{"id":585931,"date":"2023-09-05T13:32:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefrontrowunion.com\/?p=585931"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:32:52","slug":"junior-friendly-cooke-ii-26-academy-ii-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.thefrontrowunion.com\/frusport\/?p=585931","title":{"rendered":"Junior Friendly: Cooke II 26 Academy II 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Our trip to Shaw&#8217;s Bridge on Saturday gave us the chance to catch up with another of our featured clubs as Academy 2nd XV made the trip to play Cooke 2nd XV in a junior friendly match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">It was another high scoring game with 9 tries though this one evenly contested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefrontrowunion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902-Cooke-v-Academy-Luke-Jervis-061-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585932\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tom Doonan crosses for Cooke in the first half. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Cooke took an early lead through hooker <strong>Tom Donnan<\/strong>, converted by <strong>Ollie McKibben<\/strong>, before Academy pulled it back to 7 &#8211; 7 with a converted try by<strong> Andrew Greer<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The teams continued to swap tries as Donnan crossed for his second for Cooke and prop <strong>Matthew Alexander<\/strong> for Academy&#8217;s second try, but it was Cooke who took a lead into the break with <strong>Gavin Morrison<\/strong> crossing just before half time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefrontrowunion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230902-Cooke-v-Academy-Luke-Jervis-080-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585933\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elliott Donaldson goes over for Academy in the second half<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Cooke score first in the second half with <strong>Matthew Gowen<\/strong> scoring shortly after resumption but a storming second half from Academy saw<strong> Henry George<\/strong>, <strong>Elliott Donaldson<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Brown <\/strong>all crossed to give Academy a 26 &#8211; 31 win at the final whistle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\">Match Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>[foogallery id=&#8221;585695&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our trip to Shaw&#8217;s Bridge on Saturday gave us the chance to catch up with another of our featured clubs as Academy 2nd XV made the trip to play Cooke 2nd XV in a junior friendly match. 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