29^th March 09: Rugby Lions Under 14’s - 29 points          v              Lutterworth Under 14’s 7 points

Both teams lost a number of players due to injury and unavailability but still played out a very competitive match in perfect conditions.  Lutterworth pressurized Lions right from the start but just could not breach their impressive defence and as Lions came more into the game they forced their way up field for James Scott to break free and score the opening try.  The remainder of the half was close fought and played out between the 22’s but the second half saw Lions dominate play to score 4 exhilarating tries with a brace each from Will Tuite-Dalton and Zac Baldwin and Harry Parsons and Dan Martin kicked a conversion each.  Lutterworth’s speedy winger replied with a length of the field touchline run to score a converted try but by then the match was won and Lions were able to reflect on three very impressive performances in the last three weeks.

Rugby Lions U9s 6 v Old Coventrians Tigers 0

A beautiful sunny day saw the Lions getting control of the ball from the start. There was a lot of good driving forward followed by a quick try from Sam Wright. A good tackle from John Turland stopped the Tigers in their tracks, to be followed by a try from Daniel Delbem. A fantastic run up the pitch saw another brilliant try from Ben Downing, allowing the Lions to go into a half time score of 3-0. A good start to the 2^nd half saw a good flying tackle from Tom Partridge which was then followed up by a try from Jack Wooliscroft. It was followed by a very quick try from Oliver Goodsir. There was some fantastic passing and a good run forward by Sam Davies leading to the final try from Aidan Wardle.

Rugby Lions U9s 4 – Leamington 0

Lions came out fighting and still on a high from the previous match. The first try of the Game was awarded to Tom inching the score in Lions Favour. It was closely followed by a very quick try by Aiden Wardle. To make Lions have a good 1^st half saw Jack Wooliscoft score the try that would take Lions into a 3-0 lead at half time. The second half saw Lions come out and take a very try by Ben Downing. There were lots of great tackles from all the lions and spirits were held up high with another fantastic win.

Rugby Lions U9s 1 v Old Leams 3

This was to be the toughest game that the Lions played all day; it would be their only defeat of the day which would see them coming 2^nd overall in the tournament. Old Leams took the lead. At half time Lions was losing 0-2. After the start of the 2^nd half the Lions had a lineout only to have the ball taken from them and Old Leams score again.

Rugby Lions U9s 6 v Broadstreet 0

After the defeat in the last match the Lions came out fighting it was a quick and hard game, the 1^st try of the game was scored by Jack Wooliscroft. Then stealing the ball from Broadstreet Daniel Delbem came through to score try number 2. It was followed up from another by Jack. Close to halftime saw Aidan Wardle come through to score try number 4. With Toms interception to score saw the Lions off to a good start in the 2^nd half. The final try of the match went to Callum Hopkins.

Rugby Lions U9s 2 v Old Coventrians Lions 1

The game started with some long hard driving forward by Rugby, there were a couple of lineouts awarded to Rugby which then enabled Ben Downing to open the scoring with the first try. Old Coventians came out fighting in the second half to draw level with Rugby. Tom then came back with another try for Rugby to maintain the lead. Rugby started dropping the ball and then some unfortunate passes straight to Old Coventrians but they managed to keep their cool and win the match.

It was a fantastic day for all the U9’s team and we would like to thank all players and coaches and Refs involved in making it a good day.

Played 5: Won 2, Drew 2, Lost 1

Tries for: 7 (Cave 3, Atkinson 3, Baillie 1)  Tries against: 4

Difficult to pick out a man-of-the-match performance between Mikey Atkinson and Jack Cave as both scored three tries and both put in some tremendous tackles.

Strong running from backs, Zak Wright, Bevan Garth and especially Tom Baillee and Jamie Cawardine was backed up with dogged defence from forwards Oliver Lee, Robert Jupp, Trafford Warwick and Ben Clayton. By the end of a splendid festival the half-backs Jack Wallace and Kieran Lorimer were both moving the ball out sweetly to the strong wings where Aitkinson, Bailee and Carwardine were proving most dangerous. The team were the only one to test a strong Old Leamingtonians side losing 2-0, with OLs going on to win the competition after winning all their games.

Rugby Lions U13s vs Earlsdon

The Under 13s played Earlsdon away from home last Sunday and returned home winners despite a below par performance.

Patrick Mills had a fantastic game scoring all 3 tries for the Lions. The first came from a charge down following a line out just outside the Earlsdon try line. The second came from a run from his own half with several Earlsdon defenders thrown by side steps.

At half time the score stood at 10-0 and Rugby were easily the better side but were finding it difficult to capitalise on their superiority. In the second half one of the large Earlsdon centres broke through the Lions’ defence to bring the home side within 1 score. However just before the final whistle Patrick popped up again to score the killer try to take the final score to 15-0.