AIL 1B: Dungannon 21 Bruff 8

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Tries from Rowan Halsall, Chris Cochrane and Michael Lawton were enough to see Dungannon home on Saturday afternoon against, determined Limerick side, Bruff.

The visitors had the best of the opening quarter putting Dungannon under pressure from the off. However Dungannon’s well marshalled defence kept the visitors at bay, but as a heavy rain shower broke out Dungannon struggled to break out of their own half. The visitors  pressure eventually told with a penalty in front of the posts, converted by the Munster side’s out half, giving Bruff a 0 – 3 lead.

As the rain cleared Dungannon began to find their game and after a couple of probing sorties into the Bruff half the home side broke clear on the right with wing forward Rowan Halsall powering over for the opening try. Full back Michael Lawton added the extras and with no further score in the first half the teams turned round with the score reading 7 – 3.

Dungannon got on top at the start of the . . .

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