After last weeks lack lustre performance against Donegal II it was made clear to all the players that a much better performance would be required if they were to take the points from a very good Strabane II team. In the early stages of the match Armoy pressed the Strabane defence and pinned them inside […]
2nd XV win league title – again! Grosvenor 2nd XV won the Junior 3 league title last night (4 April) by defeating Donaghadee 27-6. Under inspirational coach Marty McCullough they suffered only one defeat in the entire league campaign conceding only 132 points in 16 matches but scoring 592 points. This is their fourth league […]
The much maligned Conference League arrived at Donaldson Park yesterday with the local side taking on Ballynahinch IIs. The Dee took the opportunity to field an experimental side with only seven of the normal starting line-up playing and both sides served up an extremely entertaining afternoon’s rugby with the home side running out victors by […]
2nd XV vs Queen’s (15 – 12) 2 XV League Dungannon performed better with the elements in the first half , Queen’s came back strongly but failed to close the gap as Gannon ran out 15-12 winners. Dungannon opened the scoring after three minutes when Plunkett McCallon burst through from outside the twenty-two to touch […]
2 XV League: The IIs showed twelve changes from last week and performed well as they ran in seven tries against Rainey in Magherafelt. Stuart Lester scored a hat trick with Richard Holmes and Paul Magee getting their names on the score sheet. John McGuckin scored a good individual try and Alan Cummings rounded off […]
All roads lead to Ravenhill this Easter. The 2nd XV rounded off a good season on Saturday when they beat Dungannon 3”s in the semi-final of the Crawford Cup. In a nervous semi-final they came out winners 8 – 16. Ballymoney took the lead after 10 minutes with Sturat Nevin converted try and then a […]