IRELAND - UK TOUR MATCH 3 RESULT
Saturday, 5 December 2009
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS TOPPLE WALES
The Australian Schoolboys have bounced back from their midweek defeat to Ireland to topple a strong Wales Under 19 outfit 10-6 at Colwyn Bay in North Wales overnight.
Winger Kimami Sitauti scored a try late in the first half as Australia fought hard to make the most of the wet and slippery conditions at Parc Eirias.
Playing their second ‘capped international’ in three days, Australia were determined to make the most of their attacking opportunities after failing to do so in their 15-nil loss to Ireland on Thursday.
The Schoolboys were on the board after 15 minutes when flyhalf Rohan Saifoloi slotted a difficult penalty shot to make it 3-0.
Saifoloi then found himself in open space and set up the Schoolboys try when he passed to fullback Jacob Woodhouse who ran the ball up to the line before offloading to Sitauti who crashed down in the corner.Saifoloi made the conversion to make it 10-0 after 30 minutes.
Wales fullback Dale Ford pulled the deficit back to 10-3 at halftime with a successful penalty goal attempt, and kicked another in the otherwise scoreless second half.
Australian Schoolboys manager Graeme Dedrick said Wales pushed Australia for the entire 80 minutes.
“We played some goods movements in the first half to put some pressure on the Welsh in really tough conditions,” Dedrick said.
“Wales didn’t back down, it was a really good grinding effort.
"We had couple of missed chances but we turned it up another level today. Our defence was of a very high standard."
The Australian Schoolboys next play England Under 19 Regional Academy in Lymm on Wednesday in the fourth match of their UK and Ireland tour.
AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLBOYS 10 (Kimami Sitauti try, Rohan Saifoloi pen, con) def WALES 6 (Dale Ford 2 cons)
