{"id":692464,"date":"2026-09-29T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=692464"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:42:10","slug":"danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-26th-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/danske-bank-ulster-schools-round-up-saturday-26th-september-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 26th September 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 26th September 2026.<\/strong>
\nThe first of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 competitions got underway on Wednesday 23rd September when two Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group A group stage games and two Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group B group stage games took place.
\nIn the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group A games, Omagh Academy played Ballymena Academy and Wallace High School played Methodist College, Belfast.
\nOmagh Academy defeated Ballymena Academy by 19-14 while the Methodist College, Belfast team won their game v Wallace High School by 26-5.
\nIn the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group B games, Royal School, Armagh played Campbell College, Belfast and Sullivan Upper School played Coleraine Grammar School.
\nCampbell College, Belfast defeated Royal School, Armagh by 45-5 with Sullivan Upper School winning their game by against Coleraine Grammar School by 54-26.
\nOn the same afternoon, the first of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield, two Group Stage games took place.
\nIn the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield Group A game, Regent House School hosted Ballyclare High School in a game the Ballyclare High School team came away with a five-point bonus point victory.
\nIn the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Shield Group B, Belfast Royal Academy played Enniskillen Royal Grammar School and won the game by 26-12
\nMeanwhile, at the Magheralave Road venue, Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn hosted Dromore High School in a 1stxv friendly game the Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn team won by 19-0.
\nThe Friends\u2019 School, Lisburn points came through tries from Marc Conn, Joel Irwin and Harry Brady.
\nJohn Hall was successful with two of his conversion kicks.
\nOn Friday 25th September, Upritchard Park, home of Bangor Rugby and Cricket Club, was the venue when Bangor Grammar School entertained Sullivan Upper School in a well-attended floodlit game.
\nThe Sullivan Upper School team won the game by 40-0 with players such as Benjamin French, Henry Calvert, Patrick McClelland, Scott Henderson, Lucas McKeown, Ronan Naysmith and Ross Alderdice all contributing to the Sullivan Upper School score.
\nBoth teams, their coaches and supporters, would like to thank Bangor Rugby and Cricket Club for the provision of facilities and hosting the game.
\nOn the same afternoon, Enniskillen Royal Grammar School played Ballymena Academy at Mullaghmeen, home of Enniskillen RFC, in a game the Ballymena Academy team won by 47-7.
\nHarry Breen scored the Enniskillen Royal Grammar School try to which he added the extras.
\nThe Ballymena Academy team, captained by the impressive Jamie Gregg, had players such as Daniel McKeown, Leo Smith, Jeremiah Gallagher, Lewis Greer, Charlie Stewart, Reuben Skelly and Daniel Mullan to thank for putting points on the scoreboard.
\nBoth teams, their coaches and supporters, would like to thank Enniskillen RFC for the use of facilities and hosting the game.
\nOn Saturday 26th September, the first of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup games took place when Grosvenor Grammar School played Lurgan College in their Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 qualifier game.
\nThe Grosvenor Grammar school team won this Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup qualifier game by 14-0.
\nZane Greenlees and Zayn Ahmed scored the Grosvenor Grammar School tries to which James Campbell added two successful conversion kicks.
\nThis Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup game was refereed by Mark Orr, that doyen of USRFR referees, who is now in his 43rd season of refereeing Ulster Schools\u2019 Cup matches
\nOn the same morning quite a number of 1stxv friendly games took place.
\nBallyclare High School played Larne Grammar School and recorded a 60-21 victory.
\nAustin Adair, Zach Thompson, Adam Johnston, William Shiels, Josh Nesbitt, Jack Morrow, with two, Daniel Montgomery, with two and Ollie Falls were the Ballyclare High School try scorers.
\nJack Smyth was successful with five of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Larne Grammar School team scored three tries through Rory Meldrum, the impressive Ben Ledlie and Jamie Jones.
\nMatthew Crawford added one successful conversion kick with Zak Duncan adding two.
\nBanbridge Academy hosted Omagh Academy in a game the Banbridge Academy team won by 28-17.
\nOn the back of a great performance from James Kerr, the Banbridge Academy team scored four tries through Seth Martin, Sam Leslie, Daniel Byrne and Conor Comiskey.
\nDaniel capped a fine personal performance with four successful conversion kicks.
\nThe Omagh Academy team scored three tries through Adam Keys, Ashton Hassard and Ryan Elliott.
\nSami Braden added the extras to one of the Omagh Academy tries.
\nColeraine Grammar School played Regent House School and won the game by 43-5.
\nSedhlim Penfold, with two, Joe Coates, Luke McMillen, Austin Henry and George McLean scored the Coleraine Grammar School tries to which Reuben Nicholl added one successful penalty goal as well as five successful penalty kicks.
\nJack Heron ran in for an unconverted try for the Regent House School team.
\nDalriada School played Cambridge House Grammar School in a closely contested game the Cambridge House Grammar School team won by 19-14.
\nThe Dalriada School points came through the outstanding Chris Finney who ran in for two tries both of which he converted.
\nThe Cambridge House Grammar School team scored three tries with Ronan Carr touching down for two alongside a third from Thomas Calwell.
\nJames Johnston was successful with two of his conversion kicks.
\nDown High School entertained Royal School, Armagh in a game the Royal School, Armagh team won by 49-19.
\nThe Down High School team scored three tries through Matthew Horner, with two and Graham Moore.
\nLogan Carr and Barry Cooke each kicked one successful conversion.
\nThe Royal School, Armagh team ran in seven tries with James Hamilton scoring four and Ayrton Pienaar James Flanagan and Joel Clarke scoring one try apiece.
\nJoel Clarke had an excellent game \u201coff the tee\u201d with all seven successful conversion kicks.
\nMethodist College, Belfast hosted Blackrock College, Dublin in a game the Blackrock College, Dublin team won by 26-10.
\nPaul Stevenson touched down for a Methodist College, Belfast try with Brody McGowan Gould adding one successful conversion as well as a penalty goal.
\nThe Blackrock College, Dublin team scored four tries through Juliane Browne, Eoghan Rowlands, Felix Burke and Peter Le Roux.
\nHarry Clancy added one successful conversion kick with Felix Burke adding two.
\nPortadown College played Belfast High School and won the game by 52-14.
\nBen McBurney, Daniel Rankin, Isaac Bell, Andrew Galloway, Harvey Creaney, with two, Harry Ritchie and Caleb Ruddell were the try scorers for the Portadown College team.
\nCharlie Rodgers was successful with six of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Belfast High School team ran in for two unconverted tries from Hubert Jaszczak and Will McIlveen.
\nRainey Endowed School played Foyle and Londonderry College and continued their recent run of good form with a 40-24 victory.
\nAdrian Martin scored two Rainey Endowed School tries with James Bell, Rafe Hastings, Senan McNulty and Alfie Paul each scoring one try.
\nAdrian was successful with five of his conversion kicks.
\nThe Foyle and Londonderry College team added a lot of the game and scored four tries in the process.
\nCian O\u2019Leary, Thomas O\u2019Neill, George Rough and Luke Wilson scored the tries with Ethan Gallick adding the extras to two of the Foyle College tries.
\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution played Terenure College, Dublin in a game the Terenure College, Dublin team won by 24-14.
\nThe Royal Belfast Academical Institution points came through tries from Benjamin McCarten and Eliot Magowan with Jonny Kennedy adding two successful conversion kicks.
\nRowan Balamash, Harry Nolan, Rory Curry and Sean Ringwood scored the Terenure College, Dublin tries to which Jamie Sharpe added two successful conversion kicks.
\nWallace High School played Campbell College, Belfast in a game the Campbell College, Belfast team won by 45-0.
\nThe Campbell College, Belfast team scored seven tries through Zach Thompson, Harry Wells, with two, Sam Bowen, Theo Scott, Dylan Armstrong and Tom Osborne.
\nJack Best was successful with five of his conversion kicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 Round Up Saturday 26th September 2026. The first of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 competitions got underway on Wednesday 23rd September when two Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group A group stage games and two Danske Bank Ulster Schools\u2019 U16 Cup Group B group stage games took place. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":692465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692464","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\/692464","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=692464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692466,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692464\/revisions\/692466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}