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Phil & Marina Trevarton attended Penryn’s home game against Kingsbridge today to present the “Borough” with a couple of match balls to acknowelege their success last season.
Other presentations have taken place at Launceston, St. Agnes, St. Just and Veor.
Also cufflinks have been presented to the players and officials from last season’s Cornwall squad, with Penryn’s Grant Randlesome, George Jones and Marek Churcher receving theirs at the Kingsbridge game.
BillShort behind the scenes video, courtesy of Kevin Bishop on the yesterday’s get-together at Truro RFC. Cornwall Under 20s
BillClubs in quarter final draw.
1 Falmouth RFC
2 Veor RFC or Liskeard-Looe RFC
3 Pirates Amateurs RFC
4 Truro RFC
5 St Austell RFC
6 St Ives RFC
7 Penryn RFC
8 Wadebridge Camels RFC
Quarter Final Draw.
No 4 Truro RFC v No 1 Falmouth RFC
No 8 Wadebridge RFC v No 3 Pirates Amateurs
No 7 Penryn RFC v No 5 St Austell RFC
No 6 St Ives RFC v No 2 Veor or Liskeard-Looe RFC
Quarter Finals to be played on 30th November.
If there are any rearranged SW league fixtures on the above date then
Cup fixtures to be played on or before the 28th December 2019.
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Cornwall U.15 & U.16 volunteer assistant coaching positions x 4 required.
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Representatives from Cornwall RFU have recently met with Eden Project management team to add Eden to the sponsorship of our Senior XV for the Bill Beaumont Championship season.
Eden will be adding their logo to the new playing shirt that will be revealed at the Team Building event scheduled for February. The iconic Eden logo will be added to Tribute, Kelsall Steele and Brooks Macdonald as well as kit suppliers O’Neills’ logo, already on the playing shirt.
The CRFU are most grateful for the continued generous support that means that our players enjoy good opportunities to continue the success recently enjoyed.
Further details about the team building event are to be announced following the Development team game scheduled for Saturday 28th December at Wadebridge Camels RFC when the invited players will get their chance to stake their claim to join the existing Championship squad from 2019, who have already indicated their determination to retain the Bill Beaumont Cup.
BillCornwall U18’s 20 – 24 Exeter Chiefs Outreach Development XV
A preseason assessment match for both Cornwall U18s and Exeter Chiefs Outreach U18s on a sunny afternoon in Bodmin gave the spectators an entertaining match to watch, reports James Mills at Bodmin RFC
Chiefs started the brighter of the 2 teams and camped in the Cornwall 22 for the first 10mins, not helped by some needless infringements from the boys in black and gold. Cornwall were soon into the match and early signs were our lads had the upper hand at scrum time. Cornwall continued the pressure through a lively Tyler Dower at hooker probing the Chiefs defence on several occasions with strong purposeful carries. Eventually the pressure forced Chiefs to infringe and Kristian Davis at 12 took the option to kick for posts and take the first points of the match 3-0.
The game proceeded to be a good contest with both teams defence going at it but Chiefs managed to find away through after the Chiefs scrum half who looked a real talent all game managing a half break and off load out of the tackle to release the chiefs player to scamper over and score left of the posts which was converted. 3-7
With Cornwall in the ascendancy and with flanker Jack Mills for Cornwall gaining 4 turnovers, the pressure was on the Chiefs for the remainder of the half. Cornwall had 2 good opportunities, firstly off a sublime cross field kick from Cornwall flyhalf Kit May only for the Cornwall chasers to knock on during the gather a few metres short of the Chiefs line. The half finished with Jack Mills being judged to have been held up over Chiefs the line with Cornwall going into the turn around 3-7 down.
The second half was a similar affair with the scrum dominance from Cornwall but Chiefs taking the match early on, not helped by the needless offside infringements from our boys handing possession to Chiefs. Chiefs needed no invitation and they managed to break a midfield tackle to go over for their second score which was not converted 3-12
After yet more Cornish infringement and a quick thinking tap and go from Chiefs and a sleeping Cornish defence the Chiefs went under the posts with a converted score. 3-19
This appeared to have the desired wake up call for Cornwall and with Call Grohmann now on in the backs and full of energy chased down a loose Chiefs pass, putting huge pressure on their scramble defence to force a knock on. The Cornwall tight 5 packed down and with their dominance provided good ball for Huey Campbell to deliver good service to Kristian Davis now at 10 who span the ball out left to Freddie Davies, who popped it sweetly back inside to Davis on the loop and then Davis supplied the ball to fullback Eddie Pearce running a direct line who took the ball into contact with his opposite number and offloaded to the support runner Call Grohmann to finish it off for the score of the match. Not converted 8-19.
Chiefs were not done yet and replied with 2 man well executed overlap on the left wing to dab down in the corner for their final score which was not converted 8-24.
The remaining 15 mins was all Cornwall as Chiefs struggled to contain the now rampant boys in black and gold. Chiefs received a yellow card for cynical play and the pressure mounted. Tyler Dower who continued his excellent first half performance inspired the Cornish with a 30m line break. This sustained Cornish attack ended with lock Jack Hoskin, with Mills latched on with a neat pick and go to score from short range, again not converted 13-24.
Mills who continued to frustrate the Chiefs at the breakdown winning 6 turnovers, meant that Kristian Davis could kick it deep into the corner for a lineout maul. Chiefs infringed again by collapsing the maul 2m out and having just had the yellow carded player back on the pitch had to send their prop to the bin. Cornwall opt to scrum which they won with ease and now with Chiefs lacking numbers out wide, Davis throws a 2 man miss pass into the welcoming arms of fullback Eddie Pearce who goes over for a well deserved final converted score to end a fine match 20-24.
Many thanks goes to Bodmin RFC for hosting and in particular Dave Saunter and to CRRS for supplying the match official team
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BillCornwall U18s 21-12 Devon U18s
Cornwall U18’s took on county rivals Devon U18’s on a squally, blustery and very damp day at Callywith College, Bodmin, reports James Mills
The game started brightly with Cornwall hitting the ball up through double digit phases but being met with an equally competent Devon defence which was only ever going to end in 1 of 2 ways either with Devon conceding a break down penalty or the Cornwall lads knocking on. As it was Eddie Pearce (Cornwall) from full back running an excellent line but receiving an unsympathetic pass in challenging conditions failed to keep hold of the ball resulting in the first of 29 scrums in the match! It was clear from the off that on balance Cornwall had the edge in the scrum winning the first 2 Devon scrums and taking in all 3 against the head. Cornwall didn’t have it all their own way but only once did we get shoved backwards and we conceded 2 scrum penalties one in each half. Devon looked much more settled in the second half at the set piece but on balance the Cornish front row boys had a good day in the office.
With a strong westerly breeze, lineouts were always going to be difficult for the hookers and both sides suffered inconsistency and struggled to win clean ball. It was off such a line out 11mins into the game, on the Devon 22m line when a messy ball was gathered up at the back of the lineout by flanker Jack Mills (Cornwall) who span out of the first tackle, broke the next tackle and powered to the Devon line with a further 2 tacklers valiantly attempting to bring him down which they nearly achieved. Millsy wrestled the ball down for the first score of the match which Kristian Davis converted.
It was Jack Mills again creating the space for the Cornish second score by drawing 2 Devon defenders handing them off and then offloading to Saltash club team mate centre Freddie Davies running an excellent line in the newly created space to register the Cornish second score with fly-half Kristian Davis taking the additional points.
The first half finished 14-0 to the boys in black and gold.
The second half with the wind now abating but at the backs of the Cornish lads proved to be a much tighter affair, with Devon replenishing their ranks with plenty of fresh legs and as a result the Devon intensity noticeably increased as the some of the Cornish lads started to slow up. That said it was again another Saltash player Kristian Davis who opened the scoring with a great individual skill in broken open field play, spotting that the Devon defence was not organised and there was a mismatch on. Kristian pinned his ears back and accelerated into the space from 30m out and breaking the line with only the Devon fullback Brandon Bonser to beat which he did with a nice side step to leave Bonser on the deck with Davis dotting down under the posts. Davis converted his own try 21-0
Devon were far from done and very much wrestled control of the game back from Cornwall and replied through 2 scores of their own, each time through breaking a tackle or a missed tackle from Cornwall. However they only converted 1 of their scores with fullback Brandon Bonser failing to convert a challenging kick in the swirling wind and rain 15m off the right touchline. 21-12
These scores seemed to galvanise Cornwall once more and for the remaining 10mins Cornwall camped in the opposition half. Kit May the Cornish 13 with another trade mark cross field kick found winger Callum Preece who athletically jumped and took the ball on the full in the far right channel, darting in field with a 30m sprint with flanker Mills in close support. Preece looked good for the score but the Devon scramble defence was excellent and he was hauled down 1m short of the line and he was unable to get the offload to Mills away. Millsy was on station to duly secure the ball with Freddie Davies picking off the base to go over only to be held up over the line. This was the last real opportunity for either side to register points with Cornwall seeing out the match in Devon’s half to take a well deserved win.
Many thanks goes to CRRS for supplying the match official team who did an excellent job.
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Any fixture between Cornwall & Devon has a competitive edge to it and you can be sure that this Sunday’s Under 18 game at Callywith College, Bodmin will be no different.
Both sides are preparing for this season’s south west championship in December. The Cornwall squad is listed above. Kick-off is 2 pm.
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Cornish Pirates 30 Ealing Trailfinders 10
By Phil Westren
Playing not only their eagerly awaited first home fixture of the season but also an opening Greene King IPA Championship league game in 2019/20, the Cornish Pirates simply couldn’t have got off to a better start.
The visiting Trailfinders had finished runners-up in the past two Championship campaigns, besides having lifted the Championship Cup after beating London Irish in last season’s final, so for the Pirates merit marks were fully deserved.
All the hard work during the summer and autumn, both on and off the field, was seemingly rewarded, and following a wet spell the sun also showed itself as if in celebration.
Thanks to Dicky Evans and the work undertaken by committed individuals the ground looked superb. The new pitch surface impressed, as did higher new posts, whilst an erected big screen in the Newlyn gate corner provided an extra special addition to the match day experience.
Important in the context of the game, playing towards the Newlyn end of the ground the Pirates got off to a terrific start, with flanker Fa’atiga Lemalu in rampaging form and tries from wing Maliq Holden and man-of-the-match centre Nicolas De Battista putting the Pirates 10-nil up in just as many minutes. Fly-half Javier Rojas Alvarez was luckless with an early penalty and with an attempted conversion of the team’s opening try, however he added the extras to the second score and then landed a penalty midway through the half after his opposite number Craig Willis appeared fortunate just to be shown ‘yellow’ for dangerous play.
Although the Trailfinders hardly helped their cause by twice kicking the ball dead from restarts, approaching the half-hour mark full-back David Johnston was at least on target with a penalty effort.
Approaching half-time the Pirates needed to react and once again show who was in charge, and they did just that, a converted try by skipper Brett Beukeboom giving them a fully deserved 22-3 points lead.
On 51 minutes a second well struck penalty by Rojas Alvares put the Pirates further ahead, whilst they would soon be tested defensively for a lengthy spell. Pressurised inside their ‘22’ the team showed immense grit and determination in the tackle area, a will to give every ounce of themselves demanding admiration.
Ealing’s replacement scrum-half Jordan Burns, who has inflicted damage upon the Pirates in times past, managed to show a clean pair of heels to break clear and score a converted try, but the Pirates would soon hit back again. Identified from a mass of bodies at the clubhouse corner, the game’s final points, a bonus point try, was scored by centre Callum Patterson.
This result for the Pirates, especially in performance terms, will rank highly. These are though, early days, and I guess we shouldn’t get carried away just yet – should we?
Cornish Pirates: 15 AJ Cant, 14 Alex O’Meara, 13 Callum Patterson, 12 Nicolas De Battista, 11 Maliq Holden, 10 Javier Rojas Alvarez, 9 Alex Schwarz (Rhodri Davies 67); 1 Jack Andrew (Marlen Walker 47), 2 Tom Cowan-Dickie (Tom Channon 47), 3 Jay Tyack (Craig Mitchell 47), 4 Danny Cutmore (Matt Bolwell 63), 5 Brett Beukeboom (c), 6 Fa’atiga Lemalu, 7 John Stevens, 8 Will Wilson (James McRae 67).
Replacements (not used): Will Cargill, Robin Wedlake.
Yellow card: Mitchell.
Ealing Trailfinders: 15 David Johnston (Tommy Bell 70), 14 James Cordy Redden, 13 Jack Tovey,12 Pat Howard, 11 Reon Joseph, 10 Craig Willis (Stephen Shingler 46), 9 Nathan Fowles (Jordan Burns 45); 1 Jordan Els (Will Davis 40), 2 Alun Walker (Matt Cornish 40), 3 Craig Trenier (Elliot Millar Mills 40), 4 Sam Dickinson (Dave McKern 26), 5 James Cannon (Andrew Durutalo 63), 6 Kieran Murphy, 7 Jordy Reid, 8 Rayn Smid (c).
Yellow card: Willis.
Scorers:
Cornish Pirates – tries: Holden, De Battista, Beukeboom, Patterson; cons: Rojas Alvarez (2); Pens: Rojas Alvarez (2).
Ealing Trailfinders – try: Burns; con: Shingler; pen: Johnston.
Referee: Adam Leal
Crowd: 1772
‘Tribute’ Man of the Match: Nicolas De Battista
‘Glengoyne’ Try-of-the-Match winner: Maliq Holden
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Press Officer Bill Hooper was at the Redruth v Dings Crusaders game were he re-presented the TASC U.20 Shield to the 2019 winner Jack Hodge.
He also presented the Redruth players from the 2019 Bill Beaumont side with some TASC cuff-links as a thank you from the Army.
Players from other clubs will receive theirs in due course.
