Loughrea RFC 12 Creggs RFC 27

Creggs Rugby beat Loughrea RFC in the first rounf of the Connacht Under-14 Cup in Loughrea last Sunday afternoon on a scoreline of 27-12.

Creggs began the game very well with Adam Downey, Jack Hanley, John McDonnell and Roddie McGuinness very prominent carrying ball early on and Creggs had the much better of territory before Thomas O Brien scored their first try, Tries followed from Mark Purcell, Tom Farrell, Jack Keegan and Leigh Doyle and a conversion from Mark Purcell left the half time score 27-0.

In the second half Loughrea were much more competitive and only for some great tackling by Aaron Hannon, Aodha Hession, Jack McGahon and Kevin Brennan Loughrea could have scored earlier in the second half and made a good game of it. they did however score Two late tries from their impressive centre Eoin Clarke and Full back Luke Healy, leaving the final score 27-12 to Creggs.

Creggs Rugby Under-14 Squad: Aaron Hannon, Jack McGahon, Kevin Brennan, Conor McCormack, Leigh Doyle, Mark Purcell, Aodha Hession, Thomas O Brien, Adam Downey, Tom Farrell, Jack Rucker, Roddie McGuinness, Jack Hanley, John MCDonnell. Jack Keegan, Evan Comiskey, Diarmuid Quinn, Cian Glennon, Eric O Doherty, Lorcan Maher, Andrew Naughton.