Category: Club Rugby
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Premier Women: Malone 80 Dungannon 7
On Sunday afternoon Dungannon travelled to Gibson Park, east Belfast to play Malone in a Women’s Premiership League fixture. Because of injuries Dungannon fielded a young, relatively inexperienced side, against a Malone side, unbeaten in the league. Running from deep, Jill Stevens opened the scoring for Malone after 3 minutes. Peta McAllister drove over, from…
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Women AIL: Cooke 14 Ballincollig 24
I caught up with the Women’s AIL match between Cooke and Ballincollig late on Saturday afternoon at Shaw’s Bridge. It was a bit of a scrappy match initially but Ballincollig enjoyed a golden spell midway through the first half when Michelle O’Driscoll burst through the Cooke defence to open the scoring 13 minutes in. Allison…
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AIL1B: Queens 20 Old Wesley 38
On Saturday afternoon the newly re-laid Queens Arena was the venue for the AIL1B clash between Queens and Dublin side, Old Wesley. Defences dominated the 1st quarter. Both sides created opportunities but couldn’t finish them off. Wesley opened the scoring from a 19th minute, Ian Cassidy penalty goal but Queens replied within 2 minutes when James Humphreys…
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Championship 1: CIYMS 21 Grosvenor 27
I caught up with the Championship 1 clash between CIYMs and Grosvenor on Saturday afternoon at Belmont, a match with plenty at stake between these local rivals. Grosvenor started the game full of intent and they were 5 – 0 up after three minutes thanks to a cross field kick and touch down by Luke…
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AIL 2B: Belfast Harlequins 30 Malahide 27
Belfast Harlequins welcomed Malahide to Deramore Park on Saturday afternoon for their opening match in this season’s AIL 2B league campaign. This opening match saw both teams hyped up from the start. It didn’t take long for the home team to earn a penalty in front of Malahide’s post which was dispatched by No 10,…
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Premier Women: Belfast Harlequins 5 Ballynahinch 39
I nipped over from The Dub to Deramore Park on Sunday for my seventh game of the weekend which featured Belfast Harlequins against Ballynahinch in a Ulster women’s Premiership match. I must say this was one of my favourites of the weekend thanks largely to Hinch’s Paige Smyth who exploded into action with a quick…
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Women Championship: Queen’s University II 14 Clogher Valley 31
I caught up with the first half of the Ulster Women’s Championship 2 match between Queen’s University 2nds XV and Clogher Valley at the Dub on Sunday afternoon. This was the first time we’ve caught up with Clogher Valley Women and they put in a disciplined display against an eager Queen’s side and it was…
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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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Provincial Premier: City of Armagh III 5 Belfast Harlequins II 19
My second game at City of Armagh rugby Club on Saturday with the Provincial Premier D1 match between Armagh 3rd XV and Belfast Harlequins 2nd XV. I arrived over for the second half with the score at 5 – 7 in Quins favour. Armagh’s points came form a William Coleman try, Quins responding through a…