National Youth Bowl Under 18 Final
Murrayfield, Sunday 29 November 2015
Dundee Eagles U18s 12, Orkney/Caithness U18s 21

Last Saturday saw fifteen U18 Orkney players meet at the Northlink Terminal in Stromness at 8am to commence their epic journey to play Dundee Eagles at Murrayfield. 
They survived the choppy crossing down the west side of Hoy and made it in one piece to Scrabster.  They were met in Thurso by Tracey Kay and five of the Caithness players. 
As is the nature of playing rugby in the expanse of the North of Scotland, the player numbers were topped up to the full compliment of 22 by picking up the last two Caithness players in Latheron. 
The Caithness Development Officer was collected in Inverness for the onward journey to Edinburgh.

​Orkney RFC's very own Ryan Arcus was gleaming with joy last Tuesday evening (17th Nov) at the Orkney Youth Awards ceremony at the King Street Halls.  Ryan received his SALTIRE award and SUMMIT award for his time and effort that he has put into his coaching at Orkney RFC since November 2012.

Unfortunately, tomorrow's National league 3 match v Irvine RFC has been called off due to the weather warning & travel concerns.
​It will be re-arranged for a later date.

The Orkney Under 14 team traveled down to Aberdeen on Friday night for a game against Mackie RFC in the town of Stonehaven. The Mackie U14 team has a 2 year unbeaten record and was to be one of the toughest opponents on Orkney’s 2015/16 calendar.

The team arrived at Mackie’s ground to be met with heavy rain which continued throughout the match. During the first 10 minutes of play Mackie started strongly and it took Orkney a while to find their feet with good rucking and some committed tackling from Charlie Pasotti and Kieran Park holding Mackie at the Orkney 5m line.