Former Beverley Braves player Joe Wardill, now with Super League club Hull Kingston Rovers, has been selected to play for England Academy against France under 18s.
Four Hull Kingston Rovers players have been called up to the England youth development squads for the 2015 season including former Beverley Braves player Owen Harrison.
After a lacklustre start by the Beverley Braves, they found themselves 12 nil down after ten minutes, on a hot Sunday morning at the home of Crigglestone All Blacks in Wakefield. But the lads responded well to a strong but fair team talk by coach, Chris Harrison.
Beverley Braves took part in a game that was the biggest so far for club after they were drawn at home against a strong Blackbrook side from St Helens in the Barla Xamax National Cup.
Locals in Beverley should have a keen interest on the progress of the Robins U16s which features four players Dylan Clifford, Owen Harrison, Harry Inman and Joe Wardill all of who play their rugby for the Beverley Braves.
The Braves started the first match of their Yorkshire campaign with only 13 players due to injuries and illness. The start was aggressive from Farnley who had a wealth of players to choose from.
Beverley played host to the strong Bradford side and were hungry for a place in the quarter finals of the National Cup.
The Beverley Braves played host to top team West Hull in the second of two pre season matches.
Game day for Beverley Braves and this was probably the biggest game of their careers to date. A large crowd had come to support the youngsters against a top division one Yorkshire side.
Conditions were poor for this tense quarter final as the winds swirled round the pitch. Beverley Braves were up against a Yorkshire Division 2 side that had narrowly missed out on promotion this season.
Beverley’s first official game as an U16 was against Eastmoor Dragons from the Yorkshire League Division 4 in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup.
This was the Beverley Braves last league match of the season and they did not disappoint their spectators when they showed their powerful presence from the moment the whistle blew.
Another hot Sunday morning rugby started with a crunching tackle by Joe Wardill which knocked the ball out from the grasps of the Dockers player to be expertly picked up by James McGahey.
After the bitter taste of cup final defeat Beverley Braves wanted to cement their place at the top of the league with a win over their nearest rivals Hull Isberg.
It was not long before the first points were on the score board for the Braves. Despite swirling winds at the Cottingham ground, Beverley executed a clinical move when James McGahey passed to Owen Harrison
This was a friendly fixture on paper but on the pitch it was a different story. Both sides were without key players and the players remaining had to play in different positions to what they are accustomed to.
Beverley continued the season with some more quality rugby as soon as the whistle blew to start the game. Their physical intensity overwhelms the opposition and despite some excellent defensive tackling from Wyke
On a bitterly cold morning Beverley piled on the pressure early pinning Isberg on their own line with some great tackles from James McGahey and Darren Benstead.