{"id":5397,"date":"2010-10-11T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:46:46","slug":"ballymena-secure-another-bonus-point-win-ballymena-i-xv-31-v-old-crescent-i-xv-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ballymena-secure-another-bonus-point-win-ballymena-i-xv-31-v-old-crescent-i-xv-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymena secure another bonus point win: Ballymena I XV 31 v Old Crescent I XV 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching half time playing with a very strong breeze, Ballymena led by nine points, all from the boot of Luke Marshall, Davy Patton&#8217;s Man of the Match.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ballymena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ballymena.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ballymena\" width=\"154\" height=\"125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5401\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pic4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pic4-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pic4\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5399\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat didn&#8217;t seem enough and even the addition of five points through a Warwick try to make it fourteen points, looked too small a lead to defend in the second half. However, a first class defensive performance kept Old Crescent out for the entire game and some brilliant running from the backs created three second half tries, to give the home side a bonus point for the second week in a row. Final score 31-3<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pic5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pic5-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pic5\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Pictures of Ballymena v Old Crescent  &#8211; click here &#8211;  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching half time playing with a very strong breeze, Ballymena led by nine points, all from the boot of Luke Marshall, Davy Patton&#8217;s Man of the Match. That didn&#8217;t seem enough and even the addition of five points through a Warwick try to make it fourteen points, looked too small a lead to defend in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3579,3195,3],"tags":[2727,3580],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballymena","category-old-crescent","category-qualifying-3","category-ulster-rugby","tag-ballymena-rfc","tag-old-crescent-rfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631811,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/631811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}