With the league already won there was a more relaxed atmosphere at Carrickfergus on Tuesday night when the IV’s completed their season with a comfortable 43-7 win over Carrick III. Most of the damage was done in the opening half with skipper, Gareth Lucas touching down after collecting the bouncing ball from the kick off. […]
Playing against a significant slope and in windy conditions Valley expected that the huge Carrick packs tactics, with several Ulster U19 players, would be to try and wear their smaller forwards down with aggressive phases of “pick and go”. However Valley were confident that with their better backs, if they could achieve parity at the […]
Carrickfergus U19s sponsored by IBS, won their Plate final against Clogher Valley on Saturday after making one of the best come backs by a Carrick side in years. The game was played at the Mid-Ulster arena in Cookstown, in front of over one hundred enthusiastic supporters but they did not expect to see their team […]
In this, Carrick’s penultimate game of the season it was too little, too late to redeem a two point deficit against their Co Cavan opponents. The game played at a bright & sunny Rifle Park Banbridge was the league playoff decider with Virginia taking the honours in what was always going to be a closely […]
The Carrick age group sides continue to do the Club proud, with Under 19s winning their Plate semi-final on Saturday 7 April, the impressive Under 15s going through to their Cup final- they were already in the League final- and the Under 13s moving into the Bowl final. On Saturday morning, the Under 15s beat […]