Old Christians RFC 27

Dunmanway RFC 10

With the group stages into the second round games we welcomed Dunmanway RFC to Rathcooney. This was to be a one of the biggest challenges to date . We showed some super rugby and played well as a team which proved important.

Dunmanway turned out in force and the players provided us with a great competitive game. Through discipline and effort our lads didn't give them room to play. We were quick of the mark when defending and prevented Dunmanway getting a foothold on the game. We played down the pitch first half and turned 15-0 at half time. Dunmanway came out strong in the second half with a two early tries and put our lads under pressure for long periods. To the credit of our lads they dug in and put some very important tackles , line breaks and closed out the game in fashioned with two hard earned tries.

This hard fought win came from the squad as a whole and all played their part.

Brian Barry x2, Emmanuel Longo, Oisin Crowley, Jack Punch with a conversion from Ronan Doherty.

The coaches and parents could not be prouder of the effort the boys put in but we have plenty more challenges to come so it's back to the training pitch next week as we prep for Bandon Away in two weeks