It seemed the magic number was ‘11’ when it came to scoring winning points in the first round of the Junior 13-16 years Touch competition at Ward Oval on Thursday.
Yellow scored 11 points to beat Pink 11-2 in their game while Green also finished with 11 points in their 11-6 win over Blue.
Six Yellow players scored tries in their match with Pink with Maddie Bruce and Clay McDonald running in two each and Aiden Swan, Rowdy Barton, Skyla Fairfull and Talas Burke each crossed for a try.
Pink’s two points came from a try each to Jackson Muldoon and Will Oborn.
Maddie and Clay shared the game’s Best & Fairest points with Pink’s Lachlan Brookman.
Jaxon Burke ran in four tries to help Green to their win with Rhylee Patterson scoring a double. Sosie Barton and Kai McCosker also touched down for one try each.
Blue’s points came from two tries to George McDonald and one each to Ella Oborn, Jack Rogers and Tim Eves.
George, Ella and Jaxon earned the referee’s B&F points.
The first round match between Blue and Yellow in the 9-12 years age group was a thriller with the match finishing in a 6-all draw.
Blue’s try scorers were Alfie Toomey (2), Dusty McDonald, Thomas Preisig and Holly Watt.
For Yellow, Austin Kane (2), Hugo Josephson, Lucy Tiffen and Riley Bruce were their try scorers.
Austin shared in the referee’s B&F points along with William Tiffen (Blue) and Aisea Fakahua (Yellow).
The other match in the 9-12 years competition between Red and Orange was very one-sided with Red running away to finish as 14-3 winners.
Kasalia Fakahua, with three tries, spearheaded the attack for Red with support from Indie Burke (2), Eligh Ritter (2), Cooper Trudgett and Keelan Atuau. Tommy George ran in all three tries for Orange.
Kasalia, Sonny Stephens (Orange) and Jack Preisig (Orange) collected the game’s B&F points.
