Camberley Academy U18 – 35 Guildford U18 – 10
U18 EMRU National Colts Cup - Sunday 18th October

In the warm midday October sun, Guildford U18s kicked off this second round tie in the EMRU National Colts Cup towards the Camberley clubhouse.

Camberley gathered the ball and went of in search of the visitors try line only to find a solid defence and some good opening tackles from Guildford.

Three minutes in and quick turnover ball from a Guildford breakdown saw Cambo make a fast break up the left middle of the pitch to put Adam Musa away in the far left hand corner to score the opening try, failing to convert, Camberley took the lead 5 – 0.
On the sixth minute, Guildford gave away a penalty, the quick tap taken, the ball was played well through the hands and with some hard straight running lines, Adam was over again to the left side and scored his second try of the day, without the extras, Cambo now led 10 – 0.

Guildford played their way back into the Camberley half and a clumsy penalty for obstruction was awarded to the visitors within range of the posts and the kick successful, the score was now 10 – 3.
Following the frenetic opening exchanges, both sides settled into the match and were competing well and playing good rugby.
Guildford kept pressuring Camberley and testing their defence which had to work hard; and in attack, the Academy played to their strengths and tested Guildford’s defence.
Keeping the pressure on Guildford, finally Camberley forced a penalty within range of the sticks and duly kicked by Adam Musa, Camberley took the score to 13 – 3.
Around the twenty minute mark, Guildford conceded a penalty and another quick tap and go saw a gap in the Guildford defence, Matt Larcombe went racing in to score Camberley’s third try, again, without the conversion Camberley were 18 – 3 up.
Late in the half, a well worked move of a Guildford penalty line out deep in the Cambo 22 saw some great handling from the visitors who played the ball well and ran strongly through some slack tackles, scored their opening try under the Camberley posts, with the conversion successful and the half time whistle upon us, the half ended 18 – 10.

Renewed vigour at the start of the second half from Camberley saw Matt Larcombe tearing away down the right side to be seemingly over for a try, only deemed to have been held up due to a great scramble defence and work on the floor by Guildford.
This disappointment seemed to inspire the team and after ten minutes a successful Camberley scrum in the middle of the park saw the Academy kick deep into the Guildford half.
The kick was chased down and from the resulting breakdown, Camberley turned over the ball to regain possession, with the support quick and in numbers, some good handling saw Matt finally score on the right side.
With no conversion the score now read 23 – 10.
Guildford played hard for the rest of the match but couldn’t find a way through the solid Camberley defence and when attacking, Camberley managed to keep the visitors on the back foot.
Camberley scored their fifth try when Ed Grosvenor saw a gap in the Guildford defence and scored under the posts, this time Adam managed to convert and the score was now 30 – 10.
In the final play of the match, one last quick tap penalty saw Ed score his second try and without the conversion the match drew to a close, Camberley 35 – Guildford 10.
It was a well fought competitive cup match played hard and in good spirits.

Academy Man of the Match was Shawa Rai, his work rate, open field and break down play today was exceptional, well played Shawa.

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