Garforth Tigers U-14s took on Fryston Warriors in a closely contested pre-season friendly encounter.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Garforth Today.Garforth Tigers U-14s 20 Fryston Warriors U-14s 28The game had everything you could wish for in a cup tie. Great rugby, fantastic atmosphere, dubious decisions, 100% effort and end to end action.
* Click here to make Garforth Today your friend on Facebook.For the first 10 minutes both sides were testing each other out with no-one having the upper hand.
Then with some slick passing Fryston opened the scoring. Not to be out done Garforth piled on the pressure with Connor making good yards up the right wing and some fast passing allowing Josh to burst through and score. A similar move down the left nearly allowed Alex in for a try.
Fryston hit back with some strong forward play through the middle. They managed to get the ball out wide and score in the corner, only after some doubtful handling.
Garforth dug deep and played some of the best rugby I've ever seen from them, pulling Fryston from side to side eventually giving them a 3 man overlap with deft grubber kick from Toby, Callum collected the ball and scored unapposed.
Toby adding the 2 points. After half time Fryston came out the stronger. Seeming to have all the possession which they put to good use scoring twice, Garforth regrouped with forwards, John and Ben gaining great field position, quick ball released Jude who in
turn passed to Josh who found a gap to score under the posts.
Fryston came close to scoring again but a knock on with the line waiting let Garforth off the hook, however Fryston continued to press and found holes in the defence to score again. Garforth got a second wind and a move up the left between Ben, Matty and Tom W with superb handling and off loads got us within 5 metres off their line and a dummy pass and dive over into the corner from Adam brought the scores to 26-20 to Fryston with 5 minutes remaining.
A mistake from Garforth gave Fryston a penalty in from of the posts which they scored. Again Garforth attacked this time Josh finding a gap to burst through but the final whistle blew with the Tigers 10m from Frystons line. A great hard fought game enjoyed by parents and players alike.
Coaches: Roger Slinn and Mick Taylor
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