Some 240 children from 18 schools from around Lochaber took to the field of Lochaber’s rugby pitch  at Banavie for the annual inter-school Tag competition.

It was a busy day earlier this month with lots of excellent and really enjoyable rugby from the youngsters from around the Lochaber area.

Lochaber's Tag competition

The pitch was divided into four sections with P4/5a having two smaller pitches and the P6/7s with the bigger. Each age-group then went onto semi finals with all of them being great games. The final game for the P4/5s was Morar v Inverlochy which Morar were able to win in spite of Inverlochy’s tenacity. Fort William won the P6/7 final in a hard battle against Fort William RC.

Later on in the afternoon three of the four Lochaber High Schools, Kinlochleven, Mallaig and Lochaber competed at S1/S2 level.  Mallaig and Lochaber both fielded two teams. This time it was a round robin, which Mallaig Green team won.

Scottish Rugby Education Manager and manager of the SVQ programme Paul Kesterton said:  “It was wonderful to see so many children playing and enjoying rugby. The standard of play was terrific and a great deal of credit must go to Steven Traill, Lochaber’s SVQ for all his coaching efforts and of course Active Schools for co-ordinating such a fantastic day. And it stayed dry!”