Disallowed Turvens Trys = District Championship Drama – Wassenaar Warriors International Rugby Club

BSN Turvens got off to a great start at the District Championships with victories over Hague, Rotterdam and Delft, which put BSN top of the group. In the knock out stages BSN first played the other Delft team and came agonizingly close, but with two BSN trys disallowed in the last minutes of the game, Delft won 7-5. Why on earth would you make a Turvens pitch with a painted white line 1 metre in front of a try-line made of a few cones! Particularly when the other referees played the white line…. small margins…. everyone was gutted.

The Turvens then played DIOK for 3rd/4th place. DIOK were down to 6 players and the referee enforced 6 against 6, which made it more of a challenge for the BSN defense with DIOK’s star player being abolutely rocket-ship fast! Even so, BSN looked like they were going to take the match right up until the last minute, but a foot in touch followed moments later by a disallowed try (one step too many after the tag) meant that DIOK won 7-6….. small margins.

After the disappointment of the knock-out stages faded, the team could reflect on a excellent 4th place out of the 17 teams in the tournament. Special mention to Bobby and Max who were joint leading try scorers with 6 each. Also to Marcos and Zachary, who kept going strong all afternoon, despite being on the receiving end of a lot of physical contact, especially considering this is tag rugby. Great moment when Marcos was powering up the pitch literally with two players hanging off his shirt!