The Front Row Union Sport - Schools: Wallace High 26 St Gerards 12

Schools: Wallace High 26 St Gerards 12

Sep 1, 2019

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Wallace High ran out winners by 26 points to 12 against St Gerard’s School Bray on Saturday morning in Lisburn.

It was a typical early season match with both sides a little scrappy and both showing a touch of early season white line fever.

St Gerards were first to score, about 15 minutes in, when their industrious right wing crossed out wide for a converted try to give the visitors a seven point lead.

Scott Wilson breaks for the line for Wallace High

Wallace got to grips with the game thereafter but it took them until the closing minutes of the first half to get on the scoreboard with more than a few chances being coughed up.

Finn Rankin was the first to cross, for an unconverted try, before prop Scott Wilson broke clear through the centre to finish up under the posts. Lewis Nelmes converted to give the high school a 12 – 7 lead at the break.

Ben Carson had an influential game and was among the scorers.

The influential Ben Carson crossed, and converted, for Wallace’s third, minutes into the second half and the centre had a second disallowed with the referee unsighted.

St Gerard’s were under pressure for most of the second half but they managed to cross out wide in one of their few excursions into the Wallace half to take the score to 19 – 12.