On the 29th of August Room 7 and 8 had an opportunity to play rippa rugby and get to play against other schools.
In the morning room 7 and 8 organised our stuff and walked to Dunkirk with other students,teachers and parents/siblings. When we got to Dunkirk we went to sit down and get ready for our first game at 10:20 and practise our passing,catching,trying not to get our tags ripped by other opponents,and trying not to fend. When it was 10:20 St Patricks 2 headed onto field 8 and picked our starting 7.
When we got onto the field,we found out we were playing against Glen Innes school. At first I thought we were going to lose because there were some big kids in Glen Innes school and some looked faster than us, but we ended up winning in the end. We were so happy and especially St Patricks 1 won against Glenbrae.
Everyone was really happy and we kept practising our skills for our next game versus Glenbrae 1.We were all tired and exhausted from our first game,we were all not ready for our second one in 3 minutes.When we were finished warming up,us St Patricks 2 and Glenbrae 1 where getting organised our starting 7’s again and headed onto the field and i was one of them.I was really hoping I was gonna score a try because I was running with the ball, I didn’t because the other team was fast.We managed to get a try and won again by 7 to 3 (i think) .
Our third game was against Stonefield. Stonefield was really good at rippa and for a second we were almost closed to losing and not going to the finals.We end up winning at the end and made it to the finals but not st patricks 1 because they only won 2 games.We made it second place and Glenbrae 2 was first so that means we were versing them in the finals.All of the Glenbrae and St Patrick’s students where cheering and watching us play.
I was one of the starting 7’s and I was really tired out,i subbed out after a little while on the field,I was watching and cheering with everyone else and hoping we will win.it was 5 or 10 minutes until our game was over and both teams were tied and we kept subbing in and out everytime one of our teammates were tired.
We were so exhausted and tired from running that glenbrae 2 was catching up and being closed to winning.At the end we ended up losing.We were all hoping we will win but we didn’t but we were still happy for Glenbrae and happy we still went to the finals and came 2nd,I really enjoyed playing rippa rugby and getting to know other people from other schools.
