Raiders’ take women’s AAA gold

Ryan Quigley

Journal Pioneer

The Charlottetown Rural Raiders defeated the Bluefield Bobcats 12-5 to take the Prince Edward Island School Athletic Association’s Women’s AAA Rugby provincial championship at Bluefield Monday night.

The Raiders were led by Maggie Grimmer and Lauren Matheson who each scored a try in the win, while Katherine Drake had the conversion.

The Bobcats lone try came from Alyson Condon in the losing effort.

The Raiders’ coach, Shannon Atkins said it felt good to win the game after the hard work put in by her team this year.

“It feels great. The girls have worked all year and this is a very talented team, one of the best I’ve had in the last 18 years.”

She said the whole game her team had to fight hard for the victory and stamina was a key to the victory.

“A lot of talent on the team, great skills and hard work. Bluefield is a tough, tough team,” she said. “It was fighting to the teeth the whole time.”

She said the game started out tough and admitted her team wasn’t ready for them.

“The second half we came out and we were ready. We decided to keep the ball moving as fast as we could and that was to our advantage. Once we got it outside we scored a couple tries and lucked out.”

Bronze Medal Game

The Colonel Gray Colonels shut out the Three Oaks Senior High school Axewomen in the Bronze medal game 22-0 Monday afternoon at Bluefield high school.

Colonel Gray was led by two tries from Taylor McKenzie and Hannah Dawson with Kendra Holroyd scoring the team’s lone conversion.

Three Oaks was held off the scoreboard.