Northern Bank Schools Cup: Friends 10 Ballymena 11

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Friends School’s cup run ended in heartbreak in this quarter-final replay against Ballymena Academy. Leading 10 – 6 with time running out Friends were denied a trip to Ravenhill with a dramatic try from Ballymena’s No 8 Andrew with the final play of the match. Patterson missed the conversion from out wide but the kick was academic as the referee blew for the end of the match.

Ballymena now face Methody at Ravenhill in the Northern Bank Schools Cup semi-final match on Thursday afternoon, KO 2:30pm.

The first half was a tense affair as both teams struggled for consistency on a heavy pitch. Ballymena eventually got on top and roared on by a large crowd came close on several occasions with Simpson and Morrison featuring strongly only to be denied by handling errors and the strong Friends defence.

The Ballymena backs and forwards ran the ball more frequently than they had in their earlier meeting but the Friends front five put in a huge amount of work to deny them a try scoring chance . . .

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