Overseas 10
Kavallieri 34

A greatly improved Overseas gave Kavallieri a real fright as they started off by playing to their potential for the first time this season, heaving the Kavallieri scrum backwards and combining forwards and backs in incisive attacks.

Their passing was accurate and the backs, especially Duffy, threatened the Kavallieri line until the almost inevitable breakthrough and score. Soon after Duffy intercepted a bad pass and raced away half the field to score under the posts.

Stuart missed both conversions and an earlier penalty.

The momentum was lost when Allen was yellow-carded for persistent infringement and Kavallieri came back into the match when Grima scored after a typical team line-out maul and drive.

The score of 10-5 to Overseas was a fair reflection at half-time.

However, in the second half the renowned Kavallieri spirit started to tell. Their task was made easier when Overseas lost Ross and Schembri-Warren through injury. The Kavallieri forwards began to win more and more possession.

Attard kicked in a penalty and then Grima scored a try after persistent pressure. Attard converted to take the lead. Vella then drove over after another Kavallieri mauling drive.

Straight from the kick-off, Cutajar caught the ball for Kavallieri and made a spectacular sprint down the touch line all the way from his own 22 to score a superb individual try. Attard converted this one.

The match was rounded off by another excellent handling movement by Kavallieri. The move was finished off by Micallef, although a trifle lucky in that some of the passes looked forward.

It was converted by Attard, who this week leaves to college in Ireland.

Alligators 22
Hibs Sharks 5

Another closely-fought match despite the scoreline.

After sensible kicking with the strong wind to gain valuable territory, the Alligators pack exerted a lot of pressure on the Sharks line until good ball was spun out to the lurking Sullivan who made one of his elusive runs to score the first try.

Then, fly-half Garuansa made a powerful break, the ball finished at Womack who ran strongly away from the cover to score a try which was converted by Parnis-England.

This was answered by the determined Sharks with a classic try when the ball was won in a ruck and spun out along the line with good passing to wing Attard to score in the corner.

The Sharks were tackling well and Alligators struggled.

Strangely, in the second half, Sharks did not realise they had a strong wind behind them and made the constant error of playing directly to Alligators' heavy slow pack. Had they kicked with the wind and made the Alligators run more they could easily have turned the game.

However, the tactics allowed Alligators to exert more pressure and Sullivan and Parnis-England added two more tries.

Women's rugby

The women's squad are currently training for the forthcoming match against a German side in February.

Backs and forwards split for specialist training last week. Then a short match was played with the coaches, Damien Neill and Carm Longo, taking part to ensure accurate positional play. There are 28 players in the squad.