Dundalk thirds travelled to Ashbourne on Friday night.

Dundalk kicked the game off and Ashbourne attacked early, testing Dundalk’s defence but after

holding out for 5 minutes they eventually scored after creating an overlap and raced down the

sideline. They scored their second try on the ten minute mark after mauling over the Dundalk line.

Dundalk didn’t give up though and after a few minutes of the forwards battling up the pitch and

the backs questioning their defence, a loop move between Chris Mcgeady and Mike Doyle released

Gerard Lawless down the wing, he was tap tackled but not held and scored a try! The referee

deemed it a double movement and disallowed it!

For the next 30 minutes the two teams battled hard with Dundalk coming out top in the scrums!

Our backs continued asking questions of their defence with great play between Doyle and Mcgeady

releasing Grattan O’Hagan, Lawless and McGuinness but Ashbourne’s defence held out.

Dundalk started the second half a lot better with great attacking by French student Vincent, who

lead the forwards and Dundalk once more attacked the Ashbourne line but to no avail!

With big hits being put in by both sides, the casualties started to mount with McGeady coming off,

followed shortly afterwards by Brian Igoe.

As Dundalk rearranged their team with players having to play out of position, Ashbourne exploited

this and scored a number of tries.

The Dundalk players never gave up with some good crash balls from forwards like Steven Smyth,

Andrew Holmes and Brian Crosbie and backs like Doyle and O’Hagan, Dundalk still couldn’t find their

way past a good Ashbourne defence and ended the game without any points on the board.

Final score Ashbourne 32, Dundalk 0.

Dundalk travel to Navan this Friday for another round of Friday Night Lights!