Enniskillen Seconds sought to continue the recent improvement to their season on Saturday when
\nhosting Ballyclare.
\nFollowing a late cry-off Tim Finlay stepped into the breach and acquitted himself well, and thanks
\nmust go to him for doing so at short notice.
\nThe visitors had, as always, useful backs and early on they tested the home defence.
\n‘Skins set pieces were again solid and gradually they started to gain a foothold in the
\nvisitors half, and had the first chance to add points but missed a penalty. The
\npressure was kept on, and a good scissors move between Keith Hurst and Paul Burns
\nresulted in a second kickable penalty, but the alert Kyle Johnston took it quickly,
\nsending Ross Finlay over for a fine try.
\n‘Skins forwards were getting a measure of control due to good close work by Gareth Beatty, Neil
\nDickson and the others and further tries were scored by Johnston and Ally Duncan to leave the halftime
\nscore 17 \u2013 0.
\nUnfortunately for ‘Skins Dickson retired at half-time with injury and as a result the second half
\nbecame a struggle with Ballyclare trying to make the one man advantage count by moving the ball
\nwide at every opportunity, and after twenty minutes they scored an unconverted try and followed
\nthis five minutes later with a second to reduce the score to 17 \u2013 10.
\n‘Skins responded well and after a shrewd kick to the corner by
\nskipper Daniel Allister, he himself squeezed over in the corner
\nto extend the lead, but Ballyclare bounced straight back,
\nscoring a good try wide on the right, which was converted to
\ncut the lead to just five points at 22 \u2013 17.
\nThe question was could they score again, but ‘Skins gave their answer when following the restart
\nthe Ballyclare receiver was engulfed in a sea of maroon. From the following play fine interpassing
\nbetween backs and forwards resulted in Tim Finlay scoring between the posts to leave the final
\nscore 27 \u2013 17.
\nThis was a well-deserved win in a fine game played with good spirit. If ‘Skins can play with total
\ncommitment, control and carry out their gameplan then they will be competitive against any
\nopposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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