Virginia kicked off their Championship campaign with a resounding 12 – 39 win at Civil Service on Saturday afternoon. With a couple of results still to come, the win leave’s Virginia at the top of Division 3 after Week 1.

Virginia started the scoreboard clicking over with an early penalty from scrum half Adam Sherriff, however Service hit back fairly quickly with an unconverted try from full back Adam Thompson taking the score to 5 – 3 in favour of Service.

The visitors took control of the rest of the first half with tries from Cormac Lindsay, Christopher Cahill and Niall Patterson and a conversion from Sherriff giving Virginia a 5 – 20 lead as the teams changed ends.

Virginia added two more tries midway through the second half from Connor McHugh and a second from Lindsay. Sherriff converted both to extent the lead to 5 – 34.

Service kept going and were rewarded with a late try form Chris Stone following a driving maul and with Daniel Clarke converting the score was 12 – 34.

However, Virginia had the last word with prop Cillian Cahill crashing over for the final score giving Virginia a 12 – 39 win and top spot in Championship 3.

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