Portlaoise Rugby Club News
This Weekend Results :
Portlaoise 1st’s 23 Monkstown 1st’s 16
Portlaoise 2nd’s 22 Monkstown 2nd’s 05
Portlaoise 4th’s 05 Parkmore 4th’s 24
This Weeks Matches
Sunday 6th February:
Portlaoise 3rd’s team are playing at home against Birr in a vital match in their Leinster league. Match starts at 15:00.
Saturday 5th February:
Portlaoise 4th’s are playing away to Monkstown in Dublin. Match starts at 12:00 noon.
Portlaoise Mini’s are at home this Saturday playing against Nass.
Match report on 4th s game Sunday 30th January.
Portlaoise 4th v Parkmore 4th in Portlaoise.
Team : M.Dowling, E.Carty, K.O’Connor, K.Hughes, S.Brew, S.Conroy, N.McCormack, C.Maher, W.Phelan, S.Delaney, F.Kavanagh, D.Maher, O.Cuddy, P.McEvoy, P.Hearns, A.Dowling, E.Hearns, A.Heffernan, R.Booth, M.Boyd.
Portlaoise 4th’s joined the Leinster J4 League Section C – Division 1 recently replacing Millmount and fulfilling the fixtures scheduled for the rest of the league. Their first game was on Saturday at Togher against a Parkmore team. From the start it was a tough encounter with both sets of forwards attempting to gain advantage. The match flowed from side to side with both teams defences standing firm from the opposition pressure and the score board remained at zero for the first 20 minutes. Then Parkmore broke through the Portlaoise defence took full advantage to cross the line for a try. Parkmore added the conversion. Portlaoise restarted and applied pressure from the off but Parkmore defence stood firm. Then Parkmore capitalised on a defensive error by Portlaoise to score a try under the posts. This they converted.
The half time the score was Portlaoise 0 – Parkmore 14.
The second half began with a flourish. Portlaoise dominated from the start and were rewarded with a try inside the first 5 minutes of the second half. This was unconverted to have the score at Portlaoise 5 – Parkmore 14. The game flowed from side to side but it was Parkmore’s superiority which prevailed and they added a further converted try and a penalty to bring the final score to Portlaoise 5 – Parkmore 24.
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