IN the glorious sunshine, the Launceston Little Blacks travelled to Truro, in force, and ready for the County Cup battle to commence! The draw had been made, for the order of the day, and first up were Launceston v St Ives and Camborne Barbarians. The first half saw some determined fast rugby as the Little Blacks pushed forward and remained in the opposing half for the first few minutes. A good pressure led to the first try being scored by Matt Davey. Score at the half time whistle – 5-0 to Launceston.

Not long into the second half and Edward Tait ran through to score the Little Blacks another try. Great ripping of the ball and powerful tackling was seen, especially from Edward Tait. Tom Jewell did an impressive pass out to the wing, in the middle of being tackled himself. In a nail biting moment so close to the try line, both Corey Sillifant and Edward Tait stopped a try from being scored, with extremely strong tackling. The front row, Tom Jewell, Ben Mckenzie and Kieran Sargent worked very hard in pushing forward and gaining ground with some extreme ripping of the ball. Final score, 10-0 to the Little Blacks and the first game was bagged!

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