Eastern Counties Rugby Union
Colts Festival
STOWMARKET COLTS FESTIVAL – SUNDAY 11th OCTOBER 2015
over 9 years ago | Lisa Greetham
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Stowmarket, supported by Eastern Counties hosted their annual Colts Festival, with an increased participation of no less than 18 sides, with 15 teams, representing 13 clubs within Eastern Counties, and 3 clubs from Essex. This must now make this one of the largest Colts festivals in the whole country.
Clubs taking part were :-
Stowmarket, Ipswich x 2, Hadleigh, Bury x 2, Colchester, Felixstowe, Woodbridge and Southwold, all from Suffolk, West Norfolk, Diss and Lowestoft/Yarmouth from Norfolk, Cambridge and Ely from Cambs, and Westcliff, Braintree and Mavericks from Essex.
It was great to see Harwich combining with Felixstowe to form a combined side.
All clubs were drawn into 4 pools, before knock-out competitions at their resulting positions.
The 5th place competition was won by Lowestoft/Yarmouth who beat Felixstowe.
Fourth place was won by Hadleigh, beating Stowmarket; Third place was shared by Woodbridge and Ipswich. Cambridge defeated Colchester for Second place.
In the Trophy competition, the Cup was shared by Bury and Brentwood based Mavericks, who drew 5-5 in a pulsating final.
The competition was managed by 8 officials from the Suffolk & North East Essex Referee Society, who used it as on opportunity for referee development, with no less than 4 aged 16 or 17 !!
Ross Cowie, Chairman of Eastern Counties Club/Community Player Development Group commented “what a fantastic day of rugby; it was superb to see over 400 young players taking part in a flagship event; it was great to have 15 sides from Eastern Counties participating, a real testament to the work put in by so many in try to develop rugby at 16-18 in the 3 Counties – a huge thanks to Stowmarket for hosting a day with no incident or issues, a real advertisement for rugby’s core values.”
Stowmarket, supported by Eastern Counties hosted their annual Colts Festival, with an increased participation of no less than 18 sides, with 15 teams, representing 13 clubs within Eastern Counties, and 3 clubs from Essex. This must now make this one of the largest Colts festivals in the whole country.
Clubs taking part were :-
Stowmarket, Ipswich x 2, Hadleigh, Bury x 2, Colchester, Felixstowe, Woodbridge and Southwold, all from Suffolk, West Norfolk, Diss and Lowestoft/Yarmouth from Norfolk, Cambridge and Ely from Cambs, and Westcliff, Braintree and Mavericks from Essex.
It was great to see Harwich combining with Felixstowe to form a combined side.
All clubs were drawn into 4 pools, before knock-out competitions at their resulting positions.
The 5th place competition was won by Lowestoft/Yarmouth who beat Felixstowe.
Fourth place was won by Hadleigh, beating Stowmarket; Third place was shared by Woodbridge and Ipswich. Cambridge defeated Colchester for Second place.
In the Trophy competition, the Cup was shared by Bury and Brentwood based Mavericks, who drew 5-5 in a pulsating final.
The competition was managed by 8 officials from the Suffolk & North East Essex Referee Society, who used it as on opportunity for referee development, with no less than 4 aged 16 or 17 !!
Ross Cowie, Chairman of Eastern Counties Club/Community Player Development Group commented “what a fantastic day of rugby; it was superb to see over 400 young players taking part in a flagship event; it was great to have 15 sides from Eastern Counties participating, a real testament to the work put in by so many in try to develop rugby at 16-18 in the 3 Counties – a huge thanks to Stowmarket for hosting a day with no incident or issues, a real advertisement for rugby’s core values.”
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