11th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 14 A v Wesley College White

Wow what an exciting game we had on Saturday. the U14's played Wesley White and really put the pressure on. Another 10 minutes and I dare say our team would have won the game! Very exciting stuff with a lot of the second half played right on the Ardmore Marist try line. Final score was 36-27 win to Wesley.

16th July 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 13 B Blue v Pukekohe

Ardmore Marist 13B Blue 12 - 5 Pukekohe

A good close game played by two very even teams with Pukekohe having the best of the first half & then us coming back after halftime.

It was 5-0 to Pukekohe at halftime but our boy’s (and girls) came out firing in the second half & never gave them a chance due to very good defence & the forwards giving the backs good clean ball to use which they used to good effect.

Merit and Forward of the day: LIAM GOLDFINCH who along with all of the forwards had a great driving game.

Player of the Day: KANE NOLAN who was unlucky not to score a couple of try’s with some neat footwork and complemented it with some great defence.

This win put’s us at the top of the table with a couple of hard games to go after the holidays – well done guy’s !

18th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 13 B Red v Onewhero

Ardmore Marist U13s Red 0 vs Onewhero 76

Played Onewhero on Saturday, they were a difficult team to get past but the boys tried their best. Unfortunately for us the score was 0/76 to Onewhero. Congratulations to William Langley who was player of the day and best forward (second weekend in a row), also to Taina Enoka- Clark who was best back

18th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 12 A v Papakura Wasps

Ardmore Under 12A 10 Papakura Wasps 12

A game that could have gone either way. Papakura played extremely well and defended their line well for the last ten minutes. Our team played well in patches but ultimately made too many mistakes to win. The field was very heavy under foot and maybe our boys didn't adapt to the conditions. We had a chance to draw the game with the last conversion of the game but missed. Plenty to work on for the upcoming games.

21st May 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 11 A v Papakura Wasps

Ardmore Marist 34 – Papakura Wasps 0

This week we were taking on Papakura and after our loss the week before we really wanted to make some big improvements and come away with a win and we did. You could tell from the start our team was a different team than the week before with everyone putting in 110%. The forward work was outstanding and the backs looked sharp on every move. All the effort put in at training really paid off and even drew complement from the opposing teams assistant coach saying that he was really impressed with the teams structure and how everyone stayed in position and did their jobs. The scoring was opened up by Sonny Te Hira after space was created on the outside by some of the best forward work that I had seen and this was quickly followed with Levi Te Hira scoring under the posts. The forwards worked hard through the whole game securing the ball for the next phase of play at the breakdown and winning their own and opposition line out ball. Tyrone Kopua scored twice with some awesome footwork and speed, Zion Lotulelei used his strength to get over the try line and Jamie Gillett ran some nice angles and was rewarded with 5 points. Joel James made some big runs and won the ball at the breakdown more than once and Joshua Smith made an impact every time he was on even though he had only arrived in the country at 4am that morning. All in all I think the boys worked really hard and deserved the win.

Player of the Day: Tyrone Kapua

Merit: Jack Wilson

Tries:

Tyrone Kopua x2
Jamie Gillett
Zion Lotulelei
Levi Te Hira
Sonny Te Hira

Conversions:

Sonny Te Hira
Toby Seabrook

25th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 11 B Blue v Karaka Black

Ardmore Marist 5 - Karaka Black 59

Not a great day yesterday with a 59 - 5 loss to Karaka Black. Karaka were a very good side. We did do some good things in the break down but too often our tackling and our go forward in attack let us down. Our speed out wide was not a factor as they were even quicker. Next time we might have to go up the guts.

We now have a week off to lick our wounds and get ready for Bombay who we met in Round 1.

2nd July 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 10 A Green v Papakura Wasps

We had a fantastic win in the weekend, and the whole team pulled it together and played exceptionally well together.

Final Score: Ardmore Marist 60-20 Papakura Wasps

Captain: Chayse Dawson

Player of the Day: Chayse Dawson & Connor Silvester

Merit of the Day: Taine Smith & Tawera Tuhi

7th May 2011 - Ardmore Marist Under 10 B Blue v Drury

Win to Ardmore Marist 70-15

A good start to the season. That school holiday training may have worked! The whole team played well for their first game. There were quite a few tired faces at the end of the match and choosing who got the awards was extremely difficult. We asked the other team to choose who they thought was our best player. Player of the Day was Cameron Church and Merit award went to Michael Manuatu. Well done guys...well done team... keep up the good work.

6th August 2011 - Ardmore Marist Under 10 B Red v Pukekohe

Ardmore U10B Red 5 Pukekohe 40

The team played well against a very good Puke side and were in the game until ½ time. We put ourselves under pressure with rushed passes and aimless kicking both the result of relentless pressure from the opposition. Connor played outstanding, was player of the day and scored the only try.

6th August 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 9 A Black v Karaka

7th May 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 9 A Green v Karaka

Our boys played awesome under lights on Friday night, but unfortunately lost to Karaka 45-25.

We had no subs on the night, so our boys all put in an amazing effort to keep going for the full 50mins!!!!

With a 4 try effort player of the day went to Adam Clark. And having never played a game of rugby in his life before, the merit award went to Balraj Janda.

11th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 9 A White v Weymouth

Ardmore Marist Under 9A White played their first away game of the season at Weymouth on Saturday. It was a close competition, with our boys not used to playing in muddy conditions with a greasy ball. Both teams scored 3 tries and we all agreed that the draw was a fair reflection of a tough match. The boys did however enjoy getting dirty and finished the game with big smiles on their faces. This was the 6th game of the season and of those we've won 3 and drawn 3 games with the most memorable so far being our win over Karaka the previous week of 9 tries to 1. Player of the day on Saturday was Cale, Merit award went to Ryan and our "Best Moment" of the game went to Jayden for his try scored from the kick off.

11th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 8 Blue v Ardmore Marist Red

Red won 50-45

Ours was a great game! Neck and neck the whole game - well, a bit of a run away during the second half on the part of Red, but Blue almost caught up with a final score of 45 - 50 with Red taking the win! Congratulations! Also, well done to our first time ref Ryan Eyre.

11th June 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 8 Red v Ardmore Marist Blue

Win 50-45

This was a 50 minute battle between 2 very good sides with the Blue team showing great strength and determination in the forwards under coaching from Alesio Petelo. It was a hard day tackling for the boys from the Red team, but they stuck to their guns and never gave up even though the game swung both ways throughout the game.

The boys from the Red team had to work very hard to retain possession and when they got the ball out wide they had the edge with speed from the backline. The forwards had to fight hard to win the ball and Gabriel Marshall, Daniel Magee and Zane Mitchell all had good solid games against a larger forward pack.

The backs had their job cut out ffor themselves having to put in the hard tackles to prevent the Blue team from scoring. Tackle of the day went to Edward Elworthy-Jones for a very determined tackle just before half time.

Captain - Gabriel Marshall

Player of the Day - Edward Elworthy-Jones

Merit Award - Daniel Magee

7th May 2011. Ardmore Marist U7 Green v Karaka Red

Our boys played very hard and enjoyed themselves. Under 7 Green played Karaka Red and won 9 tries to 7.

Player of the day was Jack Bennett

2nd July 2011 Ardmore Marist Under 7 Red 'The Red Dragons' v Ardmore Marist Under 7 Blue

Ardmore Marist U7 Red Team 'The Red Dragons' 65 points to Ardmore Marist U7 Blue 60 points

The red dragons were lead out today by Brayton Taare (Captain for the day) who scored two long range tries to show the boys that determined running from the start is one way of getting to the tryline!! Player of the day Joel Glenn-Campbell showed a lot of heart to come back onto the field and get some great rips after taking a knock earlier in the game. They say defence wins games and our strong men - Reece Latu and William Couldrey showed just how good they are in holding the defence line together. William getting the most rips for the day!! Adam Robson was just behind William on the rip count and added another great try to his tally, and certainly knows the quickest way to the line - straight up!! Jordan Scanlan worked tireless all day and always seems to back his mates up on attack and defence. Mitchell (the speedster) Court and Steven (the stepper) Misa both collected 4 tries a piece today as well sharing the work load on defence with 8 rips a piece. Reminds us of a famous wingers pairing from Wellington dont you think!! Last be not least Corban Glendinning, who collected 2 tries today through simply backing his mates up all day and scored the winner right on full time!!

To Darryl Robson (assisting on the field with boys to enable the coach to referee), Andrea Couldrey (Manager for the day as the boss was working) and Jason and Leith Court - (personal team photographers) a big thanks from Craig, Tracey and the boys of "red dragon team" for your continual support. Also to the other parents, grand parents, uncles and aunties who participate at trainings and saturday warm ups thanks also and we hope that some of the injuries sustained due to trying to keep up with the boys recover before next weeks training and game!!!!

2nd July 2011 Ardmore Marist U6 Yellow v Karaka White

Ardmore Marist 45 Karaka White 75

Our kids got a hiding from Karaka in the weekend. Karaka's defence speed and tackling, which I am sure should of been off side since they were pulling our boys up for forward pass? This game seemed a bit professional but it gave our boys a wake up call to what to expect in the future when we play against Karaka.

But I take my hat of to the kids because they had fun playing in the long run and that is what it is all about, the final score being 15/9 to Karaka. They did how ever get off to a great start with Karaka getting the first 3 goals one after the other they had excellent ball skills awesome back up and full on defence against our team.

AWESOME game Karaka