Second Place in First Season

Perthshire Women 15 – 37 Kirkcaldy

First league campaign over, with a second place finish.

A busy, blustery day on the Inch saw the Women take to the new riverside pitch for their final league game of the season. Injuries and work commitments meant that the side was a little short of experience in certain areas.

Perthshire played with the wind in the first half but Kirkcaldy started the better with a well worked try. They doubled their score with a good break, despite a try saving tackle from Chloe Bennett supporting players were on hand to take the offload and touch down.

Paige Klinkman, who had a fantastic game, put in her own goal line tackle which prevented a third try. Perthshire started to use the wind to their advantage and after a good long kick by Anna Davies and a great chase, there was a period of sustained pressure which resulted in a try for Chloe Bennett.

Despite some more excellent tackles by Paige and Fiona Gordon, Kirkcaldy scored a third try before half time, 5-15.

The teams exchanged scores just after the interval, with Paige making a great break to score her first try for the club. Perthshire’s third try was a thing of beauty with Lydia McGinley touching down after some accurate and dynamic handling. This brought the score to 15-20.

Injuries and enforced changes began to take their toll and Kirkcaldy scored 3 tries in the last quarter to take a well deserved win 15-37. Nevertheless, this game ends what has been a very encouraging league campaign with 6 wins, 3 losses and 1 draw; resulting in a second placed finish.

The Women now move on the National Plate competition, with an away trip to Turriff to open the competition on Sunday 4th February, and we wish Kirkcaldy well for the rest of their season.

Photos taken by Peter Wilkinson.