Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Bowl
On Saturday, Friends’ School Lisburn played Larne Grammar School in their Bowl Round of Sixteen qualifier game.
Friends’ were made to work hard before emerging with a 20-17 win and will now go on to host Belfast High School in the Schools’ Bowl Round of Sixteen, on Saturday 25 January.
Friends’ School scored three tries through Joel Collins, Ethan Mageean and Etah Salt.
Ross Glover added one successful conversion kick with Harry Moore converting a vital penalty kick to secure the victory for the Friends’ School team.
On the back of good performances from players such as Jonny Dallas and Joel Farquhar, Ryan McDowell, the Larne Grammar School IRFU Age Grade U18 winger, ran in for a hattrick of tries.
Ethan Duncan added the extras to one of those tries.
Danske Bank Ulster Schools' 2XV Competitions
In the quarter-finals of the 2XV Plate, Coleraine Grammar School played Rainey Endowed School under the floodlights at Coleraine RFC.
Coleraine Grammar won this hard-fought encounter by 10-7.
Both teams, their coaches and spectators, would like to thank Coleraine RFC for the use of facilities and hosting the game.
Sullivan Upper School played Royal School Armagh in a game the Royal School Armagh team won by 31-14.
In the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ 2XV Trophy quarter-final, Omagh Academy hosted Antrim Grammar School and recorded a 38-14 victory.
On Friday, Dalriada School hosted Royal School Dungannon in the quarter-final of the 2XV Trophy at Ballymoney RFC.
The final score in this game was Dalriada 7 RS Dungannon 31.
Both teams, their coaches and spectators would like to thank Ballymoney RFC for the provision of facilities and hosting the game.
In the quarter-finals of the 2XV Cup, all four games took place.
Campbell College Belfast played Belfast Royal Academy and won the game by 56-14.
Enniskillen Royal Grammar School played Royal Belfast Academical Institution in a game RBAI won by 52-12.
Regent House School played Ballymena Academy in a game Ballymena won by 14-7.
Wallace High School played Methodist College Belfast and won the game by 15-10.
Ballyclare High School hosted Bangor Grammar School in their 2XV Plate quarter-final game.
The final score in this game was 45-15 to Ballyclare..
In the 2XV Trophy quarter-finals, Portadown College played Down High School and recorded a 34-26 win.
Dromore High School hosted their near neighbours from Banbridge Academy and won a very close encounter by 33-31.
Danske Bank Ulster Schools' 3XV Competitions
On Monday, Royal School Armagh 3XV played Sullivan Upper 3XV in their recently postponed 3XV Trophy Round of Sixteen game.
Royal School Armagh won this closely contested game by 8-5.
On Tuesday, Belfast Royal Academy 3XV played Wallace High School 4XV in their postponed 3XV Trophy Round of Sixteen game.
BRA won this game by 45-5.
On Wednesday, the recently postponed 3XV Trophy Round of Sixteen games took place.
Foyle College 3XV played Enniskillen Royal Grammar School 3XV. ERGS won this game by 21-14.
Regent House School 3XV played Royal Belfast Academical Institution 5XV in a game RBAI won by 27-20.
In the 3XV Trophy, Ballymena Academy 3XV played Omagh Academy 3XV in a game the Ballymena Academy team won by 31-0.
On the same afternoon, Our Lady and St Patrick’s College, Knock played Carndonagh Community College in their 3XV Trophy Round of Sixteen game.
The final scoreboard read Our Lady and St Pat’s 7-35 Carndonagh Community College.
Both teams, their coaches and supports would like to thank Civil Service RFC for the provision of facilities and hosting the game.
Once the results of these Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ 3XV Trophy Round of Sixteen games were known, the draws for the 3XV Trophy quarter-finals were conducted.
3XV Trophy Quarter-Finals
- Carndonagh Community College v Royal Belfast Academical Institution 5XV
- Royal School Armagh 3XV v Belfast Royal Academy 3XV
- Royal Belfast Academical Institution 3XV v Enniskillen Royal Grammar School
- Banbridge Academy 3XV/Methodist College Belfast 5XV v Ballymena Academy 3XV
These games MUST be played on/before Saturday 25 January.
Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Medallion Competitions
Medallion Shield
On Friday, Omagh Academy played Methodist College Belfast in the first of the Medallion Shield Round of Sixteen games.
At the end of this game, it was Methodist College that emerged with a hard earned 11-10 victory.
On Saturday, seven Round of Sixteen games took place.
Antrim Grammar School played Friends’ School Lisburn in a game Friends’ won by 12-5.
Ballyclare High School played Sullivan Upper School with Sullivan recording a 22-10 victory.
Campbell College Belfast played Belfast Royal Academy and won the game by 28-7.
Dalriada School played Larne Grammar School in a game Larne Grammar won by 29-5.
Down High School played Ballymena Academy in a game that finished as a 7-7 draw.
The replay should be scheduled to take place in the coming week.
Royal Belfast Academical Institution played Royal School Dungannon and won the game by 47-7.
Wallace High School played Rainey Endowed School and recorded a hard-earned 17-15 victory.
Medallion Bowl
In the quarter-final of the Medallion Bowl, Bangor Grammar School played Cambridge House Grammar School under the floodlights at Bangor RFC.
Bangor Grammar won this game by 15-3.
Both teams, their coaches and spectators would like to thank Bangor RFC for the use of facilities and hosting the game.
On Saturday, in the quarter-finals of the Medallion Bowl, two games were played.
Enniskillen Royal Grammar School played Grosvenor Grammar School and won the game by 24-12.
Royal School Armagh played Foyle College and recorded a 45-15 win.
Medallion Trophy
On Thursday, Bangor Academy played Dromore High School in the quarter-final of the Medallion Trophy.
This game was very evenly fought with Bangor Academy ending the game as 27-24 winners.
The quarter-final between Rathfriland High School and Lurgan College saw the Lurgan College team progress to the semi-final stage of the Trophy.
On Saturday, two quarter-finals took place.
Banbridge Academy played Portadown College and won the game by 26-5.
Limavady Grammar School played Belfast High School in a game the Belfast High won by 12-8.
Ulster Development Squads
On Monday, Royal School Armagh 1XV provided the opposition for the Ulster U18 Clubs at the Meadowbank Stadium in Magherafelt.
RS Armagh team won this game by 40-7 and scored six tries.
Cameron Cummings ran in for a hattrick of tries, Sam Gray touched down for a brace with Finlay Starrett adding a sixth try.
Tom Kennedy was successful with three conversion kicks while Adam Harrison added the extras to two tries.
Ulster Clubs scored a try through Jack Robinson from Letterkenny RFC with Jack adding the extras to his try.
Friendlies
Wallace High School travelled to Dublin recently where they played a game against St Mary’s College.
The game finished with an honours even 15-15 draw.
St Mary’s scored two tries through Eoghan Brady and Luke Lennon with Eoghan kicking one conversion as well as one penalty,
Wallace scored three unconverted tries through Michael McCavery, Harry Daniel and Alex Stephenson.
With several Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ competition games postponed recently due to frozen pitches, replays took place during the week.
Four 1XV friendly games took place on Wednesday.
Belfast High School played Grosvenor Grammar School in a high scoring encounter Belfast High won by 29-24.
The Belfast High points came through two tries apiece for Rory Dunlop and Ben Gardner with Archie Cruickshank adding three successful conversion kicks and Ben adding one penalty goal.
Ewan Roberts, Adam Osborne and Harley Huntley scored the Grosvenor tries with Shea Taggart adding two successful conversion kicks as well as one penalty goal.
Cambridge House Grammar School played Bangor Grammar School with Cambridge House winning this closely contested encounter by 19-17.
Scott Steele, Justin Marks and Henri Kyle scored the Cambridge House tries.
Justin capped a fine personal performance when he added two successful conversion kicks.
Bangor Grammar scored their points through tries from George Patterson, Cal Banyard and Rory Fulton with Adam Bickerstaff adding one successful conversion.
Enniskillen Royal Grammar School played their annual fixture against Sligo Grammar School in a game the Sligo Grammar by 19-17.
Enniskillen Royal took an early 7-0 lead when Jake Irwin ran in for a try which Sam Paton converted.
Sligo Grammar responded with tries from Diarmuid O’Connell and Andrew Deegan.
One conversion from Mark Tempany saw the Sligo team take a 12-7 lead into the break.
The early stages of the second half saw this lead extend to 19-7 when Cathal Moffatt touched down for a try which Mark Tempany converted.
Enniskillen Royal then mounted something of a comeback.
Josh Hicks and Adam Little ran in for one try apiece but both tries went unconverted.
This ensured the final scoreboard read Enniskillen Royal 17 Sligo Grammar 19.
At Pollock Park, home of Lurgan RFC, Lurgan College played Limavady Grammar School in another very closely contested encounter Limavady Grammar won by 21-19.
Lurgan College scored their points through tries from Andrew Bird, Ben Maxwell and Daniel Wilson.
Ben was successful with one conversion kick with Andrew Lyttle adding one successful conversion kick of his own.
Limavady Grammar scored three tries through Killian Brolly, Alexander Howe and James Laird.
James capped a great personal performance with three successful conversion kicks.
Both teams were delighted to get a game and all the players involved, their coaches and spectators would like to thank Lurgan RFC for the use of facilities and hosting the game.
On Saturday two 1XV friendly games took place.
Carrickfergus Grammar School played Grosvenor Grammar School and won the game by 17-5.
With players such as Max Matuszewski, Joshua Oluwatula and Rory Pollard to the fore, the Carrickfergus Grammar School team had built up a 7-0 lead by the interval with a try from Dawson Taylor which was converted by Alex McAllister.
An early Alex McAllister penalty, shortly after the restart, increased the Carrickfergus Grammar School lead to 10-0.
Grosvenor Grammar School then responded and an unconverted try from Robin Cooper to reduce the deficit to 10-5.
Following a period of play when players such as Adam Brown, Cameron Magill, Saul Logan and Toby Keating exchanged passes, Harry Bell ended the flowing move with a try.
Alex McAllister added the extras to secure the 17-5 win for Carrickfergus GS.
Dalriada School played Foyle College in a game Dalriada won by 42-7.
Isaac Moore and Angus Graham both scored a brace of tries with Archie Graham and Alfie Millar touching down for one try apiece.
Alfie capped a fine personal performance with six successful conversion kicks.
Foyle College scored their points through a Cian O’Leary try which was converted by Darwyn Nutt.