Under 20: Indiscipline costs Ulster winning start.

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Ulster U20’s threw away a chance to open their defence of the Inter Provincial title with a win going down 17 – 18 to Munster U20’s at the Queen’s Arena yesterday evening.

Ulster: (5) 17TRY: Conor Kelly, Lewis McNamara, Matthew Fisher. CON: Andrew Magrath

Munster (8) 18TRY: Dave O’Mahoney, John Foley. CON: Dave O’Mahoney. PEN: Dave O’Mahoney (2) 

The youngster’s only have themselves to blame as they were on top for most of this match but a succession of first half penalties and a total of three yellow cards kept the visitors in the game.

Munster opened the scoring with 5th minute penalty by full back Dave O’Mahoney but for the next thirty minutes the home side dominated proceedings.

Captain Adam McBurney led the way with some typically robust drives and the centre paring of Kieran Joyce and Alex Kane combined well, with Kane looking particularly dangerous. Unfortunately a surfeit of penalties at the breakdown . . .

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