Closing out our final home stand this year, the junior Bears took on the Castaway Wanderers for the third time this season, as our first outing turned out to be an exhibition game because of last minute schedule changes. It was an anniversary of sorts too, for the infamous game where we were short a player to field a squad and CW showed up with almost double the amount. We were far ahead in the standings at the time, so their coach offer us terms of default and we will lend you someone. Well, in what ended up being a tight game the boys chose to play one down for the duration and at one point early in the second half we had received two yellow cards, so for ten minutes we were three short. We came away with the win on a huge try from Thor Nobile bosching his way over the line. Though the two previous outings against CW this year were victories, they have been less than stellar performances however this Sunday was different.
The boys dominated from start to finish with eight different players scoring tries, Noah and Matt twice with seven converts total and a 64 to 0 finish. I think it was the first dry day all season with a balmy 8 degrees, which really proved to be an advantage to the junior Bears. Our ball handling was brilliant and nonstop with multiple phases. When CW kicked for relief it was ran back at them relentlessly. Our tackling was on point too with their big guns definitely hammering at us the whole game but the boys never broke on the couple goal line stances CW had, with the Bays always coming away ball in hand. Some standout performances from Danny Gordon, who seemed to be everywhere on the field and Ludo di Thiene for setting up many of the tries with his quick hands and unselfish game play. It was definitely a Bay Day!