The WOKSSA TAG Rugby Festival was held at Cranbrook Rugby Club on Thursday May 11.

Each school that attended was asked to represent a different country and players were encouraged to dress in that team’s national colours.

One school had to drop out of the competition at late notice so an All-Stars team was formed in their place. The All-Stars played as ‘England’ and this team comprised squad players from a number of schools who came together solely for the purposes of the festival to play together.

School Nation     1 Frittenden Romania I and II     2 Wittersham New Zealand I and II     3 Colliers Green Italy I and II     4 Headcorn Tonga I and II     5 Tenterden Juniors Wales I and II     6 Cranbrook Scotland     7 Rolvenden Ireland     8 Staplehurst South Africa I and II     9 St. Michaels Argentina     10 Pluckley France     11 Benenden Fiji     12 Sandhurst Canada     13 Lamberhurst USA     14 Hawkhurst Namibia     15 Claremont Australia I and II     16 All-Stars England

All teams played 3 matches in an initial group phase and were then seeded and placed into pooled groups for a second group phase. The group winners from the top 2 pools then played each other in the grand final. Colliers Green representing ‘Italy A’ beat Wittersham who were representing ‘New Zealand A’ 6-3 in the final. Colliers Green will now represent WOKSSA at the Kent County finals in Aylesford next month.

The winners of the fair play trophy were Staplehurst and the winners of the best dressed nation were Benenden representing Fiji.

Grand Final

We would like to say a huge thank you to Mandy Stevenson (providing refreshments from the clubhouse) and the players from Cranbrook Rugby Club (refereeing) who kindly volunteered their services for the event. Sports Leaders from Angley and Homewood School also did a great job as pitch managers and scorekeepers.

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