Category: Under 13s

A squad of 18 players was selected to travel for this age group’s first league fixture in the HML League at Teddington RFC in West London this morning. Well done to the parents and coaches for getting through the traffic and dealing with an all too familiar parking shortage! After a good warm up the

Sunday morning sees the start of the new season for Mini & Youth. All age groups are training at Dillingham Park – please see the attached map for your age group location and training start time!   Parking at the club is limited, especially since the erection of our new marquee this week. Please be

Result: Olney 25 – Ampthill Tigers 10 Ampthill Tigers headed to Olney for what would, as always be a tough encounter. Although great early defence by the Tigers kept Olney at bay and saw one attempt over the line held up, a momentary lack of concentration saw Olney break the line to score. The forwards

Result: Ampthill RUFC Lions 25 v Letchworth RUFC U13’s A’s 5 Ampthill Lions welcomed Letchworth RUFC on a sunny and warm autumn day.   This was going to be a touch encounter with Letchworth sitting in the league above Ampthill in the HML League. Ampthill Lions took the lead early on in the game with sustained

Overall another good season for the under 13s We’ve seen our numbers grow to around 32 – much of this growth is off the back of the after school group at alameda which is in its 3rd year  We started the year winning the Peterborough tournament, conceding only 3 tries in the process and ended

In preparation for their first season as ‘youth’ players, the 2016/17 season started early for the Under 13’s with fitness coach Abe Kerr running specialised preseason fitness training at Wrest Park, these were well attend by the squad all of whom seem to understand the importance of the sessions, the benefit would hopefully pay off

Ampthill made the trip up the A6 to play a friendly fixture against Rushden & Higham. The opening exchanges of the game were very cagey with lots of handling errors meaning the scrum count was rising continually. Rushden opened the scoring with a well worked break away try, this was quickly cancelled out by a

As always an eagerly anticipated start to the season saw the boys fully embrace the transition from mini to youth rugby with full size pitches, 15 players and entry into the Herts and Middlesex League (HML) as well as both the Bedfordshire and East Midlands Cups that they were more used to from the seasons

Ampthill U13’s (31) v (25) Northampton Old Scouts A match that kept everybody entertained until the last minute eventually saw Ampthill U13’s claim the East Midlands cup after beating Northampton Old Scouts in a well contested final played at Peterborough RFC. The path to the final hadn’t been easy with Ampthill seeing off many of

U13 HML LEAGUE London Scottish 19 Ampthill 17 A bright morning and an early start coach trip to London for our first away league game. The trip down was uneventful and we arrived early only to find out that some numpty (I won’t mention any names but it starts with an A) had forgotten to bring the shirts!

“that was a great game, I would have paid money to see that!”

Herts Middlesex Junior Leagues

U13 HERTS & MIDDLESEX LEAGUE  Amps 41 Datchworth 7 A good win but not quite the usual flowing rugby we have been seeing. That said, the win puts us top of the league ! Josh opened the scoring with an unconverted try after 7 minutes from a tap & go carried well by Billy and then

Rob said it was his proudest moment as a coach to win in such a fashion. High praise indeed.

Yes, the boys actually pulled off a 912 successfully. Amazeballs!

Our first league game and what a start  : Ampthill 34 – 5 Chess Valley A much better warm up got the boys properly prepared for the challenge as the mist rolled in and the wendyballers at Queensmen disappeared from view (shame we could still hear them). Playing up hill in the first half which

The game kicked off, us playing up the hill...

What a great start to the season