Regent House hosted a Larne Grammar School team that had come through a Danske Bank Ulster Schools ’Cup Round 1 game against Cambridge House.
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Despite the experience of winning that game there was little the Larne Grammar School could do to prevent Regent House from winning this Round 2 game by 42-0. Regent House dominated all the early play but unforced errors and ferocious Larne defence, in which Ethan Kerr was outstanding, kept the game scoreless for a large part of the first half. That was until Rhys Thompson, the Regent House right wing, took advantage of a good interchange of play involving both forwards and backs to score a try in the corner. The conversion attempt was unsuccessful but the Regent House team had a 5-0 lead. On the stroke of half time Peter Eakin, The Regent House outhalf, added another try but the relatively simple conversion was missed to leave the Regent House team in a 10-0 lead at half time.
Two minutes after the restart the Regent House loose head prop, Matthew Kane, barged his way over for a try. The same player repeated this feat when he scored again, this time from a driving lineout, five minutes later. Neither conversion attempot was successful but the Regent House team now had a 20-0 lead.
On forty-eight minutes, after further pressure by the home side, Regent House Vice-Captain and No 8, Philip Patton, crashed over for the fifth Regent try of the game to extend the lead to 25-0. From the restart Philip fielded the ball and made an impressive fifty metre run. The ball was recycled quickly and spread out the Regent House backline where full back, Curtis McCartney, finished off a sweeping move in the right hand corner. Again the conversion was missed but the Regent House team now had a 30-0 lead. A few minutes later, the Regent House centre, Aaron Culbert, finished off a blindside move to score in the corner with Curtis McCartney adding the conversion to put his team into a 37-0 lead. Close to the full time whistle the Regent House left wing, Andy Currie, scored an unconverted try to see the final score reading 42-0 in favour of the Regent House team at the end of this Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup Round 2 encounter.
