It certainly wasn’t a ‘rainy’ day for Banbridge in Magherafelt as the 1st XV returned home with four points following a 15 – 3 win in the AIL. Bann finished the game with 14 men but had enough in reserve to claim the points. With Cashel remaining unbeaten at the top there are only 2 […]
Northern Bank Ulster Schools’ Round Up Saturday 3rd December 2011. The Rainey Endowed School 1st and 2nd xv’s have returned recently from a successful tour, playing games in Dublin and Manchester. On Wednesday 23rd November the ‘P Keenan Road Surfacing’ sponsored Rainey Endowed School Senior Rugby squads left on their annual rugby tour. They left […]
What a game. The ball retention by both sides and consequently the defensive efforts, were immense. But both sides were capable of up setting the other both defensively and in attack with lots of scores. Strategically both were excellent but BRA pipped it in the end and with an ecstatic roar from the large assembled […]
INSTONIANS II 28 – 27 RAINEY II 2nds League 12th November 2011 Scorers: Cassidy(1*Try), McGuckin(1*Try), Devlin(2*Try), Dillon(1*Pen, 2*Conv) Photos Having done well to get back in the game, Rainey OB II conceded the silliest of late penalties to go down 28-27 to Instonians II at Shaw’s Bridge. They should be beating themselves up at losing […]
Queen’s 3XV travelled to Roughfort for what turned out to be a closely contested game against the Academys 2nd team. The match started at high tempo with both sides making some strong runs and crunching tackles. Early on the contrasting styles of play became obvious, the home side had the upper hand in the set […]
Despite the onset of a well-deserved half term break in the schools there was still a number of games played on Saturday 29th October. Ballymena Academy hosted Down High School. The Down High School team made the Ballymena team, without Matthew Rea who was at the Ireland U19 camp in Dublin; work hard for their […]
Newry 1st XV 10 Randalstown 1st XV 35 Randalstown 1sts and 2nds travelled down to face their Newry counterparts on Saturday and both came away with convincing wins. CLICK HERE FOR I XV PICTURES The firsts recorded a 35 – 10 victory under sometimes difficult circumstances with the game becoming almost farcical at times under […]