On Saturday Armagh Power NI 3rdxv hosted a strong Randalstown 2ndxv, with
\nconditions near perfect the home side kicked off. With the chase Stuart
\nMcMahon and Paul Cully made 2 great tackles and the opposition lost the ball
\nforward. The scrum that followed Randalstowns defence held strong and they
\nturned the ball over via a knock on. From this scrum the powerful front row
\nof Jason McMahon, James Knox and Andrew Fletcher won the ball against the
\nhead and Captain Chris Wallace picked from the scrum, beat town’s 6 and
\nscored left of the posts. The conversion was missed.<\/p>\n
Randalstown kicked off and Armagh, through outhalf Andy Knipe, cleared the
\nball deep into the visitors ’22’. From here Armagh stole the line out and
\ndrove toward the line only being held out by some tough defence. ‘Town’
\nmanaged to hold out and clear their lines, from the line out Armagh launched
\nanother set of attacks with centres Laverty and Straghan hitting some hard
\nlines breaking the gain line letting the back row of Stanley Hamilton, Sam
\nKnipe and Chris Wallace to cause problems out wide. Following some good work
\nscrum half David Spratt off the back of the scrum Full Back Eddie Irwin
\ndotted down under the posts. The conversion was missed. 10 – 0 half time<\/p>\n
Armagh Power NI received the kick off and began to work back up the pitch
\nagain, but with a renewed vigour Randalstown turned the ball over and made
\ngood ground through their centres and gained a penalty for hands in at the
\nruck. Their Full Back stepped up and knocked the kick over to bring the
\nscore back to 10 – 3. Armagh kicked off and again Randalstown worked hard
\nand got back to a scoring position but winger Adam Brennan made a great
\ncover tackle, but at this ruck Armagh were again found to have hands in at
\nthe ruck. The resultant penalty was kicked to make the score 10 – 6. From
\nthe next kick off Armagh woke up and made some great tackles to get the ball
\nback in hand with Lewis Morton working hard at the break down. With a great
\nrun from prop McMahon Armagh got to the line but lost the ball forward and
\nthe visitors cleared their lines. From this line out Chris Wallace stole the
\nline out and the pack formed a maul driving inroads towards the line, with
\ngood control Stanley Hamilton claimed the try. The conversion was missed. 15
\n– 6.<\/p>\n
Randalstown weren’t done yet and from the kick off they immediately
\ngathered the ball and their winger scored out wide with the conversion taken
\nthe score was brought back to 15 – 13. Armagh had to fight their way back up
\nthe pitch in the last moments of the game and eventually got themselves into
\nan attacking position and with the line out and next ruck Andrew Fletcher
\npowered his way over near the posts, Hamilton converted. With the final
\nplays of the game Armagh cleared the ball and the ref blew the final whistle
\nand Armagh definitely felt relived having not played at their best and
\nletting the opposition live off their mistakes. But with this young side
\nthere is much more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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