{"id":687485,"date":"2025-03-03T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=687485"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:41:14","slug":"danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-1st-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-1st-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 1st March 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 1st March 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday 24th February saw Royal School, Dungannon play Ballyclare High School in their previously postponed Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Bowl 1\/2 Final game.
\nThe final score in this game was Royal School, Dungannon 13 Ballyclare High School 30.
\nThe Royal School, Dungannon points came through a try from Max Patterson alongside one conversion and two penalty goals from James Gibson.
\nThe Ballyclare High School team scored four tries through Andrew Cooper, with two, Zach Thompson and Ross Ferguson.
\nJames Woodside contributed two successful conversion kicks, as well as two penalty goals, off the tee.
\nBallyclare High School will now play Limavady Grammar School in the final of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Bowl at the Kingspan Stadium on Wednesday 5th March.
\nOn Tuesday 25th February, Pirrie Park was the venue when Sullivan Upper School played Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn in the replay of their previously drawn Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Shield 1\/2 final game.
\nThe Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn team won this very closely contested game by 8-7 and will now prepare to play the Royal Belfast Academical Institution team in the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Shield final at the Kingspan Stadium on Tuesday 4th March at 2-30pm.
\nClose by at the Kingspan Stadium, Royal School, Armagh and Rainey Endowed School played in the first of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup semi-finals in front of a large crowd of enthusiastic supporters.
\nThe Royal School, Armagh dominated both territory and possession for long periods of time and ran out as 48-19 winners.
\nLed by their impressive captain, Thomas Dougan, the Royal School, Armagh team scored four tries in each half of the game.
\nCharlie Reaney, Cameron Cummings and Will Boyd, with a brace, scored the first half tries, to which Evan Hughes added two conversions.
\nEvan then went on to score two tries in the second half, with Ryan Hamilton doing likewise.
\nEvan added one successful conversion and Adam Harrison a second successful conversion in the course of the second half.
\nThe Rainey Endowed School team added a lot to the game in terms of the pace at which they played game.
\nLorcan McLarnon scored a first half try which was converted by Owen O\u2019Kane.
\nThe second half saw the Rainey Endowed team score two further tries through Owen O\u2019Kane and Eoin McGucken to which Owen O\u2019Kane added one successful conversion.
\nOn Wednesday 26th March, Wallace High School and Belfast Royal Academy played in the second Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup semi-final at the Kingspan Stadium.
\nA large crowd of enthusiastic supports had gathered to watch this game which ended with a scoreline of Wallace High School 28 Belfast Royal Academy 15.
\nThe Wallace High School team scored four tries through Quinn Armstrong, their dynamic captain, Jon Rodgers, Rio McDonagh and Michael McCavery.
\nJosh Geddis was successful with all four of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Belfast Royal Academy team contributed a lot to the game and their positive attitude was rewarded with tries from Ryan Calwel and Frank Davis.
\nConnor McVicker was successful with one conversion kick as well as one penalty goal.
\nThe Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup final, featuring Royal School, Armagh and Wallace High School, will take place at the Kingspan Stadium on Monday March 17th at 3-00pm.
\nOn Thursday 27th February, the Rainey Endowed School Medallion team played the Royal School, Dungannon Medallion team in their previously postponed Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Plate 1\/2 Final game.
\nThe Rainey Endowed School team won the game by 15-0 and will now play Down High School in the final of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Plate at Malone RFC on Saturday 8th March at 10-30am.
\nOn Saturday 1st March, the previously postponed Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Bowl final took place at Royal School, Dungannon where Royal School, Armagh played Enniskillen Royal Grammar School.
\nThe Royal School, Armagh team won this Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Bowl final by 14-3.
\nAfter the final whistle, Greg Irwin, Junior Vice-President of the Ulster Branch, Irish Rugby Football Union, congratulated both teams, as well as their coaches, on reaching the final, thanked the parents\/guardians of all the players for their support given to the players throughout the season, thanked the referee, Alan O\u2019Neill, and his team of Stephen Crooke and Laura Taggart, for the way in which they controlled the game, thanked Royal School, Dungannon and especially Alistair Ferguson and Richard Clingan, for the use of facilities and hosting the game and thanked the Danske Bank for their continued support, now in its 20th season, of all the Ulster Schools\u2019 competitions.
\nGreg then went on to present the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Bowl and finalist medals to all the players involved and the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Medallion Bowl to Jack Beggs, captain of the victorious Royal School, Armagh Medallion team.
\nLooking towards next season, Cambridge House Grammar School played Lurgan College at U17 level.
\nThe final score in this game was Cambridge House Grammar School 14 Lurgan College 17.
\nThomas Caldwell and Seth O\u2019Neill scored the Cambridge House Grammar School tries to which Thomas Moorehead added two successful conversions.
\nThe Lurgan College team scored three tries through Lewis Irwin, Ben Maxwell and Daniel Wilson.
\nAndrew Lyttle was successful with one conversion kick.
\nFoyle and Londonderry College played Omagh Academy in a game at U17 level which the Omagh Academy team won by 22-14.
\nThe Foyle College points came through tries from Cain O\u2019Leary and Shay Grimes with Darwyn Nutt adding the extras to both tries.
\nThe Omagh Academy team scored four tries through Harry McIlwaine, Andrew Beggs and Lewis McIvor, with two.
\nSam Harper landed one successful conversion kick,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 1st March 2025. Monday 24th February saw Royal School, Dungannon play Ballyclare High School in their previously postponed Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Bowl 1\/2 Final game. The final score in this game was Royal School, Dungannon 13 Ballyclare High School 30. The Royal School, Dungannon points came through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":687486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687485","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=687485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687487,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687485\/revisions\/687487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}