What was the score in the army v navy rugby match today?

Question

What was the score in the army v navy rugby match today?

Answer 1

Army 39 Navy 25

The Army retained The Babcock Trophy for the sixth year running at Twickenham this afternoon in one of the best games seen at RFU Headquarters between the sides during that time.

The teams were locked 25-25 following Navy skipper Dave Pascoe’s third penalty three minutes into the second half but it proved to be their final points of the match as tiredness and the Army’s superiority in the tight took it’s toll.

Four minutes later Fijian wing Ben Seru followed three of his fellow countryman by touching down the Army’s fourth try to put them 32-25 ahead and there was no further score until injury time when prop Steve Trethewey was driven over and fly half Rob Sweeney kicked his fourth conversion

Army coach Andy Price summed up: “It was a real cliff-hanger and a great experience for everyone. We bumbled a few chances and are disappointed with that but overall we are very pleased.

“You must remember at the end of the day we are all soldiers or sailors first and I was very pleased with that level of performance.”

The Army blasted out of the blocks in front of the 41,730 strong crowd scoring after just 73 seconds following Seru’s storming break and some fine work from centre Peceli Nacamavuto scything through the Navy midfield and brushing aside the tackles to touchdown.

Sweeney converted but within minutes the Navy had also opened their account when fly half Jamie Caruana was late tackled and Pascoe kicked the first of his penalties.

And they then went in front for the first time on 14 minutes when left wing Andrew Vance latched on to Caruana’s superbly weighted cross kick.

But, it was short lived as the Army hit back and a blistering run from left wing Malakai Magnus saw him race in under the posts for Sweeney to convert.

Undaunted, despite struggling in the tight, the Navy again went in front with a mesmeric piece of running from within in his own half from wing Josh Drauniniu from which Pascoe sent full back Mal Roberts sprinting over before adding the extras.

But a Sweeney penalty had the Army back in front, 17-15, only for Pascoe to kick his second, minutes later, at the other end to once again give the Navy the ascendancy, 18-17.

Then came a real blow for the Navy as the Army pounded their line and from a well constructed move flanker Isoa Damudamu appeared on the wing and although tackled had enough momentum to carry him the extra yard and then stretch out and touchdown.

The video evidence, however, showed he had put a foot into touch at the tackle.

The try went unconverted and the Army led 25-18 at half time.

Although the Navy hit back minutes after the restart when Drauniniu intercepted lock Darrell Ball’s pass out in his own 22 and sprinted the length of the pitch for the touchdown they were never quite able to rise to the efforts of the first half.

A charged down kick in their own 22 metre area presented a try just four minutes later for Seru and the Army were able to keep a clean slate for the remainder of the match before capping it all with Trethewey’s five pointer.

Losing skipper Dave Pascoe commented: “We just didn’t have the platform to play off today and we are very disappointed.”

The Babcock Trophy Man of the Match was awarded to Army centre Peceli Nacamavuto for his storming work in midfield.

ARMY: Roberts; Seru, Nacamavuto, A Satala, Magnus; Sweeney, Gill; Trethewey, Kemble, Budgen; Hughes, Ball; Damudamu, Lee, Jope. Reps – Scothern, Lewis, Sugden, Delaitamana, Slade-Jones, Wessels, Evans.

NAVY: Llloyd; Drauniniu, Saunders, Barden, Vance; Caruana, Pascoe(c); Mason, Priddey, Parkes; Owens, Cormack; Doney, Pilkington, Evans. Reps – Burns, Dean, Parker, Jerrold, John, Buinimasi, M Satala.