The girl’s Interprovincials finished last weekend with Munster claiming the U18 Trophy after a convincing win against Ulster at Barnhall RFC.
Leinster U18 took third place with an equally convincing win against Connacht at the same venue.
Results
| Ulster U18 | 07 – 36 | Munster U18 | Final |
| Leinster U18 | 38 – 18 | Connacht U18 | 3rd Place |
The results give the following final standings.
Champions – Munster U18
2nd Place – Ulster U18
3rd Place – Leinster U18
4th Place – Connacht U18
As with the women, we’ve kept the league table going for the U18’s as a check for our scorers totals and the table below is for information only. It does reflect the exceptional match play by Munster U18’s who kept their powder dry during the round robin stages to explode spectacularly in the play offs with two exceptional wins.
| TEAM | P | W | PD | BP | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leinster U18 | 5 | 4 | 80 | 3 | 19 |
| Ulster U18 | 5 | 3 | (33) | 2 | 14 |
| Munster U18 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 10 |
| Connacht U18 | 5 | 1 | (61) | 2 | 6 |
Women Interprovincial Scorers
To the best of our knowledge, all the individual scorers are shown below in the sortable and filterable table. If you want to look at individual provinces just type the first three letters of the province in the search box.
Leinster U18’s can take some comfort, following their semi final defeat to Munster, that two of their players top the scorers table.
Ava Jenkins was queen of the kickers with 23 points from 10 conversions and one penalty
and Ciara Faulkner was the leading try scorer with four tries.
Coverage
You can view the report and gallery for the final between Ulster U18 and Munster U18 here.
Pictures from the 3rd Place Leinster Connacht playoff by Bob Given Photography are below.