Ormskirk RUFC

Eccles WRUFC    14

Ormskirk Ladies  47

Tries : J Leitch (3), A O’Malley, K Johnson, R Cowan (2)

Conversions : J Leitch (6)

The trouble with Ormskirk Ladies is that they just don’t look like a rugby team.  Locks Gail Kendall and Cath Nixon look like schoolgirls - spindly and jejune.  Hooker Kristin Harkins, scrum half Katie Johnson and centre Anna O’Malley are … well… put it this way; if Snow White ever becomes an equal opportunities employer, she has three outstanding candidates.  And winger Rachael Cowan is obviously a top model who, no doubt under the influence of drugs, has somehow mistaken this rugby club for a House of Couture.  Only No 8 Emma Gander really looks the part, a glowering Balkan beauty who men can only hope to conquer after a fist fight.  But that’s just one.  So the opposition relax and five minutes into the game they find out that this bunch of misfits can actually play … not just a bit, but a lot.

Eccles were big and sturdy but just couldn’t match the mobility of the Ladies.  Playing ten a side and with uncontested scrums Eccles were unable to make their weight count and spent most of the first half chasing shadows.  Fly half Jenny ‘No Jugs’ Leitch, winger Cowan, scrum half Johnson and centre O’Malley ran in long range tries.  ‘No Jugs’ converted all of them to give the Ladies a 28-0 half time lead. 

Cowan could have had 5 tries in the first half.  However, it is a little known fact that during the 14th Century nobody called Cowan caught the Black Death.  And true to her bloodline Cowan caught hardly anything in the first half.  In the second half her team mates, in desperation, started to throw the ball at her face in the hope that it would stick to her top model’s make up.  It worked and the pacy princess notched another try.

Meanwhile ‘No Jugs’ Leitch was continuing to amass points.  Kicking conversions with metronomic regularity wasn’t enough for her and she ran in two more tries to register

her third unjugged hat trick of the season. 

Eccles were rewarded for a battling performance with two converted tries of their own and will certainly not take the Ladies lightly the next time the two teams meet.

Thanks to Sam Botfield for another entertaining report.