{"id":19042,"date":"2011-11-29T22:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=19042"},"modified":"2011-11-29T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:46:39","slug":"coleraine-rfc-are-in-the-semi-finals-of-the-all-ireland-junior-cup-after-convincing-win-over-dundalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/coleraine-rfc-are-in-the-semi-finals-of-the-all-ireland-junior-cup-after-convincing-win-over-dundalk\/","title":{"rendered":"COLERAINE RFC Are In The Semi-finals of the All-Ireland Junior Cup after convincing win over Dundalk!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a powerful display Coleraine won 29-15 and are the sole Ulster representatives remaining in the competition. The opposition for the February 4 fixture will come from Tullamore, Westport or Moneyvea, the draw to take place at a later date.<\/p>\n

There was a large turnout of support for the game at the weekend and the visiting Dundalk players put in a very spirited performance. In the end Coleraine gained the upper hand and made sure of their place in the semis.<\/p>\n

Coleraine put the first points on the scoreboard after only five minutes. Scrum-half Paul Roxborough slotted the ball between the posts for a drop goal after good work by the pack gained possession.<\/p>\n

With 18 minutes gone Coleraine\u2019s David Andrews came close with a penalty attempt but the ball drifted off-target in the blustery conditions.
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\nAndrews was in the centre of the action a couple of minutes later when he played a well judged up and under, chasing up and gathering the ball himself to score a great try. The conversion was just wide and the score was 8-0.<\/p>\n

The visitors were not downhearted and in the next ten minutes notched up two tries. The first came to Errol Boyle with a well worked try. The conversion missed.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later Dundalk hooker Jonny Gray forced his way over the line for the try and scrum half Johnathan Williams converted, bringing the score to 8-12.<\/p>\n

From the restart Coleraine attacked deep into Dundalk territory and the pressure saw mistakes being made, Dundalk\u2019s No 8 Greg Whately being shown a yellow card. Roxborough took a quick penalty setting up David Orr to cross the try line in the corner. The conversion again drifted in the wind, the score 13-12.<\/p>\n

Just before half time Steven Dickey made a great break deep into the Dundalk 22 and some defensive errors resulted in a penalty for Coleraine. Andrews was on target for three points and the half time score was Coleraine 16 Dundalk 12.<\/p>\n

In the second half Greg Jordan replaced Andrews. Dundalk picked up an early three points when a concerted attack yielded a penalty and David Clare was on target to bring the visitors back to within one point at 16-15.<\/p>\n

With 13 minutes gone Coleraine again attacked and forced another penalty. Jordan took over kicking duties and slotted the ball between the posts from 30 metres for three points.<\/p>\n

Ten minutes later Jordan claimed another three points from a penalty, 15 metres from the line.<\/p>\n

The final try in the match went to Coleraine prop David Ferguson. <\/p>\n

Coleraine surged towards the Dundalk 22 and Jordan made an incisive break sliding past several defenders before off-loading to the charging Ferguson. He sprinted for the line, bursting through the final two defenders and diving across the line under the posts. Jordan claimed the extra points and a short time later the match ended, Coleraine 29 Dundalk 15.<\/p>\n

It was a solid performance and coaches will be looking to carry the momentum through to this weekend\u2019s Junior Cup match against Ballymena Seconds. It will be a difficult encounter, against strong opposition, but Coleraine will be determined to get the better of the meeting and hoping that they will again have the support of a large crowd to spur them on.<\/p>\n

In other senior matches the results were Coleraine Thirds 55 Harlequins Thirds 7 and Coleraine Fourths 0 City of Derry Thirds 0<\/p>\n

Coleraine First XV: S Jefferson, D Ferguson, A Gaston, R Cochrane, J Gault, R Gibson, A Neely, S Dickey, P Roxborough, D Andrews, J Henderson, D Orr, S Simpson, N Irwin, B Cochrane. Subs: M Hunter, A Stirling, N Hall, G Jordan, T Van Wyk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a powerful display Coleraine won 29-15 and are the sole Ulster representatives remaining in the competition. The opposition for the February 4 fixture will come from Tullamore, Westport or Moneyvea, the draw to take place at a later date. There was a large turnout of support for the game at the weekend and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450],"tags":[6239,17234,5519,7904,5799,5816,7932,3923],"class_list":["post-19042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coleraine","tag-all-ireland","tag-coleraine","tag-cup","tag-dundalk","tag-junior","tag-rfc","tag-semi-finals","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042","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=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19044,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions\/19044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}