Championship 3: Civil Service 3 Letterkenny 35

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John McMurtry

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With no Premiership matches at the weekend we managed to catch up with games across all three of the Championship leagues.

Bob Given Photography caught up with Saturday’s match at Stormont.

Letterkenny travelled to Dundonald, to play Civil Service on Saturday afternoon in a Ulster Championship Division 3 League Game.

Much of the 1st half was spent by both teams sounding each other out and resulted in 40 minutes of defense orientated play.

Civil Service try to break the Letterkenny defence.

Civil Service took the lead after 7 minutes with a long range penalty by .

Letterkenny responded on 21 minutes when squeezed in in the corner for a try. landed the difficult conversion from the touchline to leave the score 3 – 7.

There was no other scoring giving Letterkenny a 3 – 7 lead at the break.

If the 1st half was a relatively dour affair, then Letterkenny’s 2nd half performance was a revelation. They began to dominate set and loose play and starved Civil Service, who rarely got out of their own half.

Letterkenny on a break against Service

A brace of tries from Letterkenny’s on the 48th and 60th minutes, one from McBride on the 62nd and a fourth on the 68th minute, from , did not flatter the away team.

McBride and shared 4 successful conversions, 2 each, to give Letterkenny a comprehensive victory and maximum league points.

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CHAMPIONSHIP 3 WEEK 3 RESULTS

SAT 18 SEPNewry27–7UU Coleraine
SAT 18 SEP Civil Service NI3–35Letterkenny
SAT 18 SEP Holywood10–17Monaghan
SAT 18 SEP BHS FP21–15PSNI
SAT 18 SEP Cavan 15–29Virginia

CHAMPIONSHIP 3 STANDINGS AFTER WEEK 3

TEAMPWDPDBPPTS
Virginia33071315
Monaghan33069214
Newry33041012
Letterkenny32062311
UU Coleraine210-115
Cavan210-1304
Strabane210-1804
B.H.S FP310-3904
P.S.N.I300-2522
Holywood300-3822
Civil Service300-10900

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