Carr and Laroche show Heathfield have ‘the edge’.
Heathfield U13’s travelled to a blustery Edenbridge this Sunday to start their league campaign. Heathfield hadn’t played Edenbridge for three years when they narrowly lost to them on a tour friendly, so were unsure of their opposition. Edenbridge won the toss and from the kick off Heathfield dominated the territory and possession. Woods showed early promise with two runs in space from left wing.
Parsons playing at openside flanker was active very early on, ripping the ball from a maul and linking with Carr who quickly got on the score sheet. For the next few minutes Heathfield camped on Edenbridge’s line with a series of scrums but failed to capitalise on the possession. Taylor at scrum half crossed the line only to have a try deemed to be held up, and seconds later Geldart at no 8 did the same – Edenbridge managing to hold that up too! It was Parsons again who from speedy work in the loose set up inside centre Benians to crash through for the second score.
Just before half time Ross at outside centre made a great break and linking with Carr for the Captain’s second try of the day, making sure he got under the posts so that Ross could convert the score.
The second half was a scrappy affair and Heathfield had much less possession to a fired up Edenbridge. Defence was very strong from a depleted Heathfield side with Ross and Sweetman putting in some excellent tackling work. Paul had a trade mark marauding run from the breakdown, and Burdett looking like a chip off the old block linked well with a scissors move in the centre nearly breaking the gain line. The last score of the game came from Carr and Laroche linking on the left wing with new boy Laroche showing a great deal of pace and flair to run from his own half to score for the greenies. Laroche shows huge promise and natural pace.
Squad: Paul, Osman, Baird, Sutton, Baker, Sweetman, McGavey, Geldart, Macleod, Taylor, Parsons, Benians, Ross, Woods, Burdett, Lacey, Cuming, Michael, Pantrey, Carr, Groves, Woods.
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10/25/2009 9:24:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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