The Front Row Union Sport - Provincial East: CIYMS II 18 Academy II 7

Provincial East: CIYMS II 18 Academy II 7

Mar 11, 2024

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On Saturday I caught up with two of our featured teams CIYMS and Academy 2nd XV’s in a Provincial East clash at Belmont.

The game started a hot one, with Academy forming a structured attack. In the 15th minute, prop Lee Russell crashed over, with out-half Tom Davis calmly slotting the conversion to give the visitors a 0 – 7 lead.

Academy’s Lee Russell opened the scoring against CI.

The game was quite even until, on the stroke of halftime, CI out-half Adam Mitchell spotted a small gap in the defense and dotted down for a try under the posts, making it easy for kick Michael Lawton to convert to take the score to 7 – 7 at the break.