North Kesteven RUFC Open Day a huge success 
North Kesteven Rugby Club, the first
to hold the RFU Community Rugby Seal of Approval and Sport England Clubmark in
the Notts/Lincs/Derbys RFU area held an Open Day at their North Hykeham Playing
Fields home on Saturday 2nd October. The Open Day was a requirement of the RFU
Seal Of Approval Year One Development Plan.
The club provided a full and
varied day of rugby catering for all ages and sexes.
The day started with
a Tag Festival for secondary school girls in years 7, 8 & 9. The festival
was the culmination of months of work by theNorth Kesteven club coaches in a number of local school's as part of the
Lincolnshire Sports Partnerships Active Sports Programme. In all six sides
entered the festival. Two teams entered from
Branston Community College with a further two from Lincoln Christ's
Hospital
School. A mixed North Kesteven and Robert Pattinson team and finally LSST and guests made
up the six sides.
After an exciting mornings rugby the eventual winners
were Branston Community College "A " with NK/RP winning the Fair Play
Shield. All participants were presented with commemorative medals in the
clubhouse at the end of the festival. It is hoped that a number of the girls
will now make the transition from Tag Rugby to the contact format, feeding into
the existing Under 14 and Under 17 girls teams at the club.
There then
followed a full contact game between North Kesteven Rugby Club Under 17 girls
and Market Deeping Angels Under 17 girls. This was an evenly matched contest
that provided exciting rugby for the large crowd of spectators from both clubs
who had attended to support their girls sections. Playing with the wind in the
first half and after taking an early lead North
Kesteven
could not capitalise on their territorial advantage so took a slender 5 point
lead into the interval. Market Deeping came back strongly in the second half and
were leading 17 - 10 going into the last five minutes. Spurred on by the vocal
support from the touchline North Kesteven were camped on
the Market Deeping line for the last five minutes of the match. It looked as if
Market Deeping were going to hold out for victory until front row forward Hannah
Lewin broke through their defensive line to score under the posts. Fly half Zoe
Wells knew that she had to make good the conversation to level the scores. With
her team mates at half way not daring to look, Wells calmly slotted over the
kick to draw the game 17 points all. All agreed that it was a fine advert for
ladies rugby and one that bodes well for Lincolnshire Ladies rugby in
particular.
After a short break the NK Development Team a combination of
veterans and colts played Scunthorpe 5th XV. The
experience of NK veterans prop Adrian France and half back Mike Bray proved too
much to the visitors who although refusing to give the game up were
comprehensively beaten in the end by 40 points to 8.
During the day a
number of Under 12 and Under 13 boys together with their parents visited the
number to register for the newly formed 12/13 group who under the direction off
head coach Daz Woodall will start training regularly on Monday evenings at
7pm.
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