St Andrews snatch a late win against Grey
In a highly entertaining macth, in front of a large crowd, St Andrew's produced a fantastic comeback. They found themselves 36-15 down with only just over a quarter of the game remaining.
The game started with Grey playing with the wind at their backs, which they used to good effect, with their captain, Prinsloo running in an early try, Grey taking a 5-0 lead.
College responded quickly with a try out wide by captain Dean Jenkins after good work from the forward pack. College found themselves on attack again immediately after the restart but poor decision making allowed the Grey scrumhalf to intercept a poor kick and run the length of the field to score under the poles.
This was followed immediately by a penalty kick from the halfway line after some poor discipline and suddenly Grey were 15-5 up.
Once they were back up to 15 players College bounced back with centre Charlie Fleming running through untouched to score out wide.
A further two tries to Grey, and another to Jenkins, meant that Grey went into the break 29-15 up.
Grey started well after the break after absorbing early pressure by scoring another converted try to take a 36-15 lead.
Matt More started the comeback for College with a well worked try and when this was followed by a try to Jack Allanson, College were back in the game at 27-36, and Grey showing signs of tiring.
After some great defence and good work by Fleming, fullback Sean Varty scored out wide, which More converted and the score was 34-36 in Grey’s favour.
With time running out, More missed an easy penalty which would have put College in the lead, but with the ball coming back into the field of play off the pole, Fleming again did superb work to secure the ball and after taking it through a number of phases, Evans scored what turned out to be the winning try.
The game was a fantastic advert for schoolboy rugby, and was a thrilling end to what was a wonderful day of rugby in Grahamstown between two fiercely competitive Eastern Cape schools.
Source: sacschool.com
