URC D3: Civil Service (NI) 12 Virginia 39

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by

John McMurtry

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 , however Service hit back fairly quickly with an unconverted try from full back taking the score to 5 – 3 in favour of Service.

Niall Patterson heads for the line for Virginia.

The visitors took control of the rest of the first half with tries from , and 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 and a second from Lindsay. Sherriff converted both to extent the lead to 5 – 34.

Chris Stone goes over for Service

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

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

Gallery Below

Ulster Championship D3 Results Week 1

SAT 4 SEPCivil Service12–39Virginia
SAT 4 SEPHolywood14–15Cavan
SAT 4 SEPStrabane19–18PSNI
SAT 4 SEPBHSFP25–37Monaghan
SAT 4 SEPNewry8–5Letterkenny

Ulster Championship D3 STANDINGS Week 1

TEAMPWDPDBPPTS
Virginia1102715
Monaghan1101215
Newry110304
Strabane110104
Cavan110104
P.S.N.I100-111
Holywood100-111
Letterkenny100-311
UU Coleraine000000
B.H.S FP100-1200
Civil Service100-2700

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