Irish Canadian Rugby Club 55 - Fergus Highland 12
16 / 08 / 03
League

A nine try run over Fergus Highland ended a two game skid for the Irish, second in the Marshall.

Showing a return to early season form, Irish scored 29 points against the first half win and ran to a 55-12 rout of Highland on Saturday at Fletchers.

A locker room visit by former fly half Ed Gardner (London Scottish) and a return to the line up of Jason Verstraten, Ish Mozes, Brad Boss and Alex Maggiacomo seemed to revive the Irish flagging fortunes as they led 29-0 into the wind and added four second half tries to run their season record to 7-2.  Fergus, 23-22 losers to Oakville a week ago, sunk to 2-7.

Mozes with three, Leonard Jean Pierre, Dan Hinton, Peter Smith, Konrad Nikkel, Henry Miers and Verstraten dotted down for the greens, with Brad Boss adding two converts and Konrad Nikkel three.

Verstratens' was the most spectacular of the day, as the fullback (whose most recent action was against New Zealand Maori) took a perfect flat pass from Peter Smith and raced 90 meters to score against a stunned Highland defence.

"A marked improvement, and it was great to have people back," said relieved coach Mark Winokur.

"We still have work to do around our hot zone play, but generally speaking a solid effort which hopefully will restore confidence down the stretch."

The development team ran roughshod over an undermanned Highland side by 61-0 to also improve to 7-2; the thirds were winners by default as Fergus travelled with two sides only.

All three teams travel to Brampton next week to face the always scrappy Beavers.