A family fun day and the first of what is hoped will be an annual State of Origin match for the U13s team was held Sunday 15 September.

A bottle raffle, cake stall and kit sale raised almost £400 for the team which hopes to go to various tours this season.

Thank you to sponsors Word-It and company ChannelMEP who provided T-shirts for the West Folkestone Blues versus East Folkestone Maroons teams.

The result was 20-20 with the teams very evenly balanced. Blues were 2 tries up, but Maroons pushed hard and clawed it back.

*The State of Origin series is an annual best-of-three rugby league series between two Australian state representative sides, the New South Wales Blues and the Queensland Maroons.