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Five teams competed for the Golden Santa this year: Washington D.C., Johnson City, UT, Knox1, Knox2. The weather was unfortunately nice and sunny this year resulting in some Santa 7s faithfuls to leave early in disgust (Boo was not one of those people).
Knoxville’s U23 side, The Colts, showed some really positive play against Tennessee Tech in Cookville today. With the help of a very grizzled and corpulent tight five, the young guys in the back line and loose forwards put on a show of entertaining rugby.
It was obvious when we arrived that we were outsized, especially at the inside backs. Those guys were huge. They didn’t look like any fun to either tackle or be tackled by, so we planned accordingly. Knoxville’s forwards and backs complimented each other really well for the whole day. We kept the pressure on at every opportunity as we knew we’d have a tough time attacking a larger side if we allowed them to organize.
KRFC’s U23 side has a match scheduled at Tennessee Tech on October 20th. All U23 players are encouraged to make the road trip. Kickoff will be at 1:00 pm CST. We’ll meet Cracker Barrel on Campbell Station Road at 10:00 am to drive over.
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KRFC’s U23 team, the Colts, had a convincing win over a depleted Sewanee team on Saturday with the help of a few Old Boys. Match report to come…
For the last time this fall season, the Possum faithful saddled up for another away game. This time we travelled across the plateau to play against the Nashville Outlaws. As 10 of us stood around and watched the 30+ men in black go through their warmups, we knew it was going to be another one of “those days”. Eventually the rest of our team showed up, and 18 guys put on our new possum jerseys ready to play ( Thank you Donna and Vince at Sports Locker ).
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