This past Friday the East Rugby program in Salt Lake City hosted the East Rugby program from Denver, Colorado. East Vs East, a battle for the Rocky Mountains you could say. East SLC scored first when Senior Wing David Bergstedt grabbed the loose ball on the sideline and ran for the score. Junior Fullback Rex Bateman missed the kick East SLC 5East Denver 0. Bateman scored the next try but Senior 8-man Papa Matelau made the line break to set up the score. The Bateman kick would be successful. East SLC 12 - East Denver 0. East Denver scored next but missed the conversion attempt. East SLC 12 East Denver 5. Matelau would score off an 8 man pick to close out the first half. Bateman’s kick from the far side was no good. East SLC 17 – 5 East Denver at the half.
East Denver would score first in the second half. The kick was no good. East SLC 17 - East Denver 10. It would be all east SLC after that. Junior Prop / Lock Fatusama Mapa would score next for the Leopards. He took a nice off load and headed down the sideline and touched the ball down right under the posts. Batemans kick went right down the middle. East SLC 24 - East Denver 10. Fullback Rex Bateman would score his second try on the weak side off a scrum with a pass from Junior Scrumhalf Andy Flandro. Bateman would convert. East SLC 31 - East Denver 10. The last score of the match came from Naisa Puletau with great support on the sideline. Bateman would just miss the kick from the far side. Final Score: East SLC 36 - East Denver 10
It was a great opportunity to host East from Denver. The players, coaches, and parents were all outstanding and it really made for a fun afternoon of rugby. You can read the match summary at the link: https://issuu.com/bdbdbd13/docs/eve
Up next the Leopards will face off against Herriman. We hope to have this scheduled soon but this match will be during the week next week (the week of April 22 to April 26th). We will send details as soon as it is finalized.
We would also like to congratulate our East 7th 8th grade team who played Herriman on Saturday. Each team held a 4-0 record going into the match and this would be for first place in Division one. It was a very competitive match. The halftime score was East 12 – Herriman 12. East broke it open in the second half and won by a final score East 38 –Herriman 17. Awesome day for the young Leopard squad.
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