International Schools Tournament

( Sunday 2nd September 2007 )

THE DRAW

POOL A		POOL B
Fettes School, Edinburgh		Woodhouse Grove School, Leeds
Barnard Castle School, Durham		Durham School
Connacht Development XV		Filton College, Bristol
		Northumberland Schools
POOL C		POOL D
Edinburgh Academy		Merchiston School, Edinburgh
RGS, Newcastle		Yarm School
Stowe Schools, Bucks		QEGS Wakefield
Tynedale Schools

FORMAT

Schools play each other in their pools

Each match 7.5 minutes each way.

The top two teams in each pool qualify for the Main knockout competition

The bottom two teams in each pool enter the Plate knockout competition.

 

RESULTS

MAIN COMPRTITION

Quarter Finals

Barnard Castle	7	Woodhouse Grove	0
Connacht	0	Filton College	15
RGS Newcastle	0	QEGS Wakefield	0
QEGS Wakefield progressed on toss of coin
Tynedale Schools	7	Merchiston Castle	24

Semi-Finals

Barnard Castle	0	Merchsiton Castle	12
Filton College	12	QEGS Wakefield

Final

Merchiston Castle

0

Filton College

0

It was decided that Merchsiton & Filton should be joint winners.

PLATE COMPETITION

Quarter Finals

RGS B	0	Durham School	5
Yarm School	0	Stowe School	5

Northumberland Schools and Edinburgh Academy received byes to the semi finals.

Semi Finals

Northumberland Schools	7	Stowe School	0
Edinburgh Academy	5	Durham School 0	5

Final

Northumberland Schools

7

Edinburgh Academy

0

TROPHIES

Main Winners: Tynedale District Council Trophy

Main Runners-Up: The Hexham Courant Trophy

Plate Winners: The Newcastle Building Society Trophy

Plate Runners-Up: The Just Sport Shield

 

Northumbria University the tournament main sponsors selected An Edinburgh Academy student -Ton Brown as the Player of the Tournament and he received a signed Newcastle Falcons shirt from the Falcons Director of Rugby John Fletcher.

 

The President of the Northumberland Rugby Union John Saunders - an ex-President of the host Club joined John Fletcher in presenting the tournament Trophies.

 

Contact:-

Alex C Kerr

Kerr Associates

New Bingfield House

New Bingfield

Hallington

Northumberland

NE19 2LE

Tel: 01434 672816

E-Mail: akerr@northumberland.gov.uk