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Taft fresh/soph lose their first league game.
The Fresh/Sophs started behind by just having 4 players out leaving them with only 15! Two were sick from Spring Break, one is still dealing with an injury from Basketball season so they were playing with out subs!. They played harder thien their loss a few weeks ago. Tackling was improved but just to many new players having to eat minutes. Abd having only got 5 mins or so in the first game , made the move to wing and brought the big hits. Jad also stepped in at Center and him and Jordan made a solid pairing in the middle forcing several knock-ons with their pressure. Demetri and Anthony were again the great leaders at 9 and 10. Demetri after a few high tackles at the beginning of the game really settled in and impacted the game with his hitting. Demetri had a great run off the scrum from about 25m out for Taft's only score of the first half to end the half 29-5. The second half started strong defensively. Taft repelled Neuqua well. Fadi, Baran making strong contributions in the forwards. The subs probably got to us after about 15 minutes and they were able to get a try. Taft was able to answer though with a series of pick and goes from the base of the ruck! Pagan finally put the ball over and made the conversion to raise Taft's score to 12! The boys fought hard and with our 4 missing player maybe the outcome will be different in May when we play again!