Fort Collins traveled to Chaparral to play Highlands Ranch on Saturday, which turned out to be a friendly match since Highlands Ranch was short of players and had players from Chaparral and Douglas County fill in to complete a side.
Fort Collins Youth Rugby Girls started off slow in the match but after about ten minutes Sadie Anderson sliced through the defense to score the first try and put FCYR up 7-0. This was followed by Caitlin Chvatal finding and overload and breaking around the end to push the score 12-0. Sadie then came back with a kick over the defense and received a good bounce to move the score to 19-0 with the conversion. Sadie had another try late in the first half to keep pushing the score to 24-0. Finally right at the end of the first half Maddie Robinson looped all the way around the wing to overload the defense and close out halftime with Fort Collins up 29-0.
Being a friendly match Fort Collins made numerous subs to get everyone playing time. Second half saw Highlands Ranch control the ball better and at the ten minute mark score a try to make it 29-5. Fort Collins then stiffened and Morgan Ackley made some great cuts to score and with the conversion by Carina Chvatal the score was 36-5. Highlands Ranch did keep up the pressure and with two late trys the final was 36-15. Match gave everyone some good playing and learning time and overall other than a few mistakes was a strong match.
