Ballymena Academy secured another late dramatic win for the second match in a row, beating Methodist College Belfast 11 – 10 in this Northern Bank Semi Final with a last minute try. Timing is everything, and Ballymena’s John Andrew’s timing is impeccable as the versatile forward has popped up to score the winning try on […]
Tuesday 2nd March. Report from Ulster Branch, pictures from Colin Heyburn. Belfast Royal Academy emerged as deserved winners from the first of the Northern Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup Semi-Final games after their hard fought victory against a dogged Wallace High School team. The Belfast Royal Academy team was playing the more expansive rugby in the […]
Saturday 27th February Report and photography from John McMurtry. Friends School’s cup run ended in heartbreak in this quarter-final replay against Ballymena Academy. Leading 10 – 6 with time running out Friends were denied a trip to Ravenhill with a dramatic try from Ballymena’s No 8 Andrew with the final play of the match. Patterson […]
Friends School Lisburn served up another exciting game in this Northern Bank Schools Cup quarter-final against Ballymena Academy on Tuesday afternoon at Ballymena Rugby Club. Leading 11 – 3 going into the last quarter Friends looked the likely winners but a controversial yellow carding of Friends talismanic No. 8 David McGuigan allowed Academy to snatch […]
With last Saturday’s quarter final Schools’ Cup and Subsidiary Shield fixtures having been abandoned due to frozen pitches, these fixtures have now been arranged as follows. NORTHERN BANK SCHOOLS’ CUP- QUARTER FINALS: Tuesday 23rd February Methodist College v Ballyclare High School Pirrie Park Belfast, ko 1.30pm Ballymena Academy v Friends’ School Ballymena Academy, ko 2.00pm […]
Saturday 6th February 2010 Friends School Lisburn staged a dramatic fightback to win this exciting encounter against Sullivan Upper School in the 4th round of the Northern Bank Schools Cup. This match was easily my favourite encounter in a weekend packed with rugby. Quite simply, it had it all, thrills, spills, a little argy bargy, […]
There is certainly an air of expectation around Friends School Lisburn as they prepare for this Saturday’s fourth round match in the Northern Bank Schools Cup against Sullivan Upper School. KO 10:30am. Despite losing to the Holywood based side earlier in the season, 1st XV Coach Stephen Robinson is looking forward to the game and […]
Despite a late fightback from Grosvenor, CAI managed to hold on for a 10 – 17 win in this hard fought match at Grosvenor Grammar. CAI opened the scoring on 10 minutes with a try by Patrick Farrell after great work by Keith McKnight and Michael Shiels who turned over the Grosvenor scrum half allowing […]
Larne Grammar lost this third round Northern Bank Schools Cup tie against a powerful Friends School Lisburn by a score of 0 – 15. Despite the scoreline it was a closely contested game throughout with both sides creating chances in this bruising encounter. Larne Grammar started strongly in bright sunlight and put Friends under pressure […]
Limavady Grammar 13 – 7 Banbridge Academy. We have two reports for this match the first is from Banbridge. Banbridge Academy 1st XV crashed out of the Schools Cup on Saturday in a closely fought and entertaining third round game away to Limavady Grammar. The final score of 13 – 7 to Limavady is evidence […]