Westray kicked off the game and held the Ba Bas in their own 22 for a long period with some strong forward play.
The babas had the first chance of points opting for a pen kick but it was missed.
The 2nd Hubert Haunschmidt Memorial Cup takes place at 12:30 on Sa30 March in Westray, followed by a Meal & Dance in the evening.
If you can’t make it out to Westray, head to Picky where the 1st XV welcome Allan Gle’s RFC for their rescheduled league match. The game will kick off at 2pm on the Centre Pitch. Big thanks to our Match Sponsors - Alan Stevenson Plumbing; Orkney Hot Tubs & the Pit Stop garage! The 1st XV game will be livestreamed as usual by Rohallion, so keep an eye out on his YouTube channel and subscribe to receive a notification when he goes live. Any spectators wishing to travel out, please contact Erland Drever on 07912 747 177 And anyone wishing to buy tickets for the Meal & Dance, please contact Adam Baird on 07917 103454 Some photos from Hubert’s farewell game in 2003 provided by Erland Drever:
Orkney RFC have won Community Club of the Season in the 2024 Scottish Rugby Community Recognition Award for Caledonia North!
This is a hugely deserved recognition of all the effort that a large number of people have put into every section of the club over the years! Massive Congratulations to everyone involved and thank you so much! Read more below from the Scottish Rugby website RESULTS:
The U14s get an excellent win on the road while the scoreline in Falkirk belied a great performance by the U16s and the 1st XV progress to Round 2 of the cup against Lasswade after a brilliant home win!… Huntly 24-59 U14s Falkirk 46-19 U16s 1st XV 46-14 Aberdeen Grammar … and in the all import game, the Wasps beat the Ba bas 34-32
Orkney did have some bright spells of possession though, with some good carrying by the front row of Connor Crawford, Murray Simpson and Simon Owen, however the home side failed to take advantage of the strong breeze in their favour. Into the second quarter the Caithness scrum started to dominate and eventually the pressure told with their Number 8 driving over from close quarters leaving an easy conversion to take the lead 0 - 7.
17 boys and Stewart Spence turned out in a miserable day in Dounby.
Game started off with the overs playing through the hands with some lovely well worked plays leading to them scoring the first try. Quickly after play continues Simon Owen set off like a freight train and supply the pass for Keith Holland to crash through the over 30’s defence and scoring the try in his first game back since his travel’s. Through out the game the overs showed their experience and punished the under 30’s lack of formation resulting in a try, shortly after the under 30’s replied back with a try of their own to even up the game. The overs started to feel a flow for the game with some cracking carries and a lovely run from Stewart Esslemont getting the best of 2 players and scoring the try Simon ‘the freight train’ Owen boulders through the over 30’s take the whole team for a little run be for planted down for the equaliser for the under 30’s then minutes later he does it again. The Over 30s ran out winners on the day though, final score 25-20. Thanks to Stewart Spence for reffing the game and for all the boys for making the effort! MOM: Simon Owen Under 30’s Bruce Pinkerton Over 30’s Report: Ryan ‘rhala’ Newlands |
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