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Kendal RUFC Men and Women players selected to represent Cumbria!
Five Kendal RUFC women and eleven Kendal RUFC men have been selected to represent Cumbria in this season's County Championships!
Cumbria women will face Staffordshire on Saturday, 7 May at Penrith, K.O. 2pm in Pool 1 of Group 3 of the Gill Burns County Championship. They travel to Derby on Saturday, May 14 to tackle Notts., Lincs. and Derby and then on Saturday, May 21 are back in Cumbria to host Oxfordshire at the Upper Eden club.
This year’s women's squad is 40-strong: 15 from Carlisle, 10 from Penrith, 7 from Workington, 5 from Kendal and 1 from Upper Eden. 2 of the squad members are based out of the county.
The Kendal women's squad selected players are: Hayley Hodgson, Ellie Prescott, Cath Sewell, Fleur Stanton and Tara Varndell-Corps, with Hayley Hodgson and Cath Sewell selected for the first match this weekend.
Cumbria Men also start their County Championship campaign on Saturday, 7 May with a game against Staffordshire at Wigton, 3pm K.O. Disappointingly, the RFU has ordered Kendal to play a re-arranged final North One West game with Douglas (IoM) on Saturday 7 May, denying the county the availability of ELEVEN Kendal squad players.
Team manager Gary Hewer said “We have had two good training sessions and are meeting again tonight. The Kendal lads would have played a big part I’m sure, but it’s happened and we are ready to get on with it. We are fortunate that lads who play their rugby outside the county and at a decent level, have made themselves available. It’s two years since we last played a county game and, of course, we went all the way to Twickenham to beat Dorset and Wilts in the Sir Bill Beaumont County Championship Division Three final. That has moved us up a Division, so it will be tougher but we have some good players in a deep squad even without our Kendal players”
The Kendal men's squad selected players are: Dan Shorrock, Danny Barker, Robbie Collinson, Ben Leacock, Ben Dixon, Glen Weightman, Glenn Chesher, Greg Wrathall, Reece Tomlinson, Steven Nelson and Matty Houghton.
Cumbria will follow-up this weekend's match with a home fixture at Carlisle next week 14 May, against East Midlands and finish off on May 21 at Nuneaton against Warwickshire.
Cumbria is playing in Pool 1 of the Bill Beaumont Championship Division Two. Contesting Pool 2 are Dorset and Wilts, Eastern Counties, Essex and Somerset. Cumbria beat Dorset and Wilts in the Division Three final in 2019 and more famously beat Somerset in 1997 in the main County Championship final.