Dundalk 53 Boyne B 5
Dundalk’s U-17 got off to a great start against their counterparts from Boyne when Dylan Quigley received an off load from Stephen McGivern to score under the posts after only 2 minutes of play. Evin Quigley converted to leave the score 7-0. The 10 am kick off seemed to catch the Drogheda team out and within 15 minutes they found themselves trailing 17 – 0 when Dundalk’s captain Tadgh McElroy, scored a further two tries.
Dundalk eased up and this gave Boyne the chance to get one back in the 27th Dundalk scored a fourth try late in the half when Tadgh McElroy grabbed his third which was converted by Evin Quigley to leave it 24 – 5 at half time. The second half started slowly with neither team really focusing on the job in hand. Dundalk eventually got into gear with 20 minutes to go and went on a scoring blitz adding another 5 tries.
The first was scored by full back Cillian Quinn after the forwards had punched a hole in the Boyne cover. After some good rucking the ball was fed to the backs where Aaron Quinn at outhalf moved it on quickly where it found his brother Cillian who finished off in the corner. After some more good work from the forwards Evin “Paulie” Quigley made a dash for the line from the 20 only to be brought down meters short. However, when politely asked he popped the ball up for Stephen McGivern who crossed for Dundalk’s sixth try.
Not to be out done by his brother Cillian, Aaron Quinn crossed over for Dundalk’s seventh after some quick passing between forwards and backs left him with ten yards to cover. With less than five minutes to go Dundalk’s Barney McElroy scored two tries to bring the total to nine. His first try resulted from a ruck with the ball coming to out half Aaron Quinn who fed Barney McElroy who ran a good line which wrong footed the Boyne defence. A conversion by Stephen Arrowsmith brought the score to 53 – 5.
The result means Dundalk have won three of their first four games and are top of the North East League. Overall this was a good team performance with new man Ciaran McConnon making a good impact in the second row. Others to play well were Niall Malone, David Durnin, Ryan Meegan, Morgan McLoughlin and Alex Cahill.
Team: Dylan Quigley, Niall Malone, Stephen McGivern, Evin Quigley, Ciaran McConnon, Ryan Meegan, Morgan McLoughlin, Stephen Arrowsmith, Tadgh McElroy, Tom Gardiner, Oisin Duff, Aaron Quinn, Aaron McGuigan, Barney McElroy, Dan McWall, Alex Cahill, David Durnin, Cillian Quinn, Andrew Williams, Keith Dorian.
