The Front Row Union Sport - Club Men: Larne 17 Carrickfergus 43 Preseason Friendly

Larne and Carrick went head to head in a typically physical preseason encounter at the Glynn on Saturday afternoon.

The visitors had the best of the game with their extended squad a touch too polished for the young Larne team, though both sides left a few scores on the pitch as they brushed off the cobwebs in the opening exchanges.

David Carse tormented the Larne defence throughout.

Carrick were first to get over the line with scrum half Conor Cambridge finding the line after 10 minutes. David Carse added a second seven minutes later and with Adam White converting Carrick took a 0 – 12 lead into the break.

Callum Adair scored for Larne on his senior debut.

Larne hit back with tries from Jack Withers and Callum Adair at the start of the second half but Carrick’s young winger replied almost immediately with a well taken score and as the visitors changed out their team en mass the refreshed Cambridge, Jakob McComb, Reese Hamilton and Carse all crossed with White and Daniel Curley adding four conversions to push the score out to 10 – 43.

The home side were more competitive than the score line suggests and they got some reward for their efforts with the final score of the game, Robbie Doey sliding home for Euan Glenn to convert.