Category: Academy RFC
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Championship 2: Academy 18 Randalstown 20
We caught up with our Championship 2 featured team, Academy, for a top of the table clash against current leaders Randalstown at roughfort on Saturday afternoon. In atrocious conditions both teams produced some nice rugby and it was the visitors who opened the scoring when No 11, Paul McLean went over in the corner for…
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Championship 2: Academy 38 Letterkenny 10
I caught up with the Championship 2 match between Academy and Letterkenny at Roughfort on Saturday afternoon. With my previous fixture running over and a bit of traffic between the two venues I didn’t arrive at Roughfort until the end of the first half. Academy were leading 5 – 3 at my arrival, Stuart Martin…
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Provincial Regional East: Academy II 70 Malone III 0
Our second game at Roughfort on Saturday was the Provincial Regional East match between Academy 2nd XV and Malone 3rd XV. Having covered a 10 – 0 win by Owls in the hockey earlier I’m afraid this one was equally one sided as Academy ran in 10 tries against an out of sorts Malone. Harry…
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Championship 2: Academy 39 Donaghadee 5
I caught up with Academy and Donaghadee at Roughfort on Saturday afternoon in an Ulster Rugby Championship 2 match. I had covered these two teams at the start of the season in a Junior Shield match where Academy had run out comfortable winners. This game was a much stiffer challenge for the home team as…
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Junior Friendly: Cooke II 26 Academy II 31
Our trip to Shaw’s Bridge on Saturday gave us the chance to catch up with another of our featured clubs as Academy 2nd XV made the trip to play Cooke 2nd XV in a junior friendly match. It was another high scoring game with 9 tries though this one evenly contested. Cooke took an early…
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Junior Shield: Academy 66 Donaghadee 0
Academy kicked of their season with a big win in the Junior Shield Group 3 match against Donaghadee at Roughfort on Friday night. With the nights starting to draw in I only covered the first half of this game but there was plenty of action as Academy racked up a 26 – 0 lead in…
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Junior Friendly: Academy 5 Grosvenor 19
I caught up with the junior friendly at Roughfort between several Academy sides and Grosvenor on Friday evening. The match was played over three 25 minute periods with Academy fielding a different side for each period as they gave their firsts, seconds and thirds squads an early season hit out. Grosvenor played the same tem…