TATA Steel TAG Rugby Festival [29th Jan, 2014]

As part of the Aberavon RFC and TATA Steel sports program TAG Rugby festivals were held in order for the children taking part to showcase their skills.

The Y4 children who took part received 4 on hour sessions of TAG Rugby and one visit from Warburtons as part of promoting Healthy Living and raising Physical Activity.

On Wednesday 29th January, 8 schools took part in the TAG rugby festival, they were:

Tywyn
Sandfields
Traethmelyn
Awel Y Mor
Eastern
Coed Hirwaun
Central
Cwmafan

With over 200 children taking part it was an excellent event with children contentiously playing sport for over 2 hours. Part of the element of the program is to offer development of rugby through TAG to promote awareness of rugby it hope that children will join local clubs. Also, the program offers development for the Wizards League and helps teachers identify talent for the future.

It was great to see the smiles on the children's faces as they enjoyed getting out of schools and getting some exercise. It is easy to play sport within school in the comfort of knowing who you are playing against. At the festival, the children are able to express skills against other schools and this encourages team work and determination.

The festival could not have been run without TATA Steel's influence and willingness to help out within the community via supporting this project. Also, thanks to Liam Evans and Mike Dyer of the WRU who also helped organise and facilitate referees for the day.

Many people collaborating to make Port Talbot a stronger place for the future. More pictures can be found here 

Wizards League - Round 8

Not many games featured in this round of the Wizards League. St Therese continued their unbeaten run in netball against Awel Y Mor winning 11-2. Awel Y Mor’s rugby team showing huge improvements gaining a 0-30 win over St Therese. Also, like St Therese, Tywyn continued their unbeaten run in netball winning 10-0 over Sandfields with Tywyn rugby team involved in a tough game against Sandfields. Tywyn won the game 15-5. Lastly, Traethmelyn travelled to Cymmer where they won both netball and rugby games 1-8 and 5-35 respectively. There are a lot of games to be played and these games are most likely to be held on January 30th and February 13th. Some exciting games are yet to come. Also, the annual Baglan Bay Cup competition is one for the diaries [Thursday 1st May].

Wizards League - Round 7

This week saw some convincing wins in the rugby, some tight games in netball and one or two great performances. Traethmelyn downed Eastern 40-10 in rugby and also winning 4-0 in netball. Eastern also played Tywyn in a catch up game with Tywyn winning both rugby and netball 30-0 and 10-0 respectively.

Sandfields beat Awel Y Mor in rugby 30-0 but a good tight game in netball saw Sandfields win 15-10. Cymmer Federations are still searching for a win as they lost to Blaenbaglan 10-30  in rugby and 0-10 in netball.

Some tight games in a three way game day between St Joes, St Therese and Groes took place. In rugby St Joes beat Groes 20-10 and drew 10-10 with St Therese. Whilst Groes beat St Therese 10-5 in a great match. Groes are showing huge improvements. In netball St Therese remain unbeaten winning 4-11 against St Joes and 11-1 against Groes. St Joes and Groes drew 1-1 in the netball game. Some great games are going ahead in the Wizards League.

Wizards League - Round 6

The Wizards League is very competitive this season with some good results all round.

Traethmelyn secured two wins over Awel Y Mor winning 40-10 in rugby and 4-2 in netball. Cymmer show that they are improving each week by getting a good draw against Eastern in rugby, yet Cymmer are still waiting for a win in netball with Eastern winning 0-4.

St Therese continue their fine form in netball beating Sandfields 11-1 but losing in rugby 0-30. Like Cymmer, Groes are showing great improvement in rugby earning a good 30-30 draw against Blaenbaglan.

No joy for the Groes netball team though as they lost 1-11 to Blaenbaglan. Tywyn also continue their unbeaten run in netball winning 10-0 over Cwmafan. A reverse story in the rugby as Cwmafan ended Tywyn’s unbeaten run in rugby winning 0-20. A very good result for Cwmafan as Tywyn until this point had not conceded a try.

Baglan traveled to St Joes to play two games. St Joes won 35-15 in rugby and Baglan won 3-7 in netball. Baglan are another team showing great improvements in rugby. Coed Hirwaun traveled to St Joes to play Baglan and Coed Hirwaun won 25-5 in rugby and drew 3-3 in netball. The wizards league sure is getting better and better each round.

Teams are improving, children and being more competitive and teachers are more committed and involved, its great to see and many people are talking about sport in Port Talbot. Coed Hirwaun and Cwmafan remain unbeaten in rugby and is set to be a great game. In netball, St Therese and Tywyn are also unbeaten which is also looking to be a great encounter. With so many strong teams in the league … upsets can be caused. School Sport!!!