Queen City Vs Northern Colorado

Saturday 17th October was a perfect day for rugby. The Queen city Rams Were hosting the Northern Colorado Flamingo’s at Dicks Sporting goods field. The Flamingos were without 5 regular starters and a new look back line that included Nick O’connell at 12, Bobby Hyatt at 9 and Eugene Collins making his 1st start on the right wing. The Game kicked of at 2:40pm and right from the start both teams were keen to get the early lead. Queen city opened the scoring early with a try out wide after after re gathering a kick from their fly half and scoring in the corner. The flamingos were on the board not long after though with a successful penalty kick from Jeff Brundage.  Both teams continued to fight hard for the 1st 20 minutes of the half.  Fort Collins managed to score 2 tries to Nick O’connell which were both converted by Jeff Brundage.  Flamingos were up 5 – 19. The next Twenty was all Queen city. They applied great pressure to score twice in ten minutes to re take the lead. However after the sin binning of 18 year old rookie Bobby Hyatt, Northern Colorado dug deep to keep queen city from scoring again.

Half time score: Queen City 19 – Northern Colorado 17

The 2nd half was a great game of Rugby. Northern Colorado threw everything at Queen City, whose defence was up to the challenge. Queen City Scored 1st to extend their lead to 7 points.  That lead did not last long as Veteran prop Terje Whitmore crashed over for a try to the Flamingos. 10 minutes later while Queen city were down a man to the sin bin Drew Grigsby Showed great speed to beat three Queen City defenders to run 60 meters down the touch line to score in the corner. Northern Colorado were now up by three 24 – 27. The game continued to be an physical contest. With another Flamingo in the sin bin and a silly mistake on there own line, Queen City poached and scored a gift converted try to again take the lead with five left on the clock. There was one more opportunity for Norther Colorado  with a great attack scrum on the Rams 5m line. This however turned out to be the nail in the coffin with Queen City winning the tight head and scoring a final try a few phases later.

Final Score: Queen City 36 Northern Colorado 27.