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Teachers Ladies 7, Police Ladies 1

Sunday's rugby festivities started with Teachers Ladies taking on Police Ladies. The girls in red and black thoroughly dominated the affair with punishing runs and contemptuous finishing - whipping the subdued Police side seven tries to 1. Scoring for the rampant reds were Kathy Wright (2 tries), Jo Thivierge (2) Carla Antonic (2) and Jen Crawford. Rachael Black scored the lone try for police.

Teachers 41, Police 7

A disgracefully disorganized Police side, who turned up for this game with 14 men, minutes before kick-off, paid for their Saturday night excess with a slothful performance which saw them on the receiving end of a 41-7 drubbing at the hands of a rampany Teachers' XV.

Already behind the eight ball Police woes grew shortly after kick off when West Indies star Bobby Hurdle stole the ball from the opening kick off maul and sprinted 50 meters before off loading to a supporting Anthony Cupidor who notched the first score.

Police rallied but to no avail and Teacher's centre Warren Clifford took advantage of blatant forward pass from Naylor, which referee Ron Flesch inexplicably missed, and sliced through the feeble Police defence for a second try.

Chris Naylor missed the conversion again but the floodgates opened shortly afterwards. Charles Walker Smith, Dave Porter and Hurdle all scored easily as the Police team found themselves on the back foot and reeling. Naylor finally converted one five pointer taking the score to 27-0 at half time.

Some colourful language from despondent Police captain Michael Kane and an equally fiery oratory from dejected coach Kenny O'Shea seemed to inspire the boys in blue.

On the ensuing kick off, evergreen Gareth Davies made a hallmark dart around the fringes, scissoring with Cutfield on the crash ball who superbly off loaded in the tackle to a supporting Jamie Webb. Webb finished the move off with a try between the sticks. Kane converted and police were on the score sheet 27-7.

The score inspires a mini-fight back but when Cooper powered through a weak Mark Evans tackle and freed Hurdle to score again, it heralded the end for Police.

Naylor converted to extend the lead to 34-7. The final nail in the coffin came as the frustrated O'Shea was sin-binned for a cynical professional foul. Naylor rounded off the scoring when he gathered a poor clearance kick and scampered in for a converted try on the final whistle. Teachers walked off with a comprehensive 41-7 victory over a disappointing Police team.

Mariners Ladies 3, Renegades Ladies 2

The second ladies match of the day saw the powerful Mariners team take on an improving Renegades squad. Mariners opened the game with some fine patterns of play and the Renegades appeared to have no answer for their cross field running which resulted in Jill Brydon opening the scoring for the green and yellow.

Renegade rookie sensation Melissa Field tied it at 1-1 with a scorching 40 meter run.

Cheered on by a vociferous crowd, Mariners retook the lead with two fine tries from Michelle Berendt and Mary-Ann Rowlston.

Renegades had two perfectly good tries oddly disallowed before winger Vanessa George showed her class by out-sprinting a pedestrian Mariner defence to tighten the score to 3-2.

Renegades 33, Mariners 10

The final game of the day pitted perennial cell dwellers Mariners against league champions Renegades.

But Mariners forwards led by the impressive David Rourke and Gary Brady piled into the fray and sent an early message that this would be a battle. The forward exchanges were titanic with neither side giving an inch.

But it was Renegades that took the lead when winger Keith Mahon charged after another long clearance kick and won possession from startled Mariner full back Luke Millward. The ball was expertly recycled out to standoff Jones who bulldozed through a narrow gap and popped the ball inside to a supporting Laurence Daniels who touched down between the posts. Paul Jones converted and Renegades were off the mark 7-0.

When referee Ben Jewett missed a clear infringement by Daniels at the bottom of a ruck - Renegades crucially stole possession and quick hands put Healy, who had come off the bench, into space.

Healy, initially rested ahead of the West Indies sevens tournament, showed his class and a clean pair of heels to the Mariner back line which was at sea. Jones converted and Renegades were ahead 14-0.

Mariners continued to beat upwind and were rewarded a fine try by Riaan Smitt who powered over from close after a fine darting run from Mark Pomeroy. The conversion was missed and the half time score was 14-5.

With the wind up their backs Mariners started the 2nd half with fire and passion.

Powerful prop Dustin Archibald finished off some fine aggressive forward play and brought the scores closer- 14-10.

It was then that Bermuda Irish and West Indies sevens star Healy took the game by the scruff of the neck and scored his second and third try of the game in a back breaking five minute spell.

Both tries highlighted the superior pace and talent of Healy who used fine supporting runs by O'Dwyer and Scott Slater to create space and opportunity. Jones made one of the two easy conversions extending the lead to 26-10.

Another sub Rod Steward heaped more misery on the Mariners enchanting the large crowd with a delightful dummy before releasing James Holburn on a long run.

A few deft grubber kicks later saw Holburn pounce on the bouncing ball to finish the scoring.[[In-content Ad]]

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