Rugby National Elite League Play Off Semi Final v Hartpury College (Home)

Confirmed for Wednesday 21 April 1415 at Worthing Leisure Centre. Hartpury College are partners with Gloucester RFC and we are looking forward to the fixture after the Easter holidays (visit their website and view their results). For more details contact the college on 01903 243389 or by email at info@worthing.ac.uk.

Rugby National Elite Cup Semi Final v Filton College (Home)

Confirmed for Wednesday 31 March 1500 at Worthing Leisure Centre. Filton College are partners with Bristol RFC and we are looking forward to hosting them tomorrow afternoon (visit their website at http://rugby.filton.ac.uk/ and their results at http://www.schoolsrugby.co.uk/schoolteamfixturelist.asp?TID=76125&Id=2296). For more details contact the college on 01903 243389 or by email at info@worthing.ac.uk.

Worthing College IXV in British Colleges National Elite Cup and League Play Off Semi Finals

Worthing College will host two of the nations rugby elite in the coming weeks. The season is coming to an exciting climax with both Filton and Hartpury due at the Leisure Centre for what promise to be very exciting games. Worthing are on the back of good form at U19 level with a 100% success rate in all competitions and a settled side made up of strong units. For many of the lads these will be the last home games in college colours as the national finals are to be played at a neutral venue.

We look forward to seeing you at the Leisure Centre for KO at 1500 this Wednesday.

Worthing Make Rosslyn Park 7s Semi Final

Proud, surprised, elated, excited and energised all of the thoughts and emotions after two days of tough rugby 7s competition in London. Worthing set off on Thursday morning on a trip into the unknown on the Disco bus of destiny.

 

Worthing were in a pool with Farnbrough, Peter Symmonds and Amman Valley from Wales and the format determined that only the top team form each group would move forward to the quarter finals the following day. This coupled with the lack of experience in playing 7s was enough to predict a really tough days work and possible non return for the second days events but that was for later on.

 

Worthing kicked off at 11am v Farnbrough, laying down plenty of good tackles, scoring even more trys running out 59-0. This was an interesting start and made for plenty of confidence going into the second game v the Welsh visitors.

Valley came into the game having fought out a tough draw with Peter Symmonds and that pointed towards a very challenging encounter for Worthing. So to the start and Worthing were clearly up against a strong, organised, skilful and experienced side that had played lots of 7s rugby before. Worthing went down by two scores and were looking down the proverbial barrel of a big fat gun.

But excellent performances from the whole side created a last play score by Short converted by Leeming to snatch a well earned draw and set up the winner takes all game against Symmonds.

So pass out the ammunition and lets go to war. Worthing did not really look at the races and leaked points by the bucket load. Again the gun made an appearance and again a closer inspection of the said proverbial metallic object made for unhappy viewing. But a team with character doesn’t know when quit so Worthing played with heart, miles and miles of heart and struggled back to beat Symmonds. Excellent performances from everyone, a great team spirit and enthusiasm for what was to most a new sport helped Worthing to the show.

 

So day two Worthing had been drawn against a very strong Colstons side that was very impressive on day one of the competition and had cleared all before them with little trouble. So was it to be a 4 hour round trip for just 14mins of rugby? Well all in good time, but Cinderella was definitely going to the ball and she was looking pretty good and didn’t fancy turning into a pumpkin any time soon.

Quarter finals on a big Rosslyn Park pitch had a few of the girls nervous (excellent), some excited and but all ready to do their part. Kick off came and it was time to ‘Fix up and look Sharpe’ and that they did. Worthing went down to two trys in the first half fortunately only one was converted. So at half time a few worlds of encouragement from the coach and the girls went back out with a zesty tang chasing a place in the semi final. So the last 7mins of play in the competition or so one may have thought?

Worthing heaped pressure on to the opposition and scored the first try (12-5 Colstons) Leeming hit the post with the conversion but Worthing were on the score board. So ‘Big Mo’ was firmly with Worthing as the last minute of the game began. More and more pressure was pilled on and Worthing scored the equalling try and conversion. Full time whistle and with the score 12-12 and the Sue Barker question was on every ones mind “What happened next”. Well ‘Golden Point’ was the shout more effort, energy and enthusiasm needed to get one of these sides over the line and into the Semi final.

Worthing went directly onto the offensive taking advantage of a couple of indifferent officiating decisions, this leading to more pressure in the opposition’s 22m and great press defence put Worthing further onto the front foot and then the decision that turned it all. Penalty 15m out in front of the horns, Leeming asked if she could go for the shot and that she did, slotted between the posts and that was all she wrote. Worthing win 15-12 with a golden penalty kick.

 

That was the performance of competition by the girls and in reality was the final for Worthing. Hartpury the eventual winners of the competition were the semi final opponents and they were a match to far. The experienced rugby players winner through 45-0 Worthing not having the technical or tactical ability to live with the Gloucester side. So Cinderella did go to the ball and did eventually lose her lavish dress and slipper, but she is still a real beauty in my eyes.

 

 

Well done girls and thanks for all of your efforts across the two days.

 

Liz Leeming

Caitlin Kay

Alison Moore

Liz Anderson-Easy

Lizzie Northeast

Nikki Gatland

Amy Wilson-Hardy

Sophie Frost

Megan Priest

Megan Cave

Briony Short

Yasmin Eager

Hallsy's Academy Report - Week 17

The Worthing College Football Academy based themselves at the new home of football, Hill Barn with both Men's and Women's side taking on opposition from around the south. Pensioners and dog walkers alike were treated to a feast of football with the weather for once being kind and the only rain around was that of GOALS, GOALS and GOALS. In all 22 goals were scored across the three matches and Worthing contributed to 14 of these strikes. The quality of football from all games was plain to see and wouldn't look out of place at the top table of Sussex County Football.

It was a great experience having both Men's teams playing side by side, so it gave me a chance to observe how well the 2nd XI have developed this season and on the basis of their performance on Wednesday they could easily challenge a number of teams at 1st XI level, which is great credit to Danny and all the players who have been involved. The 2nd XI hosted Uxbridge and needed to get back on track after a couple of lacklustre performances. The rust seemed to be shaken off at the 2nd XI came out 6-0 winners with another 3 efforts disallowed. The scorers on the day were Liam "Des" O'Connor, Zaki Rahman and Phil Charman, who all hit braces. A special mention must go to Aiden Dayer, who had a goal ruled out, which would have been his first for the Academy and a well deserved goal that will be when the time comes.

Meanwhile the "rain" was now torrential with the 1st XI putting eight past their opponents, local rivals Sussex Downs. After his first successful attempt of sports reporting Worthing stopper James Fernandes again takes up the match action...

Worthing College vs Sussex Downs
Half Time – Worthing 4-1 Sussex Downs
Full Time – Worthing 8-1 Sussex Downs

Line – Up
Fernandes
Boxall
Heward
Staines
Giammattei
Clark
Jearum
Rance
Standing
Mannings
Herbert

Subs
Dowell
Carey

Goal scorers
Herbert x4
Dowell x2
Mannings
Standing

First Half

For Worthing College this would be their 2nd game in 3 days so the team knew they would have to dig in deep to pull out a result today. The start of the game couldn’t have got any better for Worthing College as Herbert put them 1-0 up in the space of minutes. Following on from this a couple of minutes later Mannings done well down the left and put in a deadly ball only for Herbert to pop up again and finish nicely 2-0. Worthing were playing decent football which lead to their third in 10 minutes, Good play by Jearum and Clark winning tackles and it was Jearum that played a pin point pass to Mannings on the wide left who cut inside and used his pace and slotted it under the keeper 3-0. Worthing began not to keep the pressure on and this lead to Sussex Downs scoring, the left winger cut inside and played a ball into their striker who turned Boxall and fired past Fernandes 3-1. Worthing let Sussex downs come forward again for 10 -15 minutes but good defending from all the back 4 players (Giammattei, Staines, Heward and Boxall) kept them at bay. 4th goal of the half came from Clark winning a tackle in the midfield and playing the ball out wide to Standing who threading the ball to Herbert who beat one player and finished past the goalkeeper in a one on one situation. 4-1

Second Half

Worthing came out to the second half knowing that the job was still not done, so the team began to play keep ball and work on and off the ball. Eventually they were rewarded when Herbert got his 4th goal of the game breaking through and beating a couple of players and finishing. 5-1. Confidence was high from Worthing and manager Dave Hall made his first sub by introducing Dowell who was swapping for the hard working Mannings. Dowell immediately made the impact by getting on the end of a cross to tap in a well crafted Worthing move. 6-1. Good organised defending was key today and it showed in the confidence of all 4 defenders. On the other hand Fernandes was forced into making a low save when the defence were caught napping but the corner was cleared and Worthing were back in control. From the break Worthing worked it down the right Boxall doing well to find Standing who finished from the cross nicely. 7-1. Dave Hall made his final sub by bringing off play maker Clark and introducing Carey. Carey was already involved with play by pulling off a nice one 2 with Giammattei who fired the ball up field for Herbert to chase, no options for the striker who laid it back to Dowell who was lurking around 20 yards out and hit a shot straight into the top corner. 8-1.

To conclude a "wonderful" Wednesday for the Football Academy with the 2nd XI seemingly back on track and the 1st XI now unbeaten in three matches, scoring 12 and conceding just 2 in that time. Maybe we should give you boys a rest more often!!

Lets keep this run going!!

Onwards and upwards,

Hallsy

Worthing 2nds 18 Brockenhurs 31

Worthing went to the New Forrest and started to take care of business in this semi final clash in the southern region of the performance competition. A great start with all of the pressure being provided by the Worthing college wolf pack, but huff and puff as they would the Brockenhurst house of bricks stood firm. This up until a great bit of counter rucking by Walsh got Worthing the first 5 pointer of the game.

 

More effort and all of the territory but no more points to show for the efforts. Disappointing as the visitors played all of the rugby and the home side were struggling with the pace of the game.

At the half Worthing looked at building on couple of areas, the main one being the attacking through the mid field where Jordan and Stirling were the class of the field. Hills was running the game well and Hubbard was working very hard to get the forwards over the ball and get the backs moving.

 

With the start of the 2^nd period Worthing had a slope and gusty wind to contend with, but no fear the visitors were playing some very nice rugby and looking as if they could deal with anything thrown their way.

 

Not so much…… there was a period in the second half where it all went a little bit northwards.  4 unanswered scores in 20mins put paid to the Worthing charge, or did it? From somewhere some of the chaps got their game faces back on. Trys were scored by Worthing getting themselves back into the mix with the front row really starting to take care of business, Burgess, Chatfield and Wigzell doing a little bit of a demolition job being ably supported by the back five. Birch and Patrick won their share of line out possession and the well balanced back row was destructive, combative and organised (although White did go missing on occasion).

A good decision to take an easy 3 pointer with 5mins to go left the score 24-18 to the home side and Worthing continued to pressure up the home D. unfortunately on the last play fo the game Worthing were turned over and conceded the counter punch that could not be answered.

 

Final score Brockenhurst 1^st 31 Worthing 2^nd 18. A great effort by the Worthing side with vital and valuable contributions made by all concerned and a mega thank you to those travelling players that did not get to take the field your efforts especially welcomed.

 

So what can we taken from this nearly story? A tale of close but not close enough or we are just not good enough. Well I’d venture to the former, chances to win but not taken, players playing well but not well enough, a few mistakes cost the place in the final against Collyers.

 

So in conclusion here is the naughty little secret, player responsibility, to take control of the game when given the chance, to condition themselves during the off season and maintain with good nutrition and focus during the season.

 

Winners win, losers lose and blame someone or something else and quitters inevitably quit being forgotten and lost to history. Pride dictates we bounce back showing pride and Wingmanship to each other and take responsibility so we can return victorious again.

 

Congratulations and good luck to Brock, the second of two great games this year between us both, lets hope we catch a break on the flip side.

match report 24/3/10

worthing V west kent

we arrived in west kent to find that the leisure centre we were playing in had a very small court, the out of bounds was the surrounding walls. it was going to be a tight affair.

running scores were impossible to work out from the jumbled score sheet that was kept. however, individual scoring was kept.

the game was a close affair, we started well & gained an early 10 point advantage in the opening period but west kent rallied. we subbed freely & used our whole bench. west kent hung around & did just enough to stay close. we played some great team basketball & made it look easy in spells. but at the half we only had a slender 6 point lead.

again we made changes & switches on the defensive end but west kent had found their feet & crept into a 3 point lead. we had fallen asleep & went away from what we had been doing well, moving the ball & cutting to their hoop. 

we were down heading into the final quarter. but we kept our heads & took the game to west kent on both ends. we frustrated them with our defense & forced them into silly mistakes. we took the lead in the final minutes & west kent lost their cool! 3 of their players picked up technical fouls & louis harris calmly stepped up to the free throw line & sealed the win for us. going away..85-74! a good team win & performance.

scorers;

jack ryan- 2 points

mimo habib- 4 points

ollie hunt- 5 points

matt sharp- 5 points

tanaka munjeri- 10 points

tom wyatt- 11 points

ian marshall- 12 points

louis harris- 36 points

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Hallsy's Academy Report - Monday Night Special

Due to the adverse weather conditions this winter Worthing College Football Academy 1st XI still have 8 games remaining, therefore this extra Monday game took place against top of the table and unbeaten City College Brighton and Hove. Stand in skipper for the day and goalkeeper James Fernandes takes up the action...

Worthing College vs Brighton City College
Half time – Worthing College 1-1 Brighton City College
Full Time – Worthing College 3-1 Brighton City College

Worthing College Line – Up

Fernandes (c)
Taylor
Colwell
Staines
Giammattei
Clark
Dowell
Nemeth
Standing
O’ Connor
Charman

Subs:
Herbert
Rance

Goal scorers:
Dowell
Nemeth
Herbert


First Half

Worthing knew that they had a big test ahead of them in this match with the quality that Brighton City College have. Due to suspensions, illness and unavailability manager Dave Hall had to use some of the 2nd team players to boost his squad. Worthing started to first half brightly knocking the ball around nicely and winning headers and tackles etc. Brighton City College obviously are a very talented group of players and they started to get into gear as the half went on. Brilliant work by Clark in winning headers against tall opposition, Nemeth with his quick feet moved towards the left hand channel, pulled off a nice pass with Standing and from this Nemeth received it back moving away from his marker and winning a free kick just past the half way line. With a strong wind behind Worthing in the first half they knew they had to test the oppositions defence, from this Giammattei stepped up confidently to take the free kick and delivered a superb ball over the top and there was Dowell leaping to nod it past the goalkeeper – Worthing 1-0 Brighton City College.

Brighton City College by now had stepped up a gear pushing men forward more often but Worthing’s centre backs Colwell and Staines stood firm and played a very good game. The opposition kept coming and Fernandes had to come out confidently to catch 2 crosses to calm things down, throughout the first half the shape of the back 4 was top class. Eventually the goal came for the opposition when good movement down the right channel lead to their striker picking the ball up and blasting past Fernandes – Worthing College 1-1 Brighton City College. There was a big call for the referee during the build up of the goal because one of the Worthing defenders feels as if they were fouled in the build up which lead to the striker scoring. The game was starting to fire up as tackles were beginning to fly in from Giammattei, Colwell, Staines and Clark but all successfully winning their tackles. Right Winger O’ Connor was working hard to help Taylor out and managing to get up with play as well to help striker Charman which showed great work rate. Charman showed off his strength by holding off their centre back and pulled a shot wide of the post. End of first half.

Second Half

The message from manager Dave Hall at half time was to keep battling throughout the half and get a result. Worthing had the disadvantage of playing against the wind this half so they knew that they needed to keep tight at the back. From the whistle to start the second half the Brighton City College central midfielder tried a speculative shot from inside his own half but was caught comfortable by Fernandes. Worthing started the second half as well as they did in the first, passing the ball nicely. Standing and O’Connor were making brilliant runs down the left flank and the right flank which were picked out a couple of times nicely by the three midfield players Nemeth, Clark and Dowell. As the half went on passes starting to string together from Brighton City College, their captain beat 2 Worthing players and pulled off a shot which Fernandes was equal to by putting the ball around the post. Worthing progressed and Colwell pulled off a brilliant block to deny the opposing striker, from this Clark picked up the ball and thread through a brilliant ball to Nemeth who beat one man and sent O’Connor on his bike after the ball down the right wing, O’Connor pulled of a excellent cross which Nemeth ran onto and headed past the goalkeeper – Worthing 2-1 Brighton City College.

Worthing had now moved up a gear with the encouragement of people watching from the sidelines and Dave Hall. As the game moved on Dave Hall made his first substitute by bringing off work horse Standing and replaced him with Rance. On the other hand Brighton City College knew that they had to get back into this game and started to flood men forward and it took an amazing block on the line by Taylor to deny the oppositions left winger. Worthing were now under pressure and needed to get more of the ball and play their own type of football, manager Dave Hall made another substitution by introducing Herbert who replaced Charman, Herbert went straight to the striker position. He made a big impact by scoring about 10 minutes since coming on when the ball was played through to him and Herbert running on to it 1 on 1 with the goalkeeper and slotting it under him – Worthing 3-1 Brighton City College. Dowell had moved into a more defensive side to the midfield and winning tackles well. Taylor and Giammattei offered pace down the left and right wings, whilst Staines and Colwell stood firm to deny any more attacks from the opposition from Brighton. Full Time

As you can tell from the report another fantastic team performance from the lads. The players that came into the squad were excellent and this gives me a few headaches for the remaining games. The Academy as a whole has developed so much this season and great credit must go to each Academy member for the efforts and abilities throughout the season. However we are now 2 wins out of 2 and now must go into the next game (Sussex Downs) full of confidence.

Lets keep this run going!

Onwards & Upwards,

Hallsy

FW: RUGBY VERSUS GODALMING

 

 

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From: Robert Warner [mailto:robwarner@hotmail.co.uk]
Sent: 20 March 2010 09:55
To: Price, Tina
Subject: RUGBY VERSUS GODALMING

 

                                        GODALMING A LOT WORTHING 7

                                        " AN OUTSIDER LOOKING IN "

                                               M.O.M.  WIGZELL

 On a sunny March afternoon we made our ways to Godalming, that is myself and the College 2nds Rugby Team, I would be an " An outsider looking in!" my son had played rugby for Worthing for 7 years so I was not quiete a complete novice, and probably would understand most of what I saw. What I did see was a completely commited team, who had at least 50% of the game and didn"t deserve to loose by such a big margin , to many mistakes and handling errors cost the Worthing side dearly. It was a shame for a side to loose so heavily to a team who Worthing had matched in many areas, the Worhing scrum and maulling was better than Godalming, and the forwards worked tirelessly. A special mention goes to Jo Walsh who was superb as  Captain, and also I must mention Dowglass and Wigzell who had worked so hard for to little reward well done chaps!

On the whole a entertaining match to watch with some great rugby from Worthing at times, behaviour on and off the pitch was fantastic, so well done Ben and the Rugby Academy!                               

 

 

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Netball 1 - 35v Bhasvic 30

This Wednesday saw us travel along the coast to the East for a change to local rivals Bhasvic in the BCS league – a win would secure the league for us so victory was extremely important. We knew that they had some good players with 4 of them playing at regional level so we looked forward to a closely fought game.

 

With the 2^nd team not in action, a squad of 11 was taken – with Emma Luke and Cassie Birch coming into the 1^st team squad.

 

Shooting has not been our strong point of late so the starting line up was changed with Hannah Carey coming in at GA with Amber O’Brien GS, Laura Finlay at WA, Nicky Gatland at C, Briony Short at WD, Caitlin Kay GD and Mele Stubbs at GK.

 

With changes to the normally starting line up, a slow start was to be expected and there were no surprises there – unfortunately the passing generally was careless and shooting stats were not good. Defensively we were sound and ended the quarter 9 – 6 up. Georgia Williams came on at GA and Lizzie Northeast at WA and the movement was better, although the shooting was still not at the level required. The passing was still careless however again the defense were strong and we extended our lead, 19-10 at half time. Decided this time to change the defense to give Cassie a start at first team level and Hannah Carey at GD, by taking Briony and Caitlin off we lacked aggression in defence (Hannah and Cassie – a definite area to work on)  although both players worked hard. We won the third quarter by 1 and went in 29-19.

 

With the shooting still not at the level required, it was time to bring on Emma Luke for her first start in the 1^st team – not an easy thing to ask of anyone but Emma was up for it and Amber moved out to GA. Caitlin was brought back into defense with Briony taking over at centre from Nicky Gatland. It is amazing how long 15 mins is and how quickly a comfortable 10 goal lead can vanish. Bhasvics tails were up and we were soon only winning by 2. We could have cracked but fortunately the girls stood firm and the shots started going back in – with 1 minute left we had a 5 goal lead and the coach was able to relax.

 

An interesting day from the coaches point of view. Having spent this week working on timing and passing its back to the drawing board as this was clearly not successful.

 

Well done for holding your nerve girls.

 

This result does mean we have won the BCS League prior to playing Chi on 21.4.10