Fun weekend for Naples RFC, in its 18th year of existence. Friday night, we had a get together at Johnny Malloy's in Bonita. Despite the bad road conditions with rain and snowbirds everywhere, at least 20 or so turned up for beer, soda, wings and pizza.
Saturday, the Cape/Lely squad shut out the Ft Lauderdale high school team, 3 tries to nil I believe, in the noon game. Then, the real fun started. The Old Boys vs the Young Guns. There was a lot of scoring. I lost track of the score a bit. I believe the Oldsters struck first with a try before the young'uns scored a couple. The olds tied it up at 14 before the youngsters took a 28-14 lead. On one of their tries, Ryan Shore kicked off. Jason Boehm of the olds was prepared to catch the ball for a return, but instead, Kevin Biada snagged the ball in mid air and ran for a try, leaving Jason looking like he was holding an invisible pile of fire wood. The Oldsters scored the next two tries, but missed a couple of conversions. Pat O'Donnell was kicking at young human targets instead of between the posts. The 4th Old Boy try was scored on the opening 2nd half kickoff. With a little trickery, Olds feigned switching sides. The Ref switched us back, and Pat kicked a nice one that Matt Cook grabbed and ran for a try down the sidelines. He may have tweaked his hammy, as he was done for the day. The youngsters responded to score and add to the lead (I guess making it 35-24, or 35-26 - ref Lisa O'Donnell may have given the Olds couple bonus points). All their tries were breakaway runs, as you could imagine. I must give credit to some of the old boys who actually chased them down and caught up to them a few times. I know I wasn't one of the chasers. In any event, I think that was the end of the youngster scores. Old Boys scored the last two tries, so maybe we did win it. Not so sure. Roy Monk scored a try, Jeremy King and Matty had 2 apiece at least. I know I am missing one. Youngsters had breakaway tries and some nice passing. I am sure Ryan Shore had one or two. Brandon Pierson ran very well. Big Walter had some nice runs, Garrett, etc. Old Boys controlled the scrums. Not sure how the social was. Had to miss this year.
Old Boy roster
Dave Beal
Larry Fox
Reed Jarvi
Ken Dunne
Shawn Donnelly
Matt Cook
Roy Moloney
Roy Monk
Pat O'Donnell
Phil Luby
Bryan Vince
Jeremy King
Steve Dutton
Brian Weir
Jason Boehm
Mike Lare
Steve Braunstein
Doc Mannshrek (started for youngsters)
Posted by bvince9 on Monday, February 22, 2010 (22:23:49) (200 reads)
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