Portlaoise Rugby Club News

Portlaoise Rugby Club :

This Weekend Results :

Portlaoise 1^st’s             24    Wicklow 1^st’s     22

Portlaoise 2^nd’s             24    Wicklow 2^nd’s    19

Portlaoise 3^rd’s             49    Edenderry 3^rd’s   3

Portlaoise  U19             0     Gorey U19         w/o

Portlaoise  U17             0     Gorey U17         34

Portlaoise U13             34    Gorey U13           0

League table for Leinster League – Division 1B

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Bonus Points	Deductions	Points
1	Garda	10	9	0	1	347	118	229	8	0	46
2	Enniscorthy	10	7	3	0	263	139	124	8	0	36
3	Monkstown	10	6	3	1	224	159	65	7	0	33
4	Portlaoise	10	7	3	0	178	170	8	3	0	31
5	Tullow	9	6	3	0	170	194	-24	1	0	25
6	Portarlington	10	3	7	0	167	207	-40	7	0	19
7	Wicklow	10	3	7	0	176	272	-96	4	0	16
8	New Ross	9	2	7	0	103	163	-60	2	0	10
9	West Offaly Lions	10	0	10	0	94	300	-206	2	0	2

League table for Leinster Seconds League – Division 1B

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Tries For	Tries Against	Try Diff	Bonus Points	Deductions	Points
1	Portlaoise	9	8	1	0	293	93	200	42	13	29	7	0	39
2	Monkstown	8	5	3	0	216	107	109	29	10	19	8	0	28
3	Tullow	8	5	3	0	166	108	58	22	13	9	4	0	24
4	Enniscorthy	6	4	2	0	140	117	23	21	15	6	2	0	18
5	Portarlington	9	4	5	0	141	214	-73	12	30	-18	1	0	17
6	Wicklow	9	3	6	0	146	180	-34	18	21	-3	3	0	15
7	New Ross	7	2	5	0	62	175	-113	8	24	-16	1	0	9
8	Garda	8	1	7	0	49	219	-170	7	33	-26	1	0	5

League table for South Leinster Provincial J3 League

Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points For	Points Against	Points Diff	Tries For	Tries Against	Try Diff	Bonus Points	Deductions	Points
1	Portlaoise	6	5	1	0	183	51	132	30	7	23	4	0	24
2	Tullamore	6	4	2	0	106	83	23	14	14	0	5	0	21
3	Birr	6	4	1	1	115	84	31	16	8	8	2	0	20
4	Enniscorthy	5	3	2	0	70	63	7	8	8	0	3	0	15
5	Co. Carlow	6	3	3	0	60	113	-53	6	15	-9	0	-4	8
6	Athy	7	1	5	1	109	164	-55	12	23	-11	3	-4	5
7	Edenderry	6	0	6	0	44	129	-85	7	18	-11	0	-4	-4

Women’s All Ireland League Tables

Pos Team Pl W D L F A Diff TB LB Pts 1 Shannon 10 9 0 1 243 81 162 4 1 42 2 Tralee 8 8 0 0 321 45 276 6 0 39 3 Nenagh Ormond 9 6 0 3 138 151 -13 2 2 29 4 Portlaoise RFC 9 5 0 4 88 113 -25 0 2 21 5 Youghal 8 4 0 4 102 73 29 1 2 19 6 Young Munster 7 4 0 3 74 86 -12 1 1 18 7 Galbally 6 2 0 4 62 89 -27 0 3 13 8 Ballincollig RFC 5 2 0 3 47 76 -29 1 1 10 9 Thurles 8 2 0 6 63 103 -40 1 3 10 10 Tuam RFC 7 1 0 6 27 211 -184 0 0 4 11 Clanwilliam 9 0 0 9 5 142 -137 0 1 -7

This Weeks Matches

Sunday 23^rd January:

Portlaoise Senior 1^st team are playing away against  Enniscorthy 1^st in the  Leinster league. Match starts at 14:30 Also Portlaoise Senior 2^nd team will be playing against Enniscorthy 2^nd’s in Enniscorthy at 13:00.

Portlaoise Senior 3^rd team are at home to old rivals Tullamore 3^rd ‘s in Togher. This match is scheduled to start at 14:30

Portlaoise U21’s are playing away to CYM U21’s in the Gale cup pool at 14:30  on Sunday.

Saturday 22^nd January:

Portlaoise Mini’s are at home in Togher playing against Athy.

Match report on 3^rd s game   Sunday 16^th January.

Portlaoise 3^rd v  Edenderry 3^rd in  Portlaoise.

Team : 15 J.Scully, 14 P.Kavanagh, 13 N.Fitzpatrick, 12 B.Hennessy, 11 C.O’Connor, 10 M.McDonald, 9 K.Donovan, 8 S.Cooper, 7 D.Bigley, 6 K.Griffen, 5 D.Broomfield, 4 C.Peters, 3 G.Hall, 2 G.Rowe, 1 J.Dowling, Subs: E.Cuddy, B.Lynch, P.Hearns, C.Keane, S.Miller, K.Hughes, T.Lynch, C.McGuire.

Portlaoise 3^rd’s played their second match for 2011 in the South Leinster Provincial J3 League at Togher on Sunday afternoon. It was a glorious sunny afternoon perfect for an afternoon rugby game.  From the starting whistle Portlaoise forwards attacked the Edenderry team which resulted in Edenderry giving away a penalty inside the first three minutes. Mossie McDonald duly stood up and converted the penalty to open the scoring for Portlaoise. From the Edenderry kick off, Portlaoise gathered the ball and stormed up the field, maintaining possession through phases of play and resulting in Garry Rowe scoring a try. Again Edenderry kicked off, Portlaoise collected and set about pressurising the Edenderry opposition. Portlaoise pack continued to keep possession through phases of play until they spread it out wide for Cillian O’Connor on the wing to score a try in the corner. Fifteen minutes later Portlaoise were again over the try line with prop John Dowling touching down under the posts after superb work by the pack. Mossie McDonald  duly converted. Then Portlaoise upped the pace and were rewarded with three more tries scored by Stuart Cooper and John Scully (2). Mossie McDonald added a conversion. The half time the score was Portlaoise 37 – Edenderry 0.

The second half began with Portlaoise maintaining their supremacy enjoyed in the first half. Within ten minutes of the start of the second half, Portlaoise‘s Paul Kavanagh had scored a try to bring the  score line to 42 – 0. Shortly thereafter Edenderry were awarded a penalty for an infringement in a ruck and their out-half slotted the ball over to open their score.  Portlaoise stuck to their task and were rewarded with two more tries , scored by John Dowling and John Scully who also converted the final try to bring the final score to  Portlaoise 49  Edenderry  3.

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