{"id":20569,"date":"2012-01-09T16:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:50:54","slug":"belfast-harlequins-rfc-notes-i-xv-9-v-ballymena-rfc-i-xv-0-youth-u13u15-u17-training-recommences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/belfast-harlequins-rfc-notes-i-xv-9-v-ballymena-rfc-i-xv-0-youth-u13u15-u17-training-recommences\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Harlequins RFC Notes: I XV 9 v Ballymena RFC I XV 0 & YOUTH (U13,U15 &U17) TRAINING RECOMMENCES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quins weather early Ballymena storm to secure a valuable AIL 1B win in this cracking derby match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quins rushed to fourth spot in the league with a deserved victory over leaders and Ulster rivals Ballymena at Deramore Park.<\/p>\n

The first half was played in difficult weather conditions with Ballymena firing everything but the Kitchen sink at Quins in the first 20 minutes. Quins weathered that storm with a rock solid defence and then composed themselves to take a dominant hold on the game. It was Ian Porter who scored the points for Quins with 3 well taken penalties in the second half.<\/p>\n

Ballymena had the first chance to open the scoring after hooker John Burns won a penalty when he wasn\u2019t released in the tackle but winger John Semple badly sliced his attempt at goal on 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

The conditions grew worse during the first half and neither team were able to get their exciting backlines into the game and it became a war of attrition up front. The first half ended scoreless.<\/p>\n

Four minutes into the second half Porter eventually broke the dead lock with a long range wind assisted penalty after Ballymena were guilty of a high tackle in midfield.
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\nJust 5 minutes later Porter had another penalty opportunity after Ballymena were caught offside but his kick was wide.<\/p>\n

Porter doubled the Quins lead with a second penalty on 62 minutes. There was another high tackle in midfield, just inside the Ballymena half and Porter struck the ball sweetly.<\/p>\n

It looked like Michael Ferguson had barged his way over the Ballymena line on 66 minutes, but he was adjudged to have knocked it on before the ball was grounded.<\/p>\n

The visitors conceded another penalty in front of their own posts with just 7 minutes remaining. A confident Porter slotted over his third successful kick.<\/p>\n

Porter just missed with another penalty from half way in the final minute.<\/p>\n

Starman: Ian Porter for Quins<\/p>\n

Belfast Harlequins:
\nR Scholes, M Allen, M Kettyle, W Stewart, O McMuarry, S Olding, I Porter R Logan, N Annett, M McGrath, G Rourke, S Anett, A Heatlie, L Babe, N McComb
\nReplacements:
\nP Greenaway, M Ferguson, P Rea, A Scott, D Creighton<\/p>\n

Ballymena:
\nR Andrew, R McBurney, A Fraizer, R Aingworth, J Semple M Irwin, B McIlroy
\nC Carey, J Burns, S Shawe, D O\u2019Kane, J Christie, R Hackney, P Pritchard, S Mullholland,
\nReplacements:
\nA Warrick J Carson A Kerr, J Andrew D O\u2019Hara<\/p>\n

YOUTH (U13,U15 &U17) TRAINING RECOMMENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n

YOUTH (U13,U15 &U17) TRAINING RECOMMENCES ON TUESDAY 10TH JANUARY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quins weather early Ballymena storm to secure a valuable AIL 1B win in this cracking derby match. Quins rushed to fourth spot in the league with a deserved victory over leaders and Ulster rivals Ballymena at Deramore Park. The first half was played in difficult weather conditions with Ballymena firing everything but the Kitchen sink […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[6762,5938,17197,937,17312,4275,5304,8436,5816,5672,4938,4445,4909,4281,4936],"class_list":["post-20569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballymena","category-belfast-harlequins","tag-5938","tag-ballymena","tag-belfast","tag-harlequins","tag-i","tag-notes","tag-recommences","tag-rfc","tag-training","tag-u13","tag-u15","tag-u17","tag-xv","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569","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=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20570,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/20570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}