You are here: Match Reports / Sevens/ Strathendrick 21st April 2007
| Following weeks of intensive conditioning and a training schedule that showed meticulous attention to detail the Hill’s Sevens squad departed Hughenden on their season’s odyssey for success and shiny trinkets. Hill’s were drawn to against Hamilton (featuring players sporting matching hair-tints, diamonte earrings and lurid coloured boots) and Alloa. Facing Hamilton in the tournament curtain raiser Hill’s struggling to acclimatise to the lack of oxygen at the higher altitude but achieved a credible if uninspiring 12-12 draw. The result could have been different but for an unidentified area of freak metrological high pressure in front of the Hamilton posts that rendered Tarbot’s late conversion attempt little more than a daisy cutter, much to the surprise of the assembled spectators and global rugby press. The second match saw Hill’s face an eager Alloa team who were mercilessly put to the sword in a 60-0 whitewash with trys arriving with the frequency of a bottle of cheap port on a bus trip. Notable performers included Dewar and Todd whose scintillating turns of pace are believed to have triggered local speed cameras. In the remaining pool match Hamilton were unable to match Hill’s earlier score against Alloa and as a result Hill’s progressed to the semis to face Lenzie. Match details are vague with only Tarbot’s dynamic rucking and subsequent “gun” posturing remaining in the memory longer than the final whistle. Suffice to say that Hill’s won and progressed to the final. Facing Stirling County, Hill’s “put on a show” starting the match with a burst of 3 unanswered trys before going on to register 50 points before the final whistle. Indeed so inspired was the play that even Fisken, J was able to contribute a try, much to the delight of his parents. Try-of-the-tournament was possibly scored by Cahoon whose audacious chip-and-chase try early in the first half broke the spirits of the opposition and paved the way for a feast of running rugby. At the final whistle the Hill’s bench erupted in the kind of ecstasy usually reserved for discovering a 6-for-the-price-of-4 promotion on supermarket alcohol. Squad: Cahoon; Dewar; Fisken, D; Fisken, J; Fraser; Muir; Paterson; Rose; Tarbet; Todd and Bell, D. Burger Watch: The Strathendrick burgers received 2-stars on the International Bell Burger Rating (IBBR) – possibly still breathing but edible if reasonably priced. |
