Rugby Union

The Terriers entered their 3rd fixture against Crimson Tide expecting a hard game against a side billed as 'one of the best in Canada'. Unfortunately the game game did not live up to expectations. as in the previous games, the Terriers found themselves 14-0 up after only a few minutes. From the kick-off Crimson tide returned the ball straight into touch, James Craig caught a good line out and from a short pass Dan Hart strode through to score under the posts, Jon West converting. Straight from the following kick off, a scrum resulted in the ball finding its way to Harry Duthie who ghosted through the defence from full-back, again West added the extra 2 points.
The visiting forwards were now dominating with several driving mauls making good yardage. From a line out 10m from the hosts line, Dan Chamberlain caught clean ball and Will Shepherd stormed through the midfield only to be held just short. Dan Hart finished things off from a yard out. Jon West made no mistake with the conversion.

Driving mauls were now becoming a much-used weapon, one sent Crimson Tide back 40m from the Terriers 22 and resulted in Mark Perkins scoring his 3rd try of the tour. The onslaught continued after a failed conversion and after 17 mins the score moved to 31-0 as Matt Terrett made a 40m break before unselfishly off-loading to Dan Hart for his hat-trick. Five minutes later, a poor 22 drop-out by the home side was taken by Dan Chamberlain, who stormed through and then passed to AJ Connor for the openside to score in the corner. Jon West resumed his successful kicking after two misses.
On the stroke of half-time, John Aikman scored a short-range try to the delight of his watching family, who had made the trip for the last 2 games of the tour. Jon West took the interval score to 45-0 in a half totally dominated by the touring side.

After making a number of changes at the break, the new Terriers started the second half with same purpose - total domination. The forwards continued to dominate with several thundering runs before Tom Hebditch hit a short pass from Greg Moore on a great angle. This took him through the first line of defence before stepping the full-back to score under the sticks from 35m out. Moore added the extras. The Tide began to show a little more resilience in defence and held for longer than any other period in the match before Matt Terrett forced his way over in the left corner, Moore knocked over an excellent conversion to take the score to 59-0 Within 2 minutes, the Terriers made it 66-0, Moore making a beautiful break, offloading to Ben Inness who in turn gave the scoring pass to hooker Tom Young. Greg Johnson then scored an excellent individual try using pace and strength to race in from 30m out The referee blew up early (to save the hosts from a bigger pasting??) and did not even allow the final conversion so the score remained at 71-0. Although this match was unsatisfactory in many ways, as all had expected it to be the toughest fixture of the tour well before the Terriers travelled, at least the tourists can go into the final game against Capilano with the record - Played 3, Won 3, 218 for, 0 against