The Bayside
Sharks headed out to Jericho Beach Park for a matchup with
the UBC Old Boy Ravens. Bayside looking to rebound after a
tough loss versus UVIC the week before, looking to shore up
their defence that had allowed 53 points to the students.
The Ravens were looking for their first win of the season
after opening their 2010 campaign with a loss to James Bay.
Bayside opened
the game pressuring the Ravens, after some good work by
Bayside they earned a 5 meter scrum, the ball was released
from the scrum out to the Shark backs, the ball ending up in
center Matt Miles hands, who broke the gain line but
couldn’t quite make it across the line, but a quick cycle to
the oncoming forwards, and prop Taylor Stogryn, who pushed
his way over the line to score between the posts, Eric
Sugawara hit the easy conversion, 7-0 for Bayside just 12
minutes in.
20th
minute, Ravens opened their scoring with a Penalty through
their scrumhalf, Ed Fairhurst, 7-3 for Bayside.
25th
minute, Bayside matched the Ravens earlier Penalty, with one
of their own through Sugawara, 10-3 for Bayside.
In the 32nd
minute, Bayside used their territorial advantage in the
first half and turned it into points, off a 22 meter dropout
by the Ravens, it landed in the hands Bayside #8 Pat
Bickerton, who took the ball up, after he was tackled, the
ball was moved out to the backs, center Matt Miles made a
nice pass to hooker Levi Hansen who was hanging out in the
centers, he found a gap in the defence, and took it toward
the Ravens line, then as the last defender for the Ravens
came to tackle Hansen, he off loaded to Miles, who sprinted
the last 10 meters to score between the posts, Sugawara
conversion 17-3 for Bayside.
Halftime score
17-3 for Bayside. Bayside had all the possession and had
the score to show for it at halftime, looking like they were
on their way to a win, but the Ravens had something to say
about it.
5 minutes into
the second half, the Ravens cut into the Sharks lead, with a
penalty from Fairhurst, 17-6 for Bayside.
A minute later,
a turning point in the game, Bayside Flanker Cass Conkin was
shown a yellow card for repeated infringements at the
breakdown.
54th
minute, after the Ravens pushed deep into the Bayside 22
meter, close to the goal line, and were awarded a 5 meter
scrum. Bayside scrum, down a man, was out muscled across
the line by the Raven scrum to score a pushover try,
Fairhurst converted, 17-13 for Bayside.
The Ravens
continued to be camped in the Bayside end, even after Conkin
had returned from his 10 minutes in the sin bin, he could
not subside the wave of Raven forwards, as they kept on
driving 1 meter at a time, keeping possession of the ball,
forcing the Sharks to infringe.
69th
minute, after another one of those infringements, the Sharks
were penalized within the range of Fairhurst, who cooly
slotted another penalty, 17-16 for Bayside.
Bayside now was
just holding on barely to their lead by one point now, a
lead that was a total of 14 points now was down to one.
Bayside had their chance to get out of their end, a couple
times but unfortunately dropped balls, and poor choices kept
them hemmed into their end.
With 2 minutes
left in the game, the inevitable happened for Bayside, one
of the Sharks was judged to have tripped one of the Ravens,
after yellow cards were shown to a player from each side
after get together of both teams after the trip. Fairhurst
stepped up and slotted the penalty, to give the Ravens a 2
point lead 19-17.
With only two
minutes left, Bayside tried to get into the Ravens half, and
they did, set themselves up for the Drop goal to win, but
the ball was bobbled, and there was not even an attempt.
The full time
whistle went, and Bayside had blown a 14 point lead, and the
Ravens had a great comeback. The game truly was a story of
2 halves, the first half was all Bayside Sharks, and second
half was all Ravens. Bayside walks away from that game with
a Bonus point, and sit at 0-2 after 2 weeks, time to get
going and start getting some wins, next weekend they host
Burnaby Lake.
Player of the
Game: Pat Bickerton and Eric Sugawara
CDI First Division-Week 2
Bayside Sharks 17 at UBC Old Boy Ravens 30
5 min
Raven
Penalty
3-0
9 min Bayside Try(Chase Sereda)
Conversion missed 5-3
10 min Raven Try
Conversion Missed 8-5
30 min Raven Try
Conversion Missed
13-5
32 min Bayside Yellow(Jeremy Bergman)
35 min Bayside Yellow(Nathan Redford)
36 min Raven
Try Conversion Missed
18-5
Halftime score
18-5 Ravens
43 min
Raven Try Conversion
Missed 23-5
55 min Bayside Try(Soko Kacj)
Conversion Missed 23-10
60 min Raven Try
Conversion Hit 30-10
69 min Bayside Try(Robbie Clifford) Dan Dixon
Conversion 30-17
The Ravens held
most of the possession and territorial advantage, but
Bayside had their chance, but the two yellow cards at the
same time taking the Sharks down to 13 men versus 15, and
the Ravens took advantage of it scoring 10 points when they
had the advantage.
Player of the
Game: Soko Kacj and Chase Sereda
Second Division
Bayside Sharks lost to Scribes
