Rainey Try Scorers, O'Neill, McBride and Irvine.
Rainey had the better of the opening exchanges putting Dungannon under pressure for most of the opening ten minutes. Dungannon weathered he storm and enjoyed their own period of domination, crucially missing two penalties, before a break by Rainey was finished off with Rainey hooker Martin O’Neill barging over for the opening score. Out half Martin Walls added the extras to give Rainey a 7 – 0 lead.
Dungannon pushed hard to get on equal terms moving the ball at every opportunity but on one such occasion a crunching tackle on Dungannon full back Robin McCleary dislodged the ball for Rainey wing forward Gavin McGuckin to pounce on the loose ball. A nice exchange between McGuckin and centre James McBride ended with McBride crossing the line to take the score to 14- 0, Walls again adding the extras.
A penalty towards the end of the first half for a late tackle gave Walls the chance to add another three points with the impressive out half duly obliging to take the score to Rainey 17 Dungannon 0 at the break.
Dungannon got on the score sheet at the start of the second half with Gareth Graham slotting over an early penalty and when centre Philip Hall broke clear to add a try shortly after it looked as though the Stevenson Park outfit were going to stage a comeback with teh score now reading 17 – 8.
Rainey had other ideas and upped their defensive efforts and gradually began to get on top thanks to hard tackling and some astute tactical kicking from out half Walls. Dungannon failed to roll over and kept battling till the end but it was Rainey who had the last word when replacement scrum half Kenneth Irvine spotted a gap to race for the line. Walls converted taking teh final score to Rainey 24 Dungannon 8.
Rainey Old Boys III: Patrick O’Neill, Ryan Kidd, Ciaran McNamee, James McBride, Paul Kelly, Martin Walls, Connor Magee, Jason Donaghy, Gavin Hegarty, Ian Patterson, Gary Todd, Declan McCann, Martin O’Neill, Declan McKenna, Richard Michael, Connor O’Brien, Seamus McQuillan, Kenneth Irvine, Gavin Walker.
Dungannon IV: Robin McCleary, Adam Booth, Philip Hall, Clive Whylie, Kevin McElduff, Gareth Graham, Gareth James, Steven Sinnamon, Jeremy Turkington, Mark Thompson, Gareth Lucas, Declan Treanor, Wallace McKay, Rodney Lucas, Darran Lucas, John Armstrong, Jeremy Baird, Angus Dines, Aaron Falloon, Stephen Graham.
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