Under 8s BLACK: Game One: Lightning Ridge came up against an in-form St George and had a wonderful game.
Shelton Brown scored two tries, Dougie Winch two, Tom Barrett two and Jack Barrett one. All the boys showed great tackling skills. The final score saw our boys being defeated by only one try 28 to 32.
Player of the match went to Lincoln Woods.
Game two: Black faced the other Tigers Under 8 side, Orange. It was an excellent game with all the children from both teams showing wonderful football skills. The children also showed great sportsmanship.
Dougie Winch scored four tries, Shelton Brown two, Tom Barrett two, Jack Barrett one, Feli Ciprian one and Lincoln Woods two.
Feli Ciprian showed some terrific skills with great off-loads to Dougie Winch to put him in for two of his tries.
UNDER 8s ORANGE
Game one: The Tigers travelled to Mungindi to play St George White.
Memphis McBride was the first Tiger to cross the line, bagging two tries by the end of the match. Brothers Jacob and Tom Ellis both scored one try each.
Shalana Walsh-Morris scored two tries and was awarded player of the match for her great performance on the day. Best dummy half was awarded to Sam Rae.
At the end of the game, however, St George White left with a win.
Game two: The second game saw Orange take on Tigers Black. It was great to watch our boys go head to head and show off their first-class footy skills.
Tom Ellis ran the ball like a pro and got the first try for Orange, while Memphis McBride crossed the line three times and Sam Rae ended the game with one try.
Player of the match was awarded to Jock Ellis, while Eli Lohse received best dummy half. The Under 8s Black left victorious.
Thank you to Trevor McGovern who coached the Orange team this week in the absence of Squealer. His assistance was very much appreciated.
Under 10s
Game one: The Tigers played St George, which has been in sizzling hot form.
Ryan Weatherall led our Tigers on the field. This was a tough encounter, with no points on the clock for the first quarter. Patrick Demaine went across for a try that was converted by his brother Peter.
The Tigers held a hard-earned lead at half time10 to 0.
They held on to their lead which frustrated St George. A great try, which was scored by Dylan, and a couple of full field tries by Winston McBride sealed the victory for the Tigers.
Player of the match went to Bleair Morrison. Final score Tigers 26 to St George 4.
Game two: Captain Rylan Simms led to the team on to the field against the Dirranbandi Frogs.
The Tigers fired from the first whistle, going on a try scoring frenzy. Ben and Peter both scored two tries and Jett Tishler scored three very entertaining tries from his new position of five eight.
Ben, Peter and Dylan harassed the attacking side with bone crunching defence. Rylan, Winston and Oscar all crossed the white line along with Dan McIntosh, who scored his first for the season.
Player of the match went to Rylan. Final score Tigers 50 to Dirranbandi 0
Under 12s
Two big games of footy at the weekend at Mungindi and two great wins.
Game one: Led on to the turf by captain of the day Patrick Moore, the Tigers Under 12s were up against the Dirranbandi/ Mungindi team.
A few early ball-handling errors saw the Dirran team camped in our half for quite some time. Following some outstanding defence, our Tigers worked the ball up field through great directional play. The attacking raids saw the Tigers get up 28 to 0.
Brody Tzvetkoff claimed the player of the match award.
Patty Moore played his best game of the year with straight running and good support play.
Lightning Ridge 28 beat Dirranbandi 0.
Game two: In what could be the game of the season the old adage “defence wins games”
proved to be very true. The Tigers muscled up against a fired-up St George team.
Halfway through the first half, the Dragons had four repeat sets of tackles (24) on our try line. To the Tigers’ credit, they stood solid and numbered up against the Dragons, repelling attempt after attempt.
The score was four-all when the whistle blew for half-time.
Rory Cheal continued to be a thorn in the side of any ball runner despite his smaller stature.
The Tigers ran in five unanswered tries in the second half to take the points 24 to 4.
Bella was awarded player of the match for an exceptional game in attack and defence.
Final score, Lightning Ridge 24 beat St George 4.
President’s note:
Congratulations to our Under 10s players named in the Balonne Barwon squad to compete in Murrumba in July: Jett Tishler, Ben Smith, Peter Demaine, Ryan Weatherall and Oscar Cheal. Also congratulations to coaching officials appointed to take the teams away: Michael Smith, Graham Henry and Amanda Cheal.
Following our home game, the weekend after next, our teams will be supporting Indigenous comedian Sean Choolburra at the Pub in the Club. Free entry and food will be available from the bistro at the club from 6.30pm.
The Under 12 under 43kg representative team will be named this weekend at St George. For more information call Graham Henry on 6829 1309.
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