managed to edge out Bucks Jesters with the last play of the game. Sunday 25th November 2007 The game started well with the girls moving the ball and passing well out of the tackle to pressure the Bucks defence. Eventually Bucks were able to recover the ball and kicked deep to relieve the pressure. A good chase put pressure on the Sarries girls, but eventually they worked an opening wide on the left and Hannah (Har) was able to break from half way to score. From the kick off Sarries again carried the ball down field with a number of drives, but were held up just short of the line. The resulting scrum gave Sarries the ball again, which after a drive was held up just short of the line, with Hannah again scoring from the resulting ruck. The second half opened up with more Bucks pressure but Sarries held out well. In attack though Bucks were forcing us more lateral and we were not penetrating as we did in the first half. Sarries troubled the defence a few times with well executed mauls but could not turn the pressure into more points. A miss hit clearing kick gave Bucks the chance to counter attack. They were able to pass it wide around the Sarries defence to score under the posts and kicked the conversion. From the resulting kick-off Bucks passed the ball wide quickly again, to repeat their score under the posts and get the conversion to take the lead with a minute and a half left. Sarries kicked deep from the kick off and chased well. Bucks gathered the ball and kicked down field, but were caught off side from the kick chase. Sarries chose the scrum option and attacked wide right but were held up just short of the line, recycling the ball as the clock ran down. They moved the ball left and were twice almost through, but on both occasions were tackled just short of the line by great Bucks defence. The girls showing great skill in the contact area kept the ball alive and popped it out of the tackles to supporting players, with the final pop pass being to Claire looping round the wing to score in the corner. This dramatic finale to a thrilling match gave Sarries a 15:14 win.