City of Derry Ladies travelled to Enniskillen on Sunday missing 3 regular players and, despite the best efforts of the referee, secured a 4-try bonus point win to move into 2nd place in the league. <\/p>\n
Derry started well and after 3 minutes opened the scoring when after a superb drive from Kylie Boyle captain Di Nixon picked up from the ensuing ruck to score an unconverted try. <\/p>\n
Mid way through the half, which was marred by numerous penalties awarded by the referee against both teams, Enniskillen kicked 3 points following a Derry infringement to bring the score to 5-3. <\/p>\n
Approaching half time \u2018Skins conceded a penalty in their 22. Derry opted for the scrum and captain Di picked up & powered over for her 2nd try to increase the Derry lead to 10-3. <\/p>\n
Just on half time Derry winger Andrea Shepherd was \u2018sin binned\u2019 for no apparent reason and Derry were reduced to 14 for the next 10 minutes. <\/p>\n
The second half, like the first, was dominated by the referee. <\/p>\n
Derry increased their lead 15 minutes into the second half when they won the ball from a ruck and Rachel Lennox fed the ball to the supporting Glenda Mellon. Ulster 2nd row Glenda showed good pace and a big hand off to beat the cover defence from 25 metres to score out wide. <\/p>\n
The game swung back and forth for the next 15 minutes and eventually Enniskillen won the ball at a ruck inside their half. Their centre made a good break and was sprinting towards the Derry try line but was stopped by a superb cover tackle by Julie Simpson. <\/p>\n
With 10 minutes remaining the Derry pack made good ground before scrum half Lennox released winger Ciara McGurk with a well timed pass. The winger showed her undoubted speed & great footwork to sprint 60 metres to score the bonus point try which Lennox converted and Derry led 22-3. <\/p>\n
With the last play of the game Enniskillen managed to cross the Derry line and were clearly held up by Ciara & Di only for the referee to award a controversial try which was converted to leave the final score 22-10 in Derry\u2019s favour. <\/p>\n
The Derry team, fielding several inexperienced players, came away with a fine result on what was a difficult day for both teams. Good play by the Derry pack set up a platform for the backs to attack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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