Tavistock U15s 67 Stonehouse Sharks U15s 14 TAVISTOCK completed the season in style against a Stonehouse side missing several key players. Tavistock started the game at a blistering pace and made good use of the firm dry pitch to get the ball wide at every opportunity. Flying winger Billy McNicol showed a clean pair of heels to the away side's defence and rounded the fullback and winger to score a fine opening try under the posts. George Hillson added the conversion. The long-legged Cameron McKie ran in from the twenty two for Tavistock's second, which Hillson converted before Billy McNicol, who was excellent with the ball in hand all game, again showed his pace to race into the corner. The try of the game came next with a neat exchange of passes from Dan Willis and Ben Milligan creating space for Ethan Lamerton to score in the right hand side. Full back Bernie Sadler also showed his pace, latching on to the end of a flowing backs, move and racing around to score under the posts, Hillson again expertly converted. Stonehouse dug deep after this early onslaught and strung together several phases of play to score late on in the first half. Tavistock, however, were in no mood to let them back into the game and Ethan Lamerton soon scored his second with Hillson converting right at the end of the half. In the second half Stonehouse started the brighter and their strong forward drives soon led to their second score. The home side's forwards kept the pressure up, however, with Ben Luke securing several turnovers and Scott Morris, Will Gardner, Steve Kirby, Harry Jeans and Theo Cousins challenging at every breakdown. George Murrain showed his rugby skills moving from hooker to fly half in the second period and he looked to keep his side moving forward with some slick handling and deft kicks. Scrum half George Hillson commanded the base of the scrum and ruck and looked to keep Stonehouse on their toes by mixing his passing between forwards and backs and some clever box kicking. The latter stages of the game saw Ben Milligan weigh in with two tries. One was expertly converted by Hillson from nearly on the touch line while the second was after an exquisite pass from the scrum half which enabled him to catch the ball at full pace and race clear. Captain Theo Cousins got a much earned score after driving over from close range before Chris Watts showed a lovely step and turn of speed to end up in the corner. Ethan Lamerton brought the game to a close by completing his hat trick. This game concluded what has been largely a successful season for the U15's side. Six of this year's team were selected and represented the Devon Schools side — Theo Cousins, George Hillson, Harry Jeans, Ethan Lamerton, James Lewis and Ben Luke, and with a full summer's training programme ahead of them the club are hopeful that more will be selected in the U16 set up. Avonmouth Old Boys U12s 0 Tavistock U12s 54 A CROWD of Tavistock parents in full tour Star Wars outfits witnessed a riot of tries against a physical and determined Avonmouth side on the Tavistock U12s tour. Tavistock played some simple  rugby to outwit the stretched home defence. Henry Varndell-Dawes stalked the pitch scoring five tries, the first from a run from the Tavy 22 to the five metres out by Noah Berridge, and another two from lineout steals by Jaxom Cann and Harry Richardson respectively . Luke Edwards scored a superb try from the halfway line and Harry Richardson showed his strength and pace scoring two in the second half. Tackling across the team was solid, but Avonmouth edged the scrums. Sunday Abergavenny International Festival: Rhymney Gwent U12s 15 Tavistock U12s 5 TAVISTOCK took a while to adapt to the Welsh lineout laws and this allowed a strong Rhymney side to take the front foot for half of the game. Tavistock worked hard and Henry Varndell-Dawes led the fight back with a try but it was  to salvage a result. Tavistock U12s 15 Monmouth U12s 0 Tavistock regrouped and came firing on all cylinders. The forwards stepped up with Jaxom Cann barrelling the team forward on numerous occasions and eventually the pack mauled Harry Richardson over the whitewash. Henry Varndell –Dawes scored two more after some hard work, again by the pack to suck in the Welsh defence. Tavistock U12s 30 Rotterdam U12s 0 AGAINST a feisty Dutch side next Tavistock gave no quarter and several missed tackles allowed Tavistock to run in six tries from Sam Essex, Henry Varndell-Dawes (2), Harry Richardson, Noah Berridge and a deserved one from Luke Edwards. Reuben Coleman narrowly  missed out on his first Tavistock try after dancing and spinning his way through the Dutch defence. Tavistock U12s 30 Abergavenny U12s 0 THE festival hosts were a strong contender for honours, but Tavistock paid no heed to this. A hard  fought game ensued. Three minutes in and Henry and Luke took the ball between them from the Tavistock try line to the other end for Henry to touch down. This opened up the gates and Henry Varndell-Dawes ran in two more and Harry Edwards finished the game off with a powerful run through a tight defence. Tavistock U12s 5 Middleton U12s 10 BOTH teams needed a win to go through to the semi-finals and fought tooth and nail for possession. Luke Edwards and Henry Varndell-Dawes once again combined superbly down the wing to put  Henry over again for his ninth try of the day. Not to be outdone Irish team Middleton dug in and pressured Tavistock hard, which paid off with two insightful interception tries. Kiran Warner almost equalised in the last minute but it was disallowed and Tavistock were off home albeit with their heads held high after some superb  rugby over the weekend. TAVISTOCK RFC U7s took a squad of 19 to the Devon U7s rugby tournament in Ivybridge and were able to enter three teams playing 12 matches against clubs from across Devon. They achieved eight wins, one draw and just three losses and 102 tries scored in the series of games, played in sometimes wet conditions on the other side of the moor. There were some excellent games of rugby with the team showing how much they've learned this season. The team showed good supporting play with the players passing well and making some excellent tags, with many of the teams winning possession of the ball after taking six tags in a row. Tavistock U7s have really come together as a team and are fielding more players than any other team in the tournament, showed they are a force to be reckoned with in local youth rugby. Team 1: Tavistock U7s 8 (try scorers: Alastair 5, Dominic 2 and Finlay) Withycombe U7s 10; Tavistock U7s 9 Brixham 7 (Gabriel 4, Finlay 2, Brendan, Alastair and Edward); Tavistock U7s 10 ( Edward 3, Brendan, Finlay 2, Gabriel 2, Alastair and Dominic 2) Stonehouse Sharks 4; Tavistock U7s 7 (Alastair 2, Dominic, Finlay, Gabriel, Brendan and Edward) Topsham 5. Team 2: Tavistock U7s 5 (Jack 3, Tom and Joe) 5 Kingsbridge 4; Tavistock U7s 9 (Jack 4, Tom 2, William T-Y 2 and Lewis) Paignton 8; Tavistock U7s 8 ( Lewis 4, William T-Y 2, Jack and Tom) Kingsbridge seconds 6; Tavistock U7s 9 (William T-Y 4, Lewis 3, Jack and Tom) Okehampton 6. Team 3: Tavistock U7s 12 (Matthew 3, Lex 2, Nathan 2, Michael 2, William A, George P and George M) Devonport 12; Tavistock U7s 9 (Nathan 3, Matthew, William A, Lex, George P, Michael and George M) Okehampton 8; Tavistock U7s 8 (Nathan 5, George M, George P and Lex) Newton Abbot 11; Tavistock U7s 8 (George M 3, Lex 2, Michael 2 and Nathan) OPMs 12.