Grand Championship
Valley Black 12-10 Gai Wu Falcons
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 16:30
National 15s WNL1-A: Grand Championship
City Sparkles 8-5 Valley Red
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 15:00
National 15s WNL1-B: Grand Championship
HKCC 17-7 HK Scottish
@ KGV, Kick-off: 16:30
National 10s: Grand Championship
Tin Shui Wai 5-10 Revolution SRC
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 16:30
Undefeated league champions Valley Black Ladies proved too strong for HKFC Ice, easily advancing to the Grand Championship final. HKFC Ice bowed out after a strong debut in the Premiership. Coach David Wigley commented on their season saying: “Valley are a level above everyone, but we’re really pleased with our first season in the Premiership.
“We had quite a few injuries early on, but we’ve come on and got stronger. This is a tight-knit group that play for each other. We came in fourth this season and we would have been happy to finish 5th or 6th at the beginning of the year, but now we feel like we can contend against the likes of Tigers and Gai Wu. We’re still at a learning and building stage, but we’re very happy with our performance.”
In the other semi-final, Gai Wu Falcons came up with an emphatic 24-5 win over USRC Tigers to set up a rematch of last year’s Grand Championship final with Valley. Speedster Aggie Poon Pak Yan collected a brace for the Falcons, with Hong Kong fifteens captain and No.8 Chow Mei Nam, and up and coming sevens star Chong Ka Yan, adding tries in the statement win over Tigers. Falcons coach Lai Yiu Pang was proud of the performance saying:
“We went out and executed our game plan, particularly with our defence and our play at the breakdown. It was a really tough game and the team deserves a lot of credit. It was a big win for us and will give us a some momentum. It was also good to get a bit of revenge after Tigers edged us out of second place in the league.”
It will be a rematch of last year’s Grand Championship when Valley beat Falcons 20-10. “It is going to be tough against Valley, said Pang, “They have a lot more size then we do so we’re going to need to be clinical in our defence and tackling. But we have built some strong momentum today. The win over Tigers was really good for our confidence and we deserve our place in the final,” Pang added.
photo: Valley RFC
source: HKRU
Grand Championship
Valley Black 74-0 HKFC Ice
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 15:00
USRC Tigers 5-24 Gai Wu Falcons
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
National 15s
CWB Pheasants 10-16 City
@ KGV, Kick-off: 18:00
Valley Red 13-12 Revolution SRC
@ So Kon Po, Kick-off: 18:00
HKCC 48-7 Tai Po Dragons
@ Aberdeen, Kick-off: 18:00
HK Scottish 17-7 Police
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00
National 10s
Tin Shui Wai 26-5 City
@ Tin Shui Wai, Kick-off: 14:00
Revolution SRC 12-10 CWB Pink
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 15:00
Grand Championship
Gai Wu Falcons 76-0 Kowloon
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 16:30
HKFC Ice 27-12 CWB Phoenix
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 18:00
USRC Tigers 62-0 Tai Po Dragons
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 19:30
National 15s
Gai Wu Fawkes v Revolution SRC
@ Happy Valley, Kick off: 18:00
USRC Tigers 7-19 City
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 16:30
Tai Po Dragons 3-0 Police
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
HKCC 38-10 HK Scottish
@ Aberdeen, Kick-off: 18:00
10s Grand Championship
Revolution SRC v DB Pirates
@ So Kon Po, Kick-off: 16:30
CWB Pink v University
@ So Kon Po, Kick-off: 17:15
City 54-10 HK Scottish
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00
In the seven-team Women’s Premiership Valley Black Ladies stormed through the league undefeated for a second straight season, closing out their 2015/16 league campaign with an emphatic 49-12 win over their nearest rivals, Gai Wu Falcons.
Valley was paced by fullback and New Zealand Black Fern Olivia Coady, who scored five tries, four consecutively with two on either side of halftime, in the eight-try rout over Falcons, the last side in the Women’s Premiership to hand Valley a loss – in the 2013/14 season.
Sevens star Stephanie Cuvelier opened the scoring with an early try, but Falcons replied almost immediately through a try from their own sevens sensation, winger Aggie Poon Pak Yan leveling the scoring at 5-all early on.
After Poon’s tally it was one-way traffic for the league champions with Coady doing all of the driving, scoring two tries for Valley in the second quarter. Bella Milo added a penalty between the first two Coady tries, and a conversion on Coady’s second, to give Valley a 20-5 lead at the half.
Coady completed her natural hat-trick shortly after the re-start – securing the bonus point for Valley – before adding her fourth consecutive score to push Valley out to a 30-5 lead. Sam Scott added a fifth try for Valley, followed by Jen Mackay before Coady collected her fifth with five minutes remaining. Milo’s conversion brought the score to 49-5 before Falcons picked up a consolation try through Chong Ka Yan, the successful conversion bringing the final score to 49-12.
All the weekend’s results here
Source: HKRU
