Claremorris RFC : Update #6

Roots & All is a project where we pick a few teams that don’t normally make the spotlight week in week out and feature them regularly throughout an entire campaign.

Its games games games as our 4 youth teams and all our mini rugby players have been action over the last two weeks. The youths have been particular busy with 4 teams playing over the weekend just gone by.

The U13’s played their second league game against Tuam RFC and were unlucky not to come away with a win. Having lead 24-17 a second league win looked to be on the card however the Galway boys would not give in and a late converted try meant it finished all square at 24-24.

The U14’s have been our busiest team so far as they played their fourth league game of the season also against Tuam RFC on Saturday last. Our boys will keen to back to winning ways having lost last time out and duly did with a fine team performance. It was one-way traffic for the entire 60 minutes as we claimed a fine 30-0 win.

Unfortunately for our U15 team player numbers are low so games are hard to come by. But last weekend we had an excellent 8 a side game against Tuam RFC. Our boys were mad for some game time and it showed as we recorded a good win by 10 tries to 6. It looks as if 7’s rugby will be the way to go with these lads for the next few months so hopefully there will be some other clubs in the same position that we can get games against.

The U17 team travelled to Westport last Sunday for round two of the league and bagged an impressive win. Right from the off our boys were in the ascendency as we lead 14-0 at half time. The second half was all about free flowing rugby as we got five more tries to record a fine 47-7 win.

Our boy’s mini rugby teams had their first games of the season as the U7, U8, U9 and the U10 teams travelled to Castlebar while the U11 & U12 teams went to Westport.

The U7 team had some excellent performance but Brian Hett must get the award for player of the day. For the U8 team Barry Gleeson deserves special mention for his all round play.

The U9′s had two teams in action with Daniel Noone and Jack Melvin the stand out performers. The U10′s also had two teams with Adam Gleeson and Mark Gibbons leading by example.

Best for the two U11 teams were Dylan Morris and Eoin O’Connor, while the U12 award goes to Michael McHale. We would also like to thank both host clubs for their hospitality once the games were done and dusted.

Meanwhile last Saturday our girl’s teams travelled to Westport for the second Connacht rugby blitz of the season. Our girls did us proud with some excellent performances despite the rather wet and windy weather.

Finally our club had the honour of having one of our own players 9 year old Kyle Leonard as the Connacht rugby mascot at last weekend’s Rabo Pro 12 game against Benetton Treviso. There were about 35 Claremorris supporters at the Sportgrounds to cheer on Kyle and the Connacht team. Here is Kyle pictured with his favourite player John Muldoon.

For the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on mini rugby training for our boys and girls. The youths will continue to be in Connacht league action. The club shop will also continue to open every Saturday.

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