Rainey Old Boys will play in their first ever First Trust Senior Cup Final next month after fighting back to overcome Malone 14-21 at Gibson Park. Indeed, prior to this season, the Magherafelt side had failed to even make the quarter final stages. But this success, coupled with their five wins from five in All […]
Buccaneers played with the strong breeze that was blowing straight down the Eaton Park pitch and dominated first half territory. A combination of mistakes by the visiotrs and a dermined defensive effort by the home side kept the half time score down to 10-0. When Niall Martin kicked two penalties, the first win of the […]
Armagh Seconds come out on top at Ballymena Armagh seconds travelled to Ballymena in good form after beating Malone seconds the previous week. There were several changes to the side as Lewis Morton came onto the wing, Andrew Winder played at 9 and Jason McMahon joined the front row at tight head with Brian McConnell […]
Two sparkling tries from centre Tom Hughes and a fine individual effort from Scott Gibson were the highlights of this eight try victory by Ballymena over Instonians in the Ulster Senior Cup. The remaining tries were scored by andrew Warwick, Alan Smyth, Timothy Small, David Whann and John Andrew. Scott Gibson and Niall Martin shared […]
A beautiful Autumn day and what better way to spend it than playing tag rugby and that’s just what the Bears did down at the Newforge Taggers home ground in Belfast on Sunday. A strong contingent of Bears travelled, joining in to begin with on the Taggers warm up. New and old friends greeted the […]
Ballymena, leading by 19 points to 11, survived late Quins’ pressure to win this Ulster League game at Eaton Park,outscoring their opponents by three rtries to one. The tries came from Matthew Rea, John Andrew and Connor Smyth, with Scott Gibson adding two conversions. In the quarter final of the uLster Senior Cup Ballymena have […]
Malone had inflicted a fairly heavy defeat on Ballymena in the first UCL game of the season at Gibson Park, but there was some optimism that could be reversed at Eaton Park. Such optimism proved to be totally unfounded, as Malone outplayed the home side, scoring nine tries, amassing sixty points to Ballymena’s three. The […]