Ireland U19’s entertained their Welsh counterparts for the second time in the Four Nations competition early on Sunday afternoon at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, sports complex with Ireland recording a 5 – 3 win in an entertaining game.

It looked as though it was going to be a runaway win for Ireland after they rushed to a 2 – 0 lead in the first quarter thanks to goals from James Maginnis and Max Anderson.

However, Wales managed to regroup and started to put pressure on the Ireland defence in a scoreless second quarter.

The visitors got their breakthrough with a goal from Ben Wall at the start of the third quarter to take the score to 2 -1 in Ireland’s favour, causing both sides to up their efforts as the game became tense.

Wales pulled it back to 2 – 2 through John Bennett and it looked like the game would go into the final quarter with the teams level. However, Ireland managed to ease back in front before the final break with Louie Rowe getting on the score sheet.

Evan Jennings pushed the score on to 4 – 2 in Ireland’s favour at the start of the final quarter and Sam Walker wrapped it up with Ireland’s fifth goal three minutes later.

Wales did respond, in a matter of minutes, with their third goal, this one from Josh Izzard, but Ireland were able to hold them out for the remainder of the game to record a 5 – 3 win.

Squads

IRELAND	WALES
Sean Bateman	Emlyn Oxenham (GK)
Ben Whelan	Chris Taylor (GK)
Max Anderson	Connor Lasrado
Callum Hewat	Sam Humphries
James Clark	Nat O’ Dwyer
Sam Walker	Josh Izzard
Matthew Aughey	Owen Sutton
Cian Dorgan	Dafydd Jones
Rex Dunlop	Will Couston
Josh Filgas	Tomasz Morris
James Maginnis	Theo Bancroft
Ian Perrott	Ben Wall
Conor Irwin	Euan Dyer
Evan Jennings	Billy Collins
Karl Smyth	Charlie Johnson
Louis Rowe	John Bennett
Mark Cowan	Thomas Izzard
	Joe Webb

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