{"id":38320,"date":"2012-12-17T11:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=38320"},"modified":"2020-10-22T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:09:14","slug":"ballymena-rfc-notes-official-report-ballymena-win-first-trust-senior-cup-for-second-year-in-succession-report-action-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ballymena-rfc-notes-official-report-ballymena-win-first-trust-senior-cup-for-second-year-in-succession-report-action-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymena RFC Notes: Official Report &#8211; Ballymena win First Trust Senior Cup for second year in succession ~ Report + Action Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wet night at Ravenhill made conditions diffcult, but Ballymena&#8217;s superior strength and skill dominated a gallant Rainey team almost from the start of the eighty minutes. Rainey took an early lead with a penalty, but a retreating scrum and a malfunctioning lineout meant they never really got into the game. In all Ballymena scored three tries by Peter Budina, John Burns and Simon Shaw; Tim Small, converted two, and kicked two penalties,while Rainey&#8217;s only response was a second penalty to leave the final score 25-6. The &#8216; Man of the Match&#8217; award,decided by the Rugby writers in the Press box, went to Ian Caldwell, pictured with the Cup and his award. CLICK HERE for action pics by Ken Fleming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wet night at Ravenhill made conditions diffcult, but Ballymena&#8217;s superior strength and skill dominated a gallant Rainey team almost from the start of the eighty minutes. Rainey took an early lead with a penalty, but a retreating scrum and a malfunctioning lineout meant they never really got into the game. In all Ballymena scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17197,4719,3959],"class_list":["post-38320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballymena","tag-ballymena","tag-club","tag-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320","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=38320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632108,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions\/632108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}