Herts U18 Girls overwhelm Essex (and junior county result roundup)

Hertfordshire U18 Girls acheived an overwhelming 87 – 0 victory over Essex at Upminster on Sunday.
The Herts girls scored fifteen unanswered tries, along with six conversions.

With the match so early in the season, it was largely seen as a friendly warm-up for the London
and South East county tournament in December. Regrettably Essex were unable to field a full team
and so Herts loaned them a couple of their players, with the match set up as four quarters with
regular change-overs. While this allowed the coaches to try out a series of different combinations,
particularly in the forwards pack, it also made for a somewhat disjointed match with no real pattern
emerging other than Herts domination in both the forwards and backs.

Try scorers were Sydney Gregson with six tries, Marie Beaufils with three tries, Harriet Austin with
two tries, Corinne McDonough with two tries, and Bryony Pomfret and Elizabeth Crake each with
one try. Abbie Maxwell added five conversions with Stevie Farrow contributing one. Though tries
were fairly regular throughout, the opening five minute period in the second quarter proved telling
as Sydney ran in three tries, running some fine lines picking up the ball at speed from the centres to
find big holes in the Essex defence.

It’s fair to say that Essex weren’t able to provide the strength of opposition to really test the Herts
girls and a sterner test can be expected in the next match against Kent – always a tough fixture.

Herts team: Harriet Austin, Marie Beaufils, Catrin Bowser, Katy Cook, Elizabeth Crake, Hayley
Everett, Stevie Farrow, Melissa Gargaro, Sydney Gregson, Ellie Hurer, Chloe James, Emilie James,
Florence Jones, Hannah Jones, Abbie Maxwell, Corinne McDonough, Pat Metcalfe-Jones, Bryony
Pomfret, Megan Smith, Olivia Stembridge, Katy Walker

Other results:

U18s:

Cheshire 17 Yorkshire 12

Cumbria/Durham 5 Northumberland 7

Cumbria/Durham 0 Lancashire 10

Lancashire 7 Northumberland 12

Staffordshire 43 EastMidlands 7

North Mids 38 NLD 5

North Mids 50 Leicestershire 0

Leicestershire 0 NLD 21

Essex 0 Hertfordshire 87

Middlesex 15 Eastern Counties 32

Kent 7 Surrey 12

Hampshire 24 Sussex 5

Cornwall 0 Devon 51

Gloucestershire 36 Dorset & Wilts 17

Oxfordshire 24 Somerset 5

Oxfordshire 5 Berkshire 27

Berkshire 26 Somerset 0

U15s:

Cheshire 10 EastMidlands 17

Cumbria/Durham 19 Northumberland 5

Cumbria/Durham 5 Lancashire 29

Lancashire 38 Northumberland 7

North Mids 12 NLD 22

North Mids 10 Leicestershire 5

Leicestershire 34 NLD 5

Essex 10 Hertfordshire 86

Middlesex 34 Eastern Counties 5

Kent 40 Surrey 0

Hampshire 20 Sussex 25

Cornwall 14 Devon 46

Gloucestershire 17 Dorset & Wilts 15

Oxfordshire 12 Somerset 5

Oxfordshire 0 Berkshire 17

Berkshire 20 Somerset 0