A last minute try by Chris Cochrane saw Dungannon home in this AIL 1B fixture against Galwegians at a damp Stevenson Park on Saturday afternoon with the home side winning by 21 – 15.
This was a hard won game for the home side with the conditions making it difficult for both sides to play an expansive game. The visitors were first off the mark with their No. 8 Dermot Murphy crossing for the opening score. The conversion was missed leaving the score 0 – 5.
Dungannon worked hard to get in the game and after a series of driving runs from Dungannon’s Conor Gaston and Ali Birch the home side inched ahead thanks to a couple of penalties from Michael Lawton pushing the score to 6 – 5.
With both side struggling to find continuity in the wet conditions the Stevenson’s Park outfit managed to work another chance close to the end of the first half and Lawton slotted over his third penalty to . . .
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