The IRFU Volkswagen Mixed Tag at Belfast Harlequins RFC certainly moved up a notch on Thursday night as the teams played in their competition groups.

Premiership

Results

Friesian Taggers	19 – 06	Tag My Pitch Up
Sheep Taggers	14 – 11	HashTags

The Sheep Taggers caused a major upset with their win against top seeds HashTags, who will still have a major say in the league thanks to picking up a losing bonus.

Tag My Pitch Up were competitive for large parts of their game against Friesian Taggers but the reigning champions pulled clear with some clinical scores either side of half time.

Standings

Team	P	W	D	PD	BP	PTS
Friesian Taggers	1	1	0	13	0	4
Sheep Taggers	1	1	0	3	0	4
HashTags	1	0	0	-3	1	1
Tag My Pitch Up	1	0	0	-13	0	0

Championship

Results

Galacticos	11 – 11	Space Cadets
Carlingford Knights	16 – 16	Taggers Bay

Still all to play for in the championship with the four teams drawing in the first round in entertaining and feisty games.

I’m already looking forward to next week’s scraps in this one.

Standings

Team	P	W	D	PD	BP	PTS
Carlingford Knights	1	0	1	0	0	2
Galacticos	1	0	1	0	0	2
Space Cadets	1	0	1	0	0	2
Taggers Bay	1	0	1	0	0	2

Conference

Results

Derryvolgie Halss	08 – 13	Flatliners
Runaways	16 – 21	Tag Heuers

Another two entertaining game in the Conference as new teams Derryvolgie Halss and Runaways both stood up in some style.

The Runaways get our vote for Team of the Week for a match in which the more than doubled their total points scored to date and more than tripled their conversion rate after posting a 50% conversion rate on the night thanks to a hat trick from Sophie Matthews and a try from Brianna Gillen.

Standings

Team	P	W	D	PD	BP	PTS
Flatliners	1	1	0	5	0	4
Tag Heures	1	1	0	5	0	4
Derryvolgie Halss	1	0	0	-5	1	1
Runaways	1	0	0	-5	1	1

Leading Scorers

Just a quick look at the scorers this week as we’re starting to check the posted scorers against the team scores on a round by round basis. There may be some adjustments in the next week.

The women players continue to dominate the top of the table. Despite not playing this week, Joanne Orr (Friesian Taggers) hangs on to top spot though Rosie Murchan (Carlingford Knights) has drawn level on 12 tries, as has the highest place male scorer Mark Coughlin (Derryvolgie Halss).

The leading try scorers for the week were Sheep Taggers duo Connor Phillips and Andrew Simpson who both scored four tries but the leading points scorers were Rosie Murchan and Sophie Matthews (Runaways) who both claimed nine points from three tries each.

PLAYER	TEAM	WK1	WK2	WK3	WK4	TOT
Joanne Orr	Friesian Taggers	4	4	4		12
Rosie Murchan	Carlingford	2	4	3	3	12
Mark Coughlin	Derryvolgie	4	5	2	1	12
Suzie Rodgers	HashTags	2	3	6		11
Kerry McIlwaine	Sheep Taggers	1	6	3		10
Zahra Bonnar	Friesian Taggers	3		5	2	10
Connor Phillips	Sheep Taggers	2		4	4	10
Hannah Lewis	Hashtags	3	3	1	2	9
Hazel Jordan	Tag My Pitch Up	3	2	3	1	9
Benny Glendinning	Tag Heuers	2	3	2	2	9
Alexandra McIlwaine	Taggers Bay	2	2	4		8
Imelda Friel	Space Cadets	2	1	3	2	8
Stephen Beasant	Galacticos	1	4	1	2	8
Katherine Boyd	Friesian Taggers	1	3	3		7
Chris Gibson	Sheep Taggers		3	4		7
Conor Gilloway	Flatliners	4	1	2		7
Jona Siri	Taggers Bay		5	2		7
Nathan Burns	Taggers Bay		3	2	2	7
Paddy Quinn	Carlingford			6	1	7

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