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The team are on the look out for new players. Anyone interested in playing girls’ rugby, training takes place on a Wednesday evening at Brantingham Park Rugby Ground from 4.30 - 6pm. For further information contact Claire Montague on 07814461823.
  Hull Ionians Girls get off to a flying start.
Despite having only started since Christmas the Hull Ionians Girls rugby union squad managed to come third out of a field of 12 established teams at this year’s Pocklington Woman’s Tag Rugby Tournament in May.
With most players aged between 11 and 14 the Hull Ionians girls had a tough task as they came up against many older and more established sides from across Yorkshire and the North East. The Hull Ionians girls only started training in February and draw most of their numbers from South Hunsley and Snaith schools. With this success under their belts they are looking for new recruits to take them further and they have already entered into a newly formed girls Rugby Union league in Yorkshire for next season; this will see them playing clubs such as Malton & Norton, Doncaster and Bridlington
Hull Ionians’ first game put them up against local rivals, and regulars at the tournament, Doncaster who certainly had the upper hand in terms of experience. Although this did not count for much as Hull Ionians ran out winners due to great speed and handling ability, with the pace of Jess Thompson, Rachel Deighton and Jade Campey proving pivotal. This was also key in the next game where they were comfortable winners against Rockliff 3rd’s with some tremendous work from Rachel Parker, Kassidy Rollin and Kim Ogden.
Malton & Norton were the next opponents for Hull Ionians and proved just too strong, although Annabelle Davies, and Kirsty Harley did a great job to help keep Hull Ionians in the game until the end. Although with many Yorkshire players in the Malton side it was a great effort by the girls. The next game Rockliff 2nd’ s saw the Hull Ionians girls getting back into winning ways in a game that contained some tremendous tries. The last game was against Pocklington where a solid win put Hull Ionians through to the semi- finals which was just rewards for the effort and skill that all the girls demonstrated in their first ever tournament.
Their semi-final put them up against Rockliff’s 1st team and it proved to be a closely fought match right until the end. Rockliff took an early lead but Hull Ionians hit back using their substitutes wisely to only trail by 2 tries at half time. The girls came out in a determined manner for the second half and a great breakaway try by coach Claire Montague gave real hope of reaching the final, but two more tries by Rockliff put the game beyond reach despite Hull Ionians’ Gemma French scoring an impressive consolation try with the last play of the game.
Credit must go to all the girls who played tremendously well throughout the day and all showed great potential. There will certainly be a lot more still to come from this young Hull Ionians side.
The team are on the look out for new players. Anyone interested in playing girls’ rugby, training takes place on a Wednesday evening at Brantingham Park Rugby Ground from 4.30 - 6pm. For further information contact Claire Montague on 07814461823.