It was a tight game. Hermione Farmer scoring the first try within the first half; breaking their defence so quickly, the poly was quaked. Ellie Howard, whom she regards herself as a “fluke” disproved that statement with a glorious conversion. We were winning. We got 7 points. They got 0. The poly was quaked.
It was constant attack and defence for 60 or so minutes until we were caught off guard when they scored a try. It was now 7-5. It was a difficult game – at this point, it was unclear which team would win. For 60 minutes the two teams were so close to scoring but both teams kept playing hard; stopping each other in every moment that a try was nearby. Regardless, the atmosphere was brilliant, hundreds of people, I could best describe it closely to that of the World Cup Final between Argentina and France – intense.
NUWRFC refused to back down and 11 years of grief manifested in such excellence in game play, the poly were now really quaked. Quaked so hard they fumbled within the last minute. We got a penalty within the last minute. Ellie Thompson scored within the last minute. We won. We won 10-5 by the last minute.
But, we truly won with the size of our club. Over 100 members and 3 teams – spectacular for women in sport. Spectacular for women in rugby. In this year’s varsity we not only made the poly quake once, but three times.
by Maria Pace