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 | | Wednesday, 27 February, 2002, 16:10 GMT Bangor Grammar cause upset  John Moutray makes a break against RS Dungannon BRA 15-17 Bangor Grammar Bangor Grammar caused a minor upset when they inched past BRA in the re-run of their quarter-final tie at Roughfort on Saturday. The seasiders have now booked themselves a semi-final duel with hot favouites Methodist College at Ravenhill on 7 March. BRA will be kicking themselves after they were well on top of the abandoned game last Wednesday while leading 13-7. On Saturday, they looked down and out by the break when they were trailing 17-0. But a storming second half performance saw them claw their way back, and had a chance to win the game in the final minute but Andrew Harper's penalty drifted wide. Bangor opened up with a penalty in the 14th minute by James Milliken, son of former Lions centre Dick. Defended well That was quickly followed with a try by Paul Kelly which was converted by Milliken. Bangor surged further ahead with a try by second row Peter Corbett who charged down a BRA clearance kick. Milliken again converted. With the wind now at their tails, BRA started their fightback 11 minutes after the restart. Scrum-half David O'Hara nipped in for their opening try and then Harper landed a drop goal to leave the score at 17-8. Bangor defended well, but cracked three minutes from the end when William Mickel crashed over in the corner with Harper landing a superb conversion. Wallace High 29-16 Royal Armagh A dogged forward performance saw Wallace High spring a major surprise in defeating fancied Royal Armagh at Lisburn. Two tries by excellent number 8 Christopher Henry helped Wallace overhaul Armagh who had taken a 13-5 half-time lead with a gale at the backs. Indeed Armagh looked as if they were going to run away with the game when they were 10 points ahead in as many minutes. They scored a neat try through centre Stuart Megan who found gap in the Wallace defence after only two minutes. Ulster Schools' fly-half Gareth Steenson converted and then rattled over a close-range penalty a few minutes later. It took Wallace 20 minutes to realise that keeping the ball in hand against the fierce wind would pay dividends.
Their forwards began to dominate up front, and when they drove up field a neat passing movement saw left winger Iain Semple dive in at the corner. Steenson, whose intelligent kicking kept Wallace pinned in their own half, landed a 22nd minute penalty. But it was a different ball game on the restart. The big well-drilled Wallace pack took over and soon reduced the leeway with a try by fly-half Mark McCormick and converted by Thomas Shorten. In Armagh's lone trip into Wallace territory in the second half, Steenson knocked over his third penalty. But that was that, as Armagh came under the cudgel of the conditions and the Wallace pack. Henry bull-dozed his way over his for double in the the space of five minutes as Armagh got bogged down in their own ''22''. Lively hooker David Morrison was at the bottom of another forward drive to claim his side's fifth and final try on the stroke of full time. Wallace High: G Beattie; A Savage; L Jones, A Currie, I Semple; M McCormick, T Shorten; S Trimble, D Morrison, A Megarry, J Moore, D Dawson, M Hill, T Lee, C Henry. RS Armagh: T Bowe; D Carelton; C Black, S Megan, G Magill; G Steenson, S Auld; J Baird, C Knipe, M Shiells, S Cardwell, S Henry, D Martin, T Clarke, J McCall. RS Dungannon 3-37 Campbell College Campbell College had little trouble in storming past Dungannon in extremely difficult muddy conditions at Northland Road. The Belfast school were 18-3 up at half-time and went on to win at a breeze. It was thought that the underfoot conditons would stop Campbell engaging in their usual running game, but five of their six tries came from the threequarters. Fly-half Thomas Horner started the show with a penalty and then scored an unconverted try himself after a fine run down the left wing. Dungannon came back into the game for a while and winger Darren Simpson landed a penalty.
But Campbell finished the half on a high with two tries in four minutes. First winger John Moutray and then their big number 8 and skipper Neil McComb crossed touched down. But it was the 19 points in the first quarter of the second half that killed off Dungannon. Horner put full-back Johnny Cartmill in, and then winger Bill Elliott charged in for two great tries both of which Horner converted. RS Dungannon: M Campbell; D Parkhill; P Hall, P Birnie, capt, D Simpson; R Patton, J Wong; G Maxwell, J Peyton, A Irwin, M Jenkinson, P Montgomery, T Smith, S McCarroll, G Erskine. Campbell College:J Cartmill; J Moutray; R Rea, P McCausland, B Elliott; M Horner, N Wallace; A Stewart, C Thallon, R Kelso, M Willis, J Andress, E Uzoigwe, N McComb, capt, G Moore. Foyle&Londerry Coll 7-17 Methody Hot favourites Methodist College did enough to move into the semi-final stage against a brave Foyle side. Methody opened the scoring through a Johnny McClaughlin penalty as they kept the ball tight in the dreadfully cold conditions. The Belfast side then surged further ahead when following a short penalty, flanker Stephen Minnis crashed over with McClaughlin converting. Methody were in control, but got a shock with a breakaway try by Foyle midway through the half. A dropped pass was pounced on by Richard Cooke and he hacked on from the half-way line and won the race for the touchdown. Richard McCarter, Foyle's key man who was kept reasonably quite by Methody converted. Methody closed the game up after the break after they scored another try through their skipper Mike Williams which was converted again by McClaughlin. Foyle&Londonderry: D Holmes; R Cooke; D Fleming, H Shubber, R Campbell; R McCarter, N Cooke; P Doherty, R Philson, T Downey, D McClintock, A Walker, M McIlwaine, P Gilliland, P McFeely. Methody: M Kettyle; O Crossey; M Scott, J McClaughlin, R Duffy; C McCallen, R Sloan; C Graham, R Walshe, R Gleadhill, M Williams, M Graham, S Minnis, D Denny, S Workman. Quarter-finals | |
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