After a strong start to the season, the Harden Red Devils are ready to take on the Boorowa Goldies in what will be a grand final rematch for the men’s squads.<\/p>\n
This weekend’s matches have followed on from a strong weekend out against Temora on Saturday, 2 May.<\/p>\n
The Harden She Devils came up against a strong Temora Tuskerettes squad, and despite putting on fierce competition, Temora were able to finish the game with a 22-7 win.<\/p>\n
Despite the scoreboard, Harden’s Charlie Brown said it was a pretty tight hustle for the majority of the game and were right with Temora right till the end when the visitors put a last couple of tries in.<\/p>\n
The She Devils started well, scoring first points and leading up until half time. The girls showed great ball skill and defence to go in 7-7 at the half. <\/p>\n
In the second half the Tuskerettes came out with great defence, putting Harden under pressure and finding holes in tired defence later in the half.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown said with Temora being last year’s premiers they are the benchmark for Harden to get to through the season.<\/p>\n
Also contributing to the result was a larger bench from Temora, with Harden having two reserves on the bench, with Mr Brown saying it is hard to play a full game performance with only two on the bench, no matter how fit you are.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown said they will play together more, nail down their structures and come up against Temora again with a bit more confidence.<\/p>\n
In the men’s match, Harden fared a little better, coming away with a 31 – 5 win over the visitors, despite the game being called early due to a couple of injuries in the second half.<\/p>\n
Mr Brown said the boys had a good win and were playing pretty well on the day.<\/p>\n
With continuous pressure, Harden was able to cross for a few quick tries giving the Devils a strong early lead, however Temora showed up strong, running hard and making their tackles count.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to this weekend, with a grand final rematch, and both squads currently undefeated, Mr Brown said this will tell them how they are going and what they need to improve on.<\/p>\n
This weekend is set to be a massive weekend with Harden and Boorowa contesting for the Annie McGuigan Shield, as well as Harden celebrating the club’s fiftieth anniversary.<\/p>\n
“This is probably the biggest day on the calendar that the rugby club has had for the four or five years since I’ve been involved with it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Everyone is pretty excited.”<\/p>\n
The women’s match will kick off at 1:30pm and the men will kick off at 2:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a strong start to the season, the Harden Red Devils are ready to take on the Boorowa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-654303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}