City of Derry defended their home record and in the process crashed the much favoured Harlequins outfit out the Ulster Senior Cup. Although Derry thoroughly deserved their 24-22 victory at Judges Road the victory looked unlikely until two brilliant individual efforts that sealed the comeback! The encounter mirrored the previous week in the early quarter […]
Randalstown 2nds opened their league campaign under new management and returned a creditable 55 – 18 victory over their Holywood counterparts. It didn’t take ‘Town long to settle into their stride on Saturday afternoon and they were quickly rewarded with a penalty which went unconverted. This was followed up by the first of 9 tries […]
Enniskillen took this game by the scruff of it’s neck early on despite a freshening breeze, which probably favoured the visitors in the opening half, and took an early lead through the boot of James McIntyre inside the first five minutes after some early pressure on the Ballyclare line. ‘Skins were showing some great enterprise, […]
The Maxol-sponsored Carrick 1st XV travelled to Letterkenny on Saturday 10 September and came away with an 18 points to 14 victory to take them to the top of the League table. At Tom Simms Memorial Park, the 2nd XV survived a last quarter fight-back by Ballyclare II to win by 25 points to 19. […]
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Ballymena Academy entertained Wallace High School on Saturday morning with both teams missing several players involved with representative squads. From start to finish, the game was completely dominated by the referee’s whistle, with neither side able to establish any sort of pattern or dominance. Not surprisingly, it was a penalty that led to the opening […]
With two U19 Inter Provincial games being played against Leinster U19’s at Dungannon Rugby Club a number of schools were without some front line players when their teams took the field on Saturday 10th. The U19 “A” team lost by 36-6 to a strong Leinster team despite the best efforts of players such as Stuart […]
It was evident from the outset that there was only ever going to be one winner in this contest. The Armoy pack were bigger, stronger and better organised than there opponents, the latter point being due to new coach Ian Caldwell who has taken everything back to basics in his training and this was evident […]
Portadown U17’s 18 – 10 Cavan U17’s Portadown under 17s kicked off the 2011/12 season with a long trip away to Cavan, not an ideal start to any season but the young side took it in their stride and the enthusiasm to play a competitive match after 6 weeks of pre-season training was clear to […]