The School’s Cup got back on the road for another season with Larne Grammar hosting Cambridge House in the first of back to back First Round ties.
Larne Grammar made considerable strides towards qualifying for the second round with a 31 – 7 victory, scoring five tries in the process, though the teams meet again next weekend in Ballymena with the side with the best aggregate score going through.
The game started brightly enough, in strong sunshine, with Larne dominating territory and Connor Connolly broke from the back of a scrum to cross the line after seven minutes to give Larne a 5 – 0 lead. However, Cambridge House lived up to their pre match favourites tag with Tinus Smit forcing his way over the line four minutes later. The conversion was good, taking the score to Larne 5 Cambridge 7.
After this promising start, the game degenerated into a scrappy affair with both sides making lots of mistakes, the main feature being . . .
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