RUGBY: Inst crash out to Regent House

THERE was disappointment for Coleraine Inst in this year's Northern Bank Schools Cup as they were beaten 23-11 by Regent House on Saturday.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Feb 2010, 15:56 BST
Updated 10th Feb 2010, 08:21 BST

Twenty minutes into the game Regent made the breakthrough when their effervescent captain, Alistair Lockhart, touched down for the opening try. The conversion was missed but it was the Regent who had a 5-0 lead.

Coleraine responded positively to the setback and took play deep into Regent territory. Eventually, the Coleraine team were rewarded for their endeavours when Karl McKnight and Paddy Farrell combined to send Michael Brown over for an unconverted try to take the score to 5-5.

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On the stroke of half time Regent House restore their lead when they score a try through their left winger, Jonny Carmichael. This try was unconverted but the Newtownards side had a 10-5 interval lead.

Early in the second half the Regent team increased this lead to 13-5 with a Neil Armstrong penalty.

Ritchie McMaster had the opportunity to reduce the arrears shortly after this setback but he was just wide with a penalty attempt and Michael Shiels and Alex Gourley had caused disarray in the Regent defence.

However, he did make amends after 14 minutes of the second half when he converted a penalty following a good run from Nathan Rankin. This took the score to 13-8. Ritchie repeated this feat with a penalty three minutes later after Regent had infringed at a ruck in front of their posts. This took the score to 13-11 and the Coleraine AI team was back in the game.

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However, Regent took possession into Coleraine AI territory. The Regent pack was gaining the upper hand and they got reward for their hard work when their mobile second row forward, Matthew Wallace, scored a try with just ten minutes remaining. Neil Armstrong converted this try to see his team take a 20-11 lead.

The final score of this absorbing game came when Neil Armstrong converted another penalty to leave the Regent Housebteam as deserved 23-11 winners.

Paddy Farrell, Ritchie McMaster, Karl McKnight and Michael Shiels all played well for the home team while Alistair Lockhart, Ryan Irvine and Nicky Mawhinney featured strongly for the Regent House team.

Inst will now play Omagh Academy in the quarter final of the Northern Bank Schools' Subsidiary Shield

on Saturday 20 February.

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