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Harlequins Junior Academy 18 v 42 St Helens Junior Academy
By Graham Henthorne, Team Manager
This was as comfortable a victory as the scoreline suggests on a hot and humid afternoon in the Capital.
After a sluggish start which saw them fall behind to a soft barge over try the Junior Academy were never really stretched by the enthusiastic, if limited, home side. Once Josh Jones had opened the Saints account, finishing off a move he started in his own 30 metre area, at quarter time they never looked back.
The recovery started as Jack Bradbury was moved to Stand Off and it was his break down the middle, supported by Tommy Johnson, which gave the Man of the Match Danny Jones a walk in for the first of his brace.
Tommy Makinson made a trademark aggressive run for the line in stretching the lead minutes later and the Saints were cruising.
Even after a lapse in concentration had let Quins in for another barge over try at the sticks to bring them within two, nobody was unduly worried.
The second half became the procession that the first had threatened to be.
From the first set Danny Jones scored his second slicing through some woeful tackling to score in the corner and when Nathan Ashe scored, leaping higher than the defence to take Bradbury’s cross kick, it was a case of how many.
Ste Ward burst through the middle going 40 metres to the full back doing everything right but forgot to pass backwards to one of the four supporting players and the try went begging.
Quins kept things alive with a 75 metre try straight from a tap restart as the conditions started to take their toll on concentration levels.
But normal service was resumed as the Saints ran in three more tries in five minutes around the hour mark. Danny Wakefield finished off Danny Jones’ 40 metre break, Scott Hale stretched his large frame out to score down the left and Makinson started and finished the 60 metre move for his second interpassing with Dave Pike down the wing. He converted two of the three for a personal tally of 12 points.
After a long trip down and playing in sultry conditions it would have been easy to succumb to the enthusiastic Quins but this was a professional display from a group of lads that are beginning to blend together. Ben Karalius moves the forwards around well, Jack Bradbury was a revelation at stand off and in Ant Walker, Karl Forster, Josh Greaves and Rob Murphy there is an engine room to give the team the go forward.
But the special mention this week must go to the player who could have played in the earlier Foundation Academy game but who outshone his older colleagues. Take a bow Danny Jones.
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Harlequins Junior Academy:
Tries: Olsi Krasniqi, Max Edwards, Ben Hodgson.
Goals: Chris Kinsey 3.
Saints Junior Academy:
Tries: Nathan Ashe, Tom Makinson 2, Josh Jones, Danny Wakefield, Scott Hale, Danny Jones 2.
Goals: Tommy Johnson 3, Tom Makinson 2.
Half Time: 14-12
Full Time: 42-18
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