The thaw set in on Wednesday and grounds men across Ulster inspected the pitches. As the hours progressed the signals came in that games where going ahead. Not all unfortunately but lots and we readied ourselves for the battles to come. A quick look at the fixtures highlighting an excellent game to cover – Wellington […]
Schools will be hoping for a break in the current weather conditions if there is to be any chance of playing games on Saturday 11th December. The big game of the day is the encounter at the Carolan Road venue featuring Wellington College and Lurgan College in the 1st Round of the Northern Bank Ulster […]
Dromore High School did manage to escape on tour (the only rugby team from Ulster Rugby to do so) prior to the onset of the inclement weather with their U15 and U16 teams going on a joint rugby/hockey tour to Holland. The U16 & U15 rugby squads from Dromore High School embarked on their second […]
It is hoped there will be a good list of scheduled fixtures of games played on Saturday 4th December but these fixtures will all be subject to the vagaries of the prevailing weather conditions. There will also be a few fixtures re-arranged due to some schools hosting entrance test examinations. With most school teams losing […]
With some schools’ hosting entrance tests on Saturday 27th November there were a number of fixtures rescheduled to take place earlier in the week. Due to the adverse weather conditions prevailing on Saturday 27th November, none of the remaining scheduled fixtures took place. Banbridge Academy hosted a Portadown College team that was full of confidence […]
From Thursday it was clear not every game was going ahead. But, on Saturday morning the sun rose and grounds men from across Ulster tested the pitches to find that while snow was lying, the ground ewas not frozen. For a a healthy number of fixtures it was – GAME ON. We travelled to Bangor […]
Bright sunshine pervaded the proceedings at Larne Grammar in an exciting local derby. Two excellent rugby schools battled it out with Larne fairly comfortably winning. Both sides scored. A bad day at the office for Carrick who got frustrated because they can and will do better. Larne ran out the winners by a few tries. […]
Match Reports And Scores 1st XV v Seapoint – Game Postponed 2nd XV – Belfast Harlequins 48 v 5 Ards 3rd XV – Ards 5 v 36 Cooke CLICK HERE to enjoy 41 picture slideshow from Ards v Cooke Headline Pictures Photo 1 Johnny Garret Photo 2 Graham Martin Photo 3 Roger Scott 4th XV […]
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There were a number of midweek fixtures played prior to a full list of schools’ fixtures on Saturday 20th November. Cambridge House finally got a win, after a number of close defeats, when they played Portadown College. The Cambridge House team had been playing well without getting the reward they felt they deserved. Cambridge House […]