Unfortunately, early youth and Women’s Rugby games were cancelled due to the inclement weather, but the Senior games took place nonetheless. 

 

Wolves put up a good fight in the first half and sunk their teeth into the Overseas and didn’t let them run rampant.

 

Michael Banks(10) on 20 minutes finally kicked a penalty to open the Overseas account, then Sergio Trujillo(No8) on a charging run scored out wide.

 

The game was hampered by a strong wind making passes go wayward. Wolves were competing, but were trying to run the ball from deep, instead of using the wind and kicking for the corners to make it easier on their forwards.

 

The half time score was only 8-0  to Overseas, playing into the wind, but they soon after turned to play with the wind at their backs.

 

Michael Banks made use of it, placing some dinky little kicks into the corners, forcing Wolves to defend some attacking lineouts. A lineout close to the Wolves’ tryline, that went then to a catch and driving maul, Nicky Vella((9) passed to the flying Japanese, Shosei Yamaguchi(28) running down the blindside, for him to score in the corner.

 

Three more tries to Overseas as they began to play some open Rugby, to Trujillo(No8) again, Cameron Brown(12) dotted down, after Bank’s had glided through the defence, then Zarrin Galea(25) battered his way over, which closed the game out at Overseas 30 points to Wolves 0.

 

The game was well Refereed by Mauro Miceli, in difficult weather conditions.