The Front Row Union Sport - Club Academy: Queen’s University 19 Instonians 12

Club Academy: Queen’s University 19 Instonians 12

Sep 2, 2021

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This was a cracking game in the dusk at Roughfort as Queen’s won their second match at the Academy Festival at Academy Rugby Club on Wednesday night. Unfortunately, the light started to go during this one so we only got coverage of the first two games.

Instonians are probably wondering how they turned round at half time trailing 12 – 7 after opening the scoring, through a Stuart Cameron try and Marco Manso conversion, and dominating almost every other aspect of the first half.

Instonians try scorers Jack Truesdale and Stuart Cameron

Queen’s only made two excursions outside of their own 22 in the first half and they scored twice with Ross Fallows breaking down the left for the first and James Lusty down the right for the second. Tom Martin converted the second to give Queens a 12 – 7 lead at the break.

Queen’s scorers Lusty, Fallows and Martin.

The second half was a much more even affair. Jack Truesdale battled over in the corner for the equalising score a few minutes into the second half but a second try from Fallows, converted by Martin reestablished Queen’s lead with over 5 minutes remaining. Both sides threw everything into it in the final minutes but Queen’s held on to claim the win and end the tournament with two wins from two.

In the final game of the evening, which was too dark for photography, Instonians beat Academy 12 – 5 for a second place finish.