Student side shows its class
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For 20 minutes the match was a 50-50 affair but then the student side scored a converted try and the scoreboard sprang to life. By half-time, they had put an unanswered 28 points past the Stags.
Second half resilience from Ross, led by captain Ro Waugh, merely stalled the young Uni side who then played with the confidence they inherited from the first half.
Ross did get a try through Mike Gordon but at this stage the game was dead and buried.
Three further tries in five minutes ensured the hosts a comfortable victory by 54-5.
Nairn Under-16s 7,
Ross Sutherland Under-16s 15
ROSS Sutherland’s under-16 team recorded another hard-fought away victory at a sunny and warm Nairn.
The Nairn team started stronger and for the first 20 minutes held the upper hand, scoring the first try and using their powerful forwards to keep play deep in the Ross half of the field.
The Ross team slowly came back and a try by Findlay Foulis (Dornoch) reduced the deficit. Another Ross try, this time by Joe Eaglesham, gave the Ross lads a slender 10-7 half-time lead.
The second half was again very closely contested but an alert Cameron Munro caught the Nairn team off guard for a classic scrum half try to give some breathing space and the Ross team then finished the stronger for a second consecutive away win.
Gordon Ross was man of the match for the Ross Sutherland team.
