Ulster welcomed Eagle Impact Rugby Academy on Friday. The girls played at Queen’s Sports while the boys played at Newforge.
I caught up with the games at Queen’s with the U18 Girls the closing match on the old 1st XV pitch at The Dub, the game played over two 35 minute halves.
It was a fairly tight first half. The Eagles opened the scoring with a penalty from Annie Henrich after three minutes and they extended their lead at the half way point with a try from their impressive No 8 Charlotte Dauser, converted by Henrich to take the score to 0 – 10.
Ulster had a sustained period of pressure in the Americans 22 but they were held up over the line on four occasions and the teams changed ends with Ulster still chasing that ten point deficit.
Early pressure from Ulster in the second half saw Tara O’Neill finish off an interception to take the score to 5 – 10 but the Eagles replied almost immediately with a try and conversion from the mercurial Heinrich pushed the score out to 5 – 17 in their favour.
The visitors dominated the final fifteen minutes. A second blistering run from Dauser was finished off by Heinrich to take it out to 5 – 22 and as Ulster looked for a response the visitors ran in two more tries with Abygail Lambert and Caroline “Cookie” Cook both crossing in the closing minutes. Heinrich converted both to take the final score to Ulster U18 5 EIRA U18 36
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