{"id":15897,"date":"2011-09-11T18:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=15897"},"modified":"2011-09-11T18:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T18:59:48","slug":"dungannon-rugby-club-i-xv-53-v-rainey-old-boys-rugby-club-i-xv-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/dungannon-rugby-club-i-xv-53-v-rainey-old-boys-rugby-club-i-xv-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungannon Rugby Club I XV 53 v Rainey Old Boys Rugby Club I XV 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Trust Ulster Senior Cup <\/strong><\/p>\n

Cup holders, Dungannon opened their defence of the trophy in fine style at
\nHatrick Park but they had to endure a shaky start against a very plucky
\nRainey outfit. Gavin Martin missed a penalty, albeit against the wind, in
\nthe first minute before David Egner was forced to retreat in defence as the
\nhome side threatened. Elsewhere, Dungannon tried to get their running game
\ngoing with Paul McKenzie and Stuart McCloskey both stopped on midfield runs.
\nHowever, it was Rainey who went close following an intercept by Matt
\nMcClelland and a break from Alan Clarke. For Dungannon, the breakthrough
\ncame on twenty-one minutes. Ben Howard powered forward and a quickly taken
\nfree by Ali Birch caught the home side within ten meters. Michael Lawton
\nconverted the close range penalty.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n0 \u2013 3
\nFollowing the restart Stuart McCloskey made a break that was carried on by
\nPaul McKenzie. When checked Dungannon moved the ball left for Mark Jenkinson
\nto touch down on twenty-three minutes. Michael Lawton added the extras.\"\"<\/a>
\n10 \u2013 10
\nBack came Rainey with some good forward driving before they granted
\nDungannon an absolute gift. Scrumhalf, Peter Sciascia tried to run the ball
\nfrom defence but his pass to Clarke was intercepted. David Egner grabbed the
\nchance with both hands to give Dungannon a lead at the break.
\n0 – 15
\nRainey were more than happy to be just 15 points adrift at the break but
\nDungannon were to produce a dazzling third quarter that yielded four tries.
\nAli Birch ran sixty metres for the first on forty-one minutes before Michael
\nLawton and Paul McKenzie sent Stuart McCloskey clear. Michael Lawton popped
\nover the conversion to on fifty minutes.
\n0 – 27
\nThe introduction of Chris Cochrane in the second half was a key factor in
\nthe next score. Chris broke clear from defence before sending Michael Lawton
\naway for a seven pointer on fifty-four minutes.
\n0 \u2013 34
\nThree minutes later Adam Duhig touched down in the left hand corner
\nfollowing an angled kick from Jaryd Bennett.
\n0 \u2013 39
\nRainey now had a mountain to climb in the final quarter and while they went
\non the offensive on several occasions they could neither open their account
\nnor prevent Lawton and Egner from completing their braces on sixty-one and
\nsixty-eight minutes. Michael Lawton converted his own try while Stuart
\nMcCloskey added the extras to his try.
\n0 \u2013 53
\nThis ended the scoring on what was a satisfactory afternoon for Dungannon. <\/p>\n

Team: Mark O\u2019Shea. Michael Lawton, Paul McKenzie, Stuart McCloskey, David
\nEgner. Jaryd Bennett, Michael Kirkwood. Glen Sinnamon, Adam Duhig, Mark
\nFarquhar. Mark Jenkinson, Craig Miller. Rowan Halsall, Ali Birch, Derek
\nHall. Timothy Smith. Ben Howard, Philip Whyte, Jason Bloomfield, Christopher
\nCochrane.
\nReferee: Jonathan Peak (Instonians)
\nTries: Mark Jenkinson, Ali Birch, David Egner (2), Stuart McCloskey, Adam
\nDuhig & Michael Lawton (2).
\nConversions: Michael Lawton (4) & Stuart McCloskey.
\nPenalty: Michael Lawton <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Trust Ulster Senior Cup Cup holders, Dungannon opened their defence of the trophy in fine style at Hatrick Park but they had to endure a shaky start against a very plucky Rainey outfit. Gavin Martin missed a penalty, albeit against the wind, in the first minute before David Egner was forced to retreat in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,586],"tags":[6762,6833,5898,4719,17190,4275,5897,5896,3959,4281],"class_list":["post-15897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dungannon","category-rainey-old-boys","tag-6833","tag-boys","tag-club","tag-dungannon","tag-i","tag-old","tag-rainey","tag-rugby","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15901,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15897\/revisions\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}