{"id":16399,"date":"2011-09-25T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=16399"},"modified":"2011-09-25T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:47:56","slug":"dungannon-rugby-club-i-xv-38-v-ballymena-rugby-club-i-xv-13-report-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/dungannon-rugby-club-i-xv-38-v-ballymena-rugby-club-i-xv-13-report-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungannon Rugby Club I XV 38 v Ballymena Rugby Club I XV 13: Report:"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ulster Senior League<\/strong>
\nA good performance by Dungannon ahead of their opening Ulster Bank League
\ngame next Saturday as they gained a bonus point win over country cousins
\nBallymena at Eaton Park. This game was also for the weather postponed 2010
\nJack Kyle Cup.
\nPlaying with wind advantage Dungannon opened the scoring on four minutes
\nwith a well judged Michael Lawton penalty. Some lively running by Stuart
\nMcCloskey, Chris Cochrane almost sent Lawton through but when a penalty was
\nawarded on ten minutes Michael knocked it over. A David O\u2019Hara penalty
\nafter eighteen minutes put Ballymena on the scoreboard.
\n3 – 6
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nJaryd Bennett took full advantage of the wind with a long kick into the
\nBallymena twenty-two. The Dungannon pack kept pressure on their opponents
\nand following surges by Adam Duhig and Glen Sinnamon Timmy Smith added the
\nfinal touch with a try after twenty-three minutes. Michael Lawton added the
\nextras with another good kick in the tricky wind.
\n3 \u2013 13
\nBallymena were punished prior to halftime when their flanker was binned for
\nfoul play and Michael Lawton knocked over the resultant penalty
\n3 \u2013 16
\nDungannon were playing sensibly rugby against the wind but it was David
\nO\u2019Hara who got the score moving with a penalty for Ballymena on fifty-five
\nminutes.
\n6 \u2013 16
\nWe were then treated to the try of the match; when the Dungannon forwards
\ngave the newly cropped Buzz Bloomfield the ball he set the play in motion
\nwith the ball passing through the hands of Jaryd Bennett to Chris Cochrane.
\nThe winger, in his new slippery yellow boots, ghosted through the Ballymena
\ndefence before drawing the fullback and unselfishly off loading to the
\nsupporting Conor Gaston who raced over after the hour. Stuart McCloskey
\nadded the conversion.
\n6 \u2013 23
\nFive minutes later Skipper Mark Jenkinson instigated a play that saw Connor
\nGaston breaking through before repaying the favour when he drew his man and
\npassed to the fluorescent footed Cochrane who raced over for another good
\ntry. This time Jaryd Bennett added the extras.
\n6 \u2013 30
\nThe lively Bloomfield almost created another try but Gannon now had their
\ntails up and a wonderful example of handling from the backs ended with Paul
\nMagee going over for the fourth try on seventy minutes. Bennett again
\nconverted.
\n6 \u2013 37
\nBallymena were now desperate for a score to restore some pride and a clever
\nreverse pass to David O\u2019Hara allowed him room to scamper over for a self
\nconverted try on seventy-seven minutes.
\n13 \u2013 37
\nAt the death Jason Bloomfield almost got a deserved try but the moved was
\nstopped short and ref Hermin blew for time.
\nA good performance by Dungannon and just what Fitzy ordered on the eve of
\nthe AIL. <\/p>\n

Team: Conor Gaston. Christopher Cochrane, Paul McKenzie, Stuart McCloskey,
\nMichael Lawton. Jaryd Bennett, Jason Bloomfield., Glen Sinnamon, Adam Duhig,
\nMark Farquhar. Craig Miller, Mark Jenkinson. Derek Hall, Ali Birch, Rowan
\nHalsall. Ben Howard, Philip Whyte, Timothy Smith, Mark O\u2019Shea, Paul Magee.
\nReferee: Mark Hermin (Randalstown)
\nTries: Timothy Smith, Conor Gaston, Christopher Cochrane & Paul Magee.
\nConversions: Michael Lawton, Stuart McCloskey & Jaryd Bennett (2).
\nPenalty: Michael Lawton (3) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ulster Senior League A good performance by Dungannon ahead of their opening Ulster Bank League game next Saturday as they gained a bonus point win over country cousins Ballymena at Eaton Park. This game was also for the weather postponed 2010 Jack Kyle Cup. Playing with wind advantage Dungannon opened the scoring on four minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[6752,6765,17197,4719,7106,17190,4275,4374,4702,3959,4280,4281],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballymena","category-dungannon","tag-6752","tag-6765","tag-ballymena","tag-club","tag-club-i-xv","tag-dungannon","tag-i","tag-pictures","tag-report","tag-rugby","tag-v","tag-xv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399","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=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16401,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}