LIMAVADY GS 34 MATTHEW FINDLER'S SCHOOL 10
Limavady Grammar School played a game recently against Matthew Flinder's School from New South Wales in Australia. The game was played in perfect conditions at the Ballyquin Road venue. Â The visitors received the kick off and, after strong running from their forwards; they spread the ball wide for an unconverted try.
From the restart the Limavady defence seemed to have wakened up with good tackles halting the Matthew Flinders attack. Scott McLean ...
LIMAVADY GS 34 MATTHEW FINDLER'S SCHOOL 10 Limavady Grammar School played a game recently against Matthew Flinder's School from New South Wales in Australia. The game was played in perfect conditions at the Ballyquin Road venue. Â The visitors received the kick off and, after strong running from their forwards; they spread the ball wide for an unconverted try. From the restart the Limavady defence seemed to have wakened up with good tackles halting the Matthew Flinders attack. Scott McLean converted a penalty to reduce the arrears to 3-5.The Limavady team, now with their heads up, quickly worked their way back into the opposition half before, once again, being awarded a penalty that McLean converted to put his team into a 6-5 lead. In a game that was becoming more and more physical up front, Limavady looked to exploit the Matthew Flinder's defence in the wide channels. Joel McBride scored a converted try in the corner from a set piece play. Shortly after this, McLean ran in for a try which he converted to leave his side with a healthy 20-5 lead at half time The second half started as the first had ended with both teams adopting a very physical approach with strong running from both forwards and backs. Once again, from another set piece play, Joel Stirling found himself outpacing the outside backs of the Matthew Flinder's team to put the ball down under the posts. Scott McLean converted the try to put Limavady GS into a 27-5 lead. The next Limavady try came from the forwards after their hard work in a rolling maul enabled Brendan Ferguson to touch the ball down on the line and, again, this try was converted by McLean. Matthew Flinder's kept fighting until the end and received some reward for their endeavours with an unconverted try close to the end of the game. This left the final score at 34-10 in favour of the Limavady Grammar School team with Scott McLean being awarded Man of the Match following a superb performance from both hand and boot. BALLYMENA ACADEMY 54 MATTHEW FINDLER'S SCHOOL 12 Next up for the Flinder's School team was a midweek visit to Ballymena where the Australian team was hosted by the Ballymena Academy team. This game was to prove even more difficult for the Australian visitors as Ballymena ran out as convincing 54-12 winners. PORTADOWN COLLEGE 17 PORTORA RS 17 Portadown College played Portora Royal School in a midweek game that ended with honours even in a 17-17 draw. RS DUNGANNON 5 RS ARMAGH 35 Royal School Dungannon welcomed Jack Milligan back from Ulster U19 duties when they hosted the Royal School Armagh. Despite playing a try scoring role and impressing with his performance, Jack was unable to prevent the visitors from winning the game by 5-35. Armagh took a 0-5 first half lead with an unconverted try from Kyle Faloon. This extended to 0-8 early in the second half when Faloon was successful with a penalty opportunity. The RS Dungannon team replied with a Jack Milligan try following good work from their impressive No 8, Marcus Nelson. RS Armagh then took control of the game and scored further tries from Faloon, Jonny, Philip Matthews, Mervyn Brown and James Irvine. Faloon added one conversion to leave Armagh as deserved 5-35 winners. METHODIST COLLEGE 36 CATHEDRAL SCHOOL 0
METHODIST COLLEGE 43 BRA 0
Last weekend Methodist College Belfast played in a triangular tournament with Belfast Royal Academy and the Cathedral School from Cairns in Australia. Methody won their game against the Cathedral School by 36-0 and by 43-0 against the Belfast Royal Academy team. Players such as Michael Lagan, Connor Kelly, Connor McKee, Josh Bingham and Conall Boomer, returning from representative age grade games, marked their returns by getting amongst the points in the course of the tournament. REGENT HOUSE v METHODIST COLLEGE On Saturday 5th October the Methodist College team travelled to play Regent House, a team that has struggled to find consistency in the opening games of the season. In the course of a controlled training game, in which both teams were without Danske Bank Ulster Schools' representatives, the Methody team had good displays from players such as Rory Cairns, Daniel Coulter and Louis Trainer. The controlled game scenario proved to be a useful exercise for both squads of players as well as their coaches with Methody running in a number of tries in the course of the morning. RAINEY ENDOWED 46 PORTADOWN COLLEGE 20 Rainey Endowed School collected their second trophy in a week when they defeated Portadown College by 46-20 in their annual Vinny Doyle Memorial Cup game. Rainey had built up a 15-13 lead by halftime with tries from Anton Lupari and Eunan Shaw. Kieran Lynch added one conversion as well as a penalty. In response, the Portadown College team scored a converted try as well as two penalties. The Rainey Endowed team scored second half tries through Mark Rooney, Lynch, Samuel Hawe, Andrew Nicholl and Conall Murphy. Lynch added three conversions. Portadown scored one converted second half try. GROSVENOR GS 31 CAMBRIDGE HOUSE 7 Grosvenor Grammar School recorded a 31-7 win against a very determined Cambridge House team. The Ballymena boys started well and took a 0-7 lead before the Grosvenor team got into the game. James Cartilage and Jonah McDowell then scored unconverted tries to put the hosts 10-7 up. Grosvenor started to build the pressure early in the second half and Zac Smith took advantage of good work from Mark Johnston to run in for a try under the posts. Minutes later, hooker, Alex Cullen sold an outrageous dummy and ran in from twenty metres to score a try. Andrew Toland converted both to increase the Grosvenor GS lead to 24-7. Sam Purdon then secured the victory for the Grosvenor GS team with a converted try to leave the final score reading 31-7. OMAGH ACDEMY 36 CARRICKFERGUS 5 Omagh Academy recorded an impressive 36-5 victory against Carrickfergus Grammar School at the Campsie playing fields. The hosts had taken a 12-0 lead by half time with tries from Stuart Ballantine, from the kick-off, and James Catterson. Ballantine added a conversion. The second half saw the home team dominate with tries from Josh McKinley, Jack Mitchell and Lloyd Kane. Ballantine kicked three conversions as well as a penalty. In response, Carrickfergus Grammar scored by taking advantage of some slack home defence to leave the final score reading 36-5. PORTORA RS 19 BANBRIDGE ACADEMY 28 Banbridge Academy travelled to Enniskillen to play Portora Royal School and came away with a hard earned 19-28 victory. The Banbridge team had opened up a 21-0 lead at the interval with tries from Sam McCracken, David Houston and Nathan McKinley. Daniel McElderry was successful with all three conversions. The home team mounted something of a comeback early in the second half when they scored three tries, two of which were converted. However, a fourth Banbridge try, scored and converted by McElderry, secured the 19-28 success. LURGAN COLLEGE 39 WELLINGTON COLLEGE 36 Lurgan College hosted Wellington College in a high scoring game in which they emerged as 39-36 winners. James Patterson scored a penalty in the second minute to give the Lurgan team a 3-0 lead but Wellington replied with an unconverted try four minutes later. Five minutes later Nick McCann touched down for a Lurgan try which Patterson converted to give his team a 10-5 lead. Another Wellington score was cancelled out by a James Laird touch down, converted by Patterson. The visitors kicked a penalty just before the interval to leave the Lurgan College team 17-15 ahead at the break. This was increased to 25-15, shortly after the restart, when first, Jamie Hunter touched down before Patterson added a penalty. Jordan McIlwaine then added to his impressive scoring record, and Curtis Doak also touched down. Two conversions from Patterson extended the advantage to 39-15 lead. Wellington finished with a flourish by running in three converted tries but it was a case of 'too little, too late' for the visitors as Lurgan held on to finish as 39-36 winners. FRIENDS' SCHOOL 13 LARNE GS 24 Larne Grammar School recorded their first win of the season when they travelled to play Friends' School and came away with a 13-24 win. Larne scored four tries, two of which were converted, in the course of the game. In reply, Friends' scored tries through Kyle Andrews and Arthur Wilson ,with James McGuicken adding a penalty. Despite losing the game, players such as Zac Finlay, Russell Dickson and James McGuicken played well for the Lisburn school. FOYLE COLLEGE 14 RS DUNGANNON 10 Foyle College got back to winning ways when they defeated Royal School Dungannon by 14-10. Foyle opened the scoring with a try from Robbie House, which Alex McDonnell converted, but an Archie Hanna score reduced the arrears to 7-5. Foyle added a second when Alex McDonnell took advantage of some slack RS Dungannon to run in and convert for a 14-5 lead. Dungannon's Stuart Moore scored late in the first half to take the score to 14-10, in favour of the Foyle College team, at the interval. Despite the best intentions of both teams to attack at every opportunity in the second half it was the defences that came out on top to leave Foyle as worthy 14-10 winners. DALRIADA SCHOOL 9 WALLACE HS 10 Dalriada School hosted a Wallace High School team that had recorded an excellent in their last outing against Campbell College. The confident Wallace High School players found themselves in a position of having to work hard before they were able to emerge from this game with a narrow 9-10 win. Timmy Emmerson gave Dalriada a 6-0 lead with two penalty kicks. Wallace reduced the arrears to 6-5 when they scored an unconverted try only to see Emmerson put his Dalriada team into a 9-5 lead with another well struck penalty. However, Wallace rallied to score another unconverted try and win the game by 10-9. BALLYMENA ACADEMY 6 COLERAINE AI 5 Following their midweek win against the visiting Australian School team, a game in which Jonathan McKeown and Marcus Rea shone, Ballymena Academy hosted Coleraine Academical Institution. The conditions at the Galgorm Road venue were perfect and so it was somewhat surprising that neither side seemed to be able to settle into any significant period of attacking pressure. Most of the game was contested in the middle third of the field and the few line breaks that were made often resulted in the attacking player becoming isolated. Ballymena's points came from the trusty boot of Rea, who confidently slotted two penalty attempts. As the second half progressed, Coleraine looked more likely to score the first try of the morning. Following an extended period deep in the Ballymena 22, the Coleraine pack generated several phases of quick ball to force their way over in the corner with Marc O'Neill awarded the touch down. The touchline conversion attempt was unsuccessful and the final whistle sounded with the score 6-5 to Ballymena Academy. BRA 3 SULLIVAN UPPER 48 Sullivan Upper travelled to Roughfort to face a Belfast Royal Academy, a side who welcomed back their representative players. Sullivan had seven 1st XV players watching on the sidelines, some through injury and others being rested, but they went into the break with a 3-22 lead before emerging as 3-48 winners. Tries came thick and fast with players such as Fergus Jemphrey, Harry Harper, Chris Jordan and Mark Adair among the scorers. Adair added a number of conversions as well as scoring a great individual try with a break out from his 22m area.
LIMAVADY GS 34 MATTHEW FINDLER'S SCHOOL 10 Limavady Grammar School played a game recently against Matthew Flinder's School from New South Wales in Australia. The game was played in perfect conditions at the Ballyquin Road venue. Â The visitors received the kick off and, after strong running from their forwards; they spread the ball wide for an unconverted try. From the restart the Limavady defence seemed to have wakened up with good tackles halting the Matthew Flinders attack. Scott McLean converted a penalty to reduce the arrears to 3-5.The Limavady team, now with their heads up, quickly worked their way back into the opposition half before, once again, being awarded a penalty that McLean converted to put his team into a 6-5 lead. In a game that was becoming more and more physical up front, Limavady looked to exploit the Matthew Flinder's defence in the wide channels. Joel McBride scored a converted try in the corner from a set piece play. Shortly after this, McLean ran in for a try which he converted to leave his side with a healthy 20-5 lead at half time The second half started as the first had ended with both teams adopting a very physical approach with strong running from both forwards and backs. Once again, from another set piece play, Joel Stirling found himself outpacing the outside backs of the Matthew Flinder's team to put the ball down under the posts. Scott McLean converted the try to put Limavady GS into a 27-5 lead. The next Limavady try came from the forwards after their hard work in a rolling maul enabled Brendan Ferguson to touch the ball down on the line and, again, this try was converted by McLean. Matthew Flinder's kept fighting until the end and received some reward for their endeavours with an unconverted try close to the end of the game. This left the final score at 34-10 in favour of the Limavady Grammar School team with Scott McLean being awarded Man of the Match following a superb performance from both hand and boot. BALLYMENA ACADEMY 54 MATTHEW FINDLER'S SCHOOL 12 Next up for the Flinder's School team was a midweek visit to Ballymena where the Australian team was hosted by the Ballymena Academy team. This game was to prove even more difficult for the Australian visitors as Ballymena ran out as convincing 54-12 winners. PORTADOWN COLLEGE 17 PORTORA RS 17 Portadown College played Portora Royal School in a midweek game that ended with honours even in a 17-17 draw. RS DUNGANNON 5 RS ARMAGH 35 Royal School Dungannon welcomed Jack Milligan back from Ulster U19 duties when they hosted the Royal School Armagh. Despite playing a try scoring role and impressing with his performance, Jack was unable to prevent the visitors from winning the game by 5-35. Armagh took a 0-5 first half lead with an unconverted try from Kyle Faloon. This extended to 0-8 early in the second half when Faloon was successful with a penalty opportunity. The RS Dungannon team replied with a Jack Milligan try following good work from their impressive No 8, Marcus Nelson. RS Armagh then took control of the game and scored further tries from Faloon, Jonny, Philip Matthews, Mervyn Brown and James Irvine. Faloon added one conversion to leave Armagh as deserved 5-35 winners. METHODIST COLLEGE 36 CATHEDRAL SCHOOL 0
METHODIST COLLEGE 43 BRA 0
Last weekend Methodist College Belfast played in a triangular tournament with Belfast Royal Academy and the Cathedral School from Cairns in Australia. Methody won their game against the Cathedral School by 36-0 and by 43-0 against the Belfast Royal Academy team. Players such as Michael Lagan, Connor Kelly, Connor McKee, Josh Bingham and Conall Boomer, returning from representative age grade games, marked their returns by getting amongst the points in the course of the tournament. REGENT HOUSE v METHODIST COLLEGE On Saturday 5th October the Methodist College team travelled to play Regent House, a team that has struggled to find consistency in the opening games of the season. In the course of a controlled training game, in which both teams were without Danske Bank Ulster Schools' representatives, the Methody team had good displays from players such as Rory Cairns, Daniel Coulter and Louis Trainer. The controlled game scenario proved to be a useful exercise for both squads of players as well as their coaches with Methody running in a number of tries in the course of the morning. RAINEY ENDOWED 46 PORTADOWN COLLEGE 20 Rainey Endowed School collected their second trophy in a week when they defeated Portadown College by 46-20 in their annual Vinny Doyle Memorial Cup game. Rainey had built up a 15-13 lead by halftime with tries from Anton Lupari and Eunan Shaw. Kieran Lynch added one conversion as well as a penalty. In response, the Portadown College team scored a converted try as well as two penalties. The Rainey Endowed team scored second half tries through Mark Rooney, Lynch, Samuel Hawe, Andrew Nicholl and Conall Murphy. Lynch added three conversions. Portadown scored one converted second half try. GROSVENOR GS 31 CAMBRIDGE HOUSE 7 Grosvenor Grammar School recorded a 31-7 win against a very determined Cambridge House team. The Ballymena boys started well and took a 0-7 lead before the Grosvenor team got into the game. James Cartilage and Jonah McDowell then scored unconverted tries to put the hosts 10-7 up. Grosvenor started to build the pressure early in the second half and Zac Smith took advantage of good work from Mark Johnston to run in for a try under the posts. Minutes later, hooker, Alex Cullen sold an outrageous dummy and ran in from twenty metres to score a try. Andrew Toland converted both to increase the Grosvenor GS lead to 24-7. Sam Purdon then secured the victory for the Grosvenor GS team with a converted try to leave the final score reading 31-7. OMAGH ACDEMY 36 CARRICKFERGUS 5 Omagh Academy recorded an impressive 36-5 victory against Carrickfergus Grammar School at the Campsie playing fields. The hosts had taken a 12-0 lead by half time with tries from Stuart Ballantine, from the kick-off, and James Catterson. Ballantine added a conversion. The second half saw the home team dominate with tries from Josh McKinley, Jack Mitchell and Lloyd Kane. Ballantine kicked three conversions as well as a penalty. In response, Carrickfergus Grammar scored by taking advantage of some slack home defence to leave the final score reading 36-5. PORTORA RS 19 BANBRIDGE ACADEMY 28 Banbridge Academy travelled to Enniskillen to play Portora Royal School and came away with a hard earned 19-28 victory. The Banbridge team had opened up a 21-0 lead at the interval with tries from Sam McCracken, David Houston and Nathan McKinley. Daniel McElderry was successful with all three conversions. The home team mounted something of a comeback early in the second half when they scored three tries, two of which were converted. However, a fourth Banbridge try, scored and converted by McElderry, secured the 19-28 success. LURGAN COLLEGE 39 WELLINGTON COLLEGE 36 Lurgan College hosted Wellington College in a high scoring game in which they emerged as 39-36 winners. James Patterson scored a penalty in the second minute to give the Lurgan team a 3-0 lead but Wellington replied with an unconverted try four minutes later. Five minutes later Nick McCann touched down for a Lurgan try which Patterson converted to give his team a 10-5 lead. Another Wellington score was cancelled out by a James Laird touch down, converted by Patterson. The visitors kicked a penalty just before the interval to leave the Lurgan College team 17-15 ahead at the break. This was increased to 25-15, shortly after the restart, when first, Jamie Hunter touched down before Patterson added a penalty. Jordan McIlwaine then added to his impressive scoring record, and Curtis Doak also touched down. Two conversions from Patterson extended the advantage to 39-15 lead. Wellington finished with a flourish by running in three converted tries but it was a case of 'too little, too late' for the visitors as Lurgan held on to finish as 39-36 winners. FRIENDS' SCHOOL 13 LARNE GS 24 Larne Grammar School recorded their first win of the season when they travelled to play Friends' School and came away with a 13-24 win. Larne scored four tries, two of which were converted, in the course of the game. In reply, Friends' scored tries through Kyle Andrews and Arthur Wilson ,with James McGuicken adding a penalty. Despite losing the game, players such as Zac Finlay, Russell Dickson and James McGuicken played well for the Lisburn school. FOYLE COLLEGE 14 RS DUNGANNON 10 Foyle College got back to winning ways when they defeated Royal School Dungannon by 14-10. Foyle opened the scoring with a try from Robbie House, which Alex McDonnell converted, but an Archie Hanna score reduced the arrears to 7-5. Foyle added a second when Alex McDonnell took advantage of some slack RS Dungannon to run in and convert for a 14-5 lead. Dungannon's Stuart Moore scored late in the first half to take the score to 14-10, in favour of the Foyle College team, at the interval. Despite the best intentions of both teams to attack at every opportunity in the second half it was the defences that came out on top to leave Foyle as worthy 14-10 winners. DALRIADA SCHOOL 9 WALLACE HS 10 Dalriada School hosted a Wallace High School team that had recorded an excellent in their last outing against Campbell College. The confident Wallace High School players found themselves in a position of having to work hard before they were able to emerge from this game with a narrow 9-10 win. Timmy Emmerson gave Dalriada a 6-0 lead with two penalty kicks. Wallace reduced the arrears to 6-5 when they scored an unconverted try only to see Emmerson put his Dalriada team into a 9-5 lead with another well struck penalty. However, Wallace rallied to score another unconverted try and win the game by 10-9. BALLYMENA ACADEMY 6 COLERAINE AI 5 Following their midweek win against the visiting Australian School team, a game in which Jonathan McKeown and Marcus Rea shone, Ballymena Academy hosted Coleraine Academical Institution. The conditions at the Galgorm Road venue were perfect and so it was somewhat surprising that neither side seemed to be able to settle into any significant period of attacking pressure. Most of the game was contested in the middle third of the field and the few line breaks that were made often resulted in the attacking player becoming isolated. Ballymena's points came from the trusty boot of Rea, who confidently slotted two penalty attempts. As the second half progressed, Coleraine looked more likely to score the first try of the morning. Following an extended period deep in the Ballymena 22, the Coleraine pack generated several phases of quick ball to force their way over in the corner with Marc O'Neill awarded the touch down. The touchline conversion attempt was unsuccessful and the final whistle sounded with the score 6-5 to Ballymena Academy. BRA 3 SULLIVAN UPPER 48 Sullivan Upper travelled to Roughfort to face a Belfast Royal Academy, a side who welcomed back their representative players. Sullivan had seven 1st XV players watching on the sidelines, some through injury and others being rested, but they went into the break with a 3-22 lead before emerging as 3-48 winners. Tries came thick and fast with players such as Fergus Jemphrey, Harry Harper, Chris Jordan and Mark Adair among the scorers. Adair added a number of conversions as well as scoring a great individual try with a break out from his 22m area.