European Championship U18 - Tarbes

The CSCE U17 players listed below are selected for the U18 European Championship
We'll leave on Thursday from Glacis at 16:30. Please, be there at 16:00 latest.

BAUR Niclas
BONALLO Calum
BOONE Xavier
BOONE Yannick
DENNIS William
DOOLEY James
DOOLEY Michael
HOPWOOD Matthew
LAVIS Louis
LOWTHER Lucas
MURPHY Andrew
RAMOS Pedro
RIZZI Michelangelo
ROSSA Christopher
SIMPSON Benjamin

Luxembourg 66 - Schilde 5

Weather: Sunny
Temperature: 22°
Pitch: Hard
Kickoff: 13:30
Spectators: 67
Ref: M. Oberts (*****)

Luxembourg:

Last Saturday, Luxembourg Cadets received Schilde for the last game of the regular season.
With promotion to Division 1 guaranteed, the Cadets wanted to finish in beauty playing good rugby and staying unbeaten in front of the best crowd we have seen at Cessange this season.

Maybe because they wanted to perform too well in front of the huge number of parents and friends present or maybe because the team was in its large majority composed of first year Cadets, in first half we saw a Luxembourg team too anxious to be able to perform well and struggling to keep the usual fluidity of their game. They allowed Schilde some possession which ended in a try on the 22^nd minute. Fortunately, before this try, Martin Pacaud had kicked two clever kicks deep in the opposition half and the good follow up ended with Gauthier Lachaise scoring the first try and Martin scoring the second.

Even struggling to keep their rugby structured, Luxembourg scored two more tries before half time when Michi Rizzi came behind a scrum to score and a very good counter attack ended with Gauthier scoring again. Martin converted 3 of the tries and at half time the score was 26-5.

If in first half Schilde could contest for possession and territory, second half was all Luxembourg. Reentering the pitch less nervous and much more composed, Luxembourg superiority was never in doubt and the reward came with 6 more tries. Julian Vercruysse scored two on the wing after very good transmissions in the back line. Gauthier scored his third in the afternoon with a solo run after receiving the ball from a restart. Robert Irons scored in a good counter attack and Martin added two more. Martin converted 5 to settle the final score 66-5.

Another good performance from the Luxembourg Cadets to end this excellent season unbeaten, having scored 731 points in 12 games, conceding only 42 and showing a discipline in and out of the pitch applauded by referees and adversaries. This result is even more impressive knowing Luxembourg aligned 45 players (3 whole teams!) in official games with 23 players scoring points. It shows the quality and depth of junior rugby in Luxembourg and how things look promising for the big challenge in Division 1 next season.

Congratulations.  

Man of the Match: Christian Olsen

U17 Belgium Cadets Division 2 / Luxembourg-Schilde

Tomorrow, April 2, we'll play the last game of Belgium Cadets Division2.  We receive Schilde at Cessange

Stade Boy Konen
rue des Sports

Cessange

Kick-off 13:30

The players selected players for the U17 game must be at Cessange at 12:00

The players selected for the U19 game must be at Cessange at 13:30

IMPORTANT: Don't forget an ID Card or Passport. You cannot play without it.

To end this magnificent season and commemorate as you all deserve we organise a small party at Cessange. We would like to see you all there : players not selected, injured, parents, brothers and sisters, girlfriends, friends, friends of friends. Please come, the weather looks promising (22° !)  

As usual (but this time even more) I regret we cannot play all of you. Unfortunately it’s the way it is and we still can only align 22 players.
This season 43 of you have already experienced to be on the pitch in an official game. We’ll give the same opportunity to some more on Saturday. For the players selected I’m counting on your usual commitment. For the players not selected, you know you’re fully part of the team and it just happens you don't play this game. There will be plenty of opportunities next season and don't forget it will be First Division.
The players in standby should come at 12:00 and bring the rugby gear. If there's a last minute absence, you're in.

Please, if you're not available to play on Saturday let me know as soon as possible. 

 Selected U17:

BARRAGAN Jaime
BECK Antoine
CHRISTENSEN Jesper
CLARKE Sean
DANIEL Marco
DUCREUZET Pierre
IRONS Robert
JOLLIFFE Seiji
LACHAISE Gauthier
LAVIS Louis
LOWTHER Lucas
MURPHY Andrew
OLSEN Christian
PACAUD Martin
PENN George
PESCHEUX Charly
RIZZI Micky
SALA Peter
SCHWENGLER David
SYRI Dylan
VASQUES Johannes
VERCRUYSSE Julian

Standby: ,  DUMONT Léopold. LAMBERT Oliver. WOYWOD Maximilian (possible U19)

Selected U19:

BONALLO Calum
BOONE Xavier
BOONE Yannick
DENNIS William
DOOLEY James
DOOLEY Michael
HOPWOOD Matthew
LIMPACH Jason
RAMOS Pedro
ROSSA Christopher
SIMPSON Benji