Saratoga Girls A Team Whallops Essex's Second Team, 46-0

The Saratoga Mustangs Girls A Team took on Essex's second team after they watched the Super A's emotional victory and charged the field on a mission themselves. Espousing the need to play smarter more aware rugby, the ladies fought Essex for a 30 minute truncated game. When the smoke cleared, the ladies wracked up eight tries and three conversions, cruising to a 46-0 rout and improving their record to 5-0. Saratoga's A Team, which often plays shorter games because of available field space, reffing, and time, has now outscored their opponents 172-10 in five games, resulting in an average score of over 34 points per game and have not let up a point since April 18th.
Saratoga ripped off a fast start to the game and immediately dominated the line and pack of Essex and managed to overrun the defense repeatedly. At the end of the 30 minute game, Saratoga had wracked up another lopsided victory, defeating Essex's second team 46-0. Passing was so well executed that there was not a single scrum-down for the entire game. This meant not a single dropped pass for thirty minutes of play. It was the perfect tune up game for the A side girls, who will take on Springfield's top squad and the girls from Albany-Schenectady-Rennselaer this coming weekend's Springfield Invitational.
The game was an all-comers event for scoring. Saratoga's usual suspects made their presence known. As per usual for the Girls A Team, the freshmen loose forward combo of flanker Maranda Rotundo (Burnt Hills) and eight man Melayna Weaver (Burnt Hills) each chipped in a try, adding to their season totals and continuing their scoring streak in consecutive games for the A Team. Junior scrum-half Olivia Guay (Burnt Hills) and senior inside center Amanda Barletta (Burnt Hills) also struck pay dirt, scrambling for a score off of a ruck and bursting through a whole in Essex's defense, respectively. Senior German Exchange student Jenny von Rosen (Burnt Hills) also added her hard smashing running to the fray which and compiled yet another score in her rookie season. The real show of the day was the footwork of Khirstian Carbonello (Burnt Hills), who was getting her first shot at fly-half after having started all of her games at fullback. In one half, or fifteen minutes of play, Carbonello managed to wrack up three tries and four converted kicks, totalling 23 points.
The Mustangs Girls A's now travel to Springfield, before returning home for its final game of the season, at home vs. ASR on May 31st.

The Saratoga Mustangs A's Are Now 5-0.