Bonus Point Victory for J1′s

 Posted by Junior2 on 22 January, 2012  MSSL, Photosets, Results
Jan 222012
 
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The J1 team travelled away on Sunday afternoon to take on Nenagh in the Senior 2nds League. With the Junior cup coming up next week  a Solid performance was a must and the Lads didn’t disappoint. Bruff  playing with a strong breeze  in the first half were quick out of the blocks and led 22-o at the break thanks to tries from Nigel O Riordan, Paul O Brien and John Hogan. Barry Enright kicked a Penalty and Conversion.

Nenagh did manage a converted try 5 minutes into the second half but this was all the Bruff defence was willing to give up in the 80 minutes. The Bonus Point was secured 15 minutes into the second half when Brian Carrol broke from the base of a ruck to dot down under the posts.  The game finished 29-7 to Bruff

Team. 1K Laffan2J Hogan3C O Sullivan4P Lynch5T Quirke6J McCarthy7B Horan8M McCarthy9T Carroll10B Enright11R Finn12G Leonard13B Carroll14N O Riordan15p O Brien16S Sheahan17M O Donovan18E Quinn19R McAulliffe20J Carroll

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Jan 092012
 

The J2 team had a great win in the final of the McInerney Cup on Saturday afternoon.

Bruff were Down 3-10 at half time, Bruff’s Penalty from Richard McAuliffe. Bobby McInerney got Thomond’s try mid-way through the half with Christian Meehan kicking a penalty and a conversion

Bruff However Scored 3 unanswered trys in the 2nd half the first from Andrew Breen. Dave Conway got possession of the ball in the Bruff half and made a clean line Break, this was followed by some lovely hands involving Conway, Rob Finn,& Denis Kennedy who was eventually tackled in the Thomond 22 but managed a clean off load which Breen finished, Ritchie adding the extras. The Second try was scored by Rob Finn. Scrum half Barry Enright broke from the back of a ruck and drifted across the line popping the ball off for Finn to finish,which was again converted by McAuliffe.

The 3rd try came with the last play of the game. With Thomond down 17-10 at this stage they were pushing the Bruff line hard to get the equalizing score. However Bruff managed to clear the ball into the Thomond half. Thomond in turn tried to run the ball from their own 22 which proved costly. John Hayes stripped the ball from the opposition winger and moved it on to Dave Conway who had an easy run in from 30 yards out to complete the scoring and finish the game off at 22-10.

Derek Dowling the Bruff captain picked up the cup for the 6th time in Bruff’s history Joining former winning captains, Dick Leonard, John Dunworth x 2, Darren Sheehan and last year’s captain John Hayes

Team 1 Seamus Sheahan (70 Min S O Shea) 2 Kevin Carroll 3 Steve O Shea(50 Min D Keogh) 4 Barry Laffan 5 Charlie Fitzgerald(HT J Hayes) 6 Martin Hennessy 7 Mossie O Donnell 8 Mike McCarthy 9 Barry Enright 10 Richard McAulliffe 11 Andrew Breen 12 Dave Conway 13 Denis Kennedy(55 min N McNamara) 14 Robbie Finn 15 Derek Dowling (50 Min A O Sullivan) 16 Dave Keogh 17 Kevin O Sullivan 18 John Hayes 19 Aidan O Sullivan 20 James McCarthy 21 Barry Lee 22 Noel McNamara

 

The 3rd’s went into the weekend with a slim chance of making the knock out stages of the Gleeson league, Needing a win and hoping for two other games to go their way.

Unfortunately this didn’t pan out but thankfully they did get the win beating Old Crescent 38-7 at home in Kilballyowen.

Bruff opened the scoring early in the first half and raced into a 17-0 lead with trys from Alan Kilcoyne, Mossie O Donnell and a superb individual try from Charlie Fitzgerald, Ritchie McAuliffe adding a Conversion. Crescent hit back to make it 17-7 before John O Sullivan used his pace scoring a try from inside the Bruff half to leave the score 24-7 at half time.

Crescent were on the attack from early on in the second half but could not break down the Bruff defence. Alan Kilcoyne added his second try midway through the second half with Mike McCarthy scoring a sixth Bruff try before the final whistle. Ritchie McAuliffe kicked 4 conversions in total bringing his total to 55 points so far for the season.

Saturday’s game was the last game of the league. The Semi-final of the McInerney cup is up next for the lads with an away Trip to St. Senans in Shannon next Saturday.

Gleeson League result

 Posted by Junior2 on 13 November, 2011  Adult Rugby, gleeson league, J2 XV, Results
Nov 132011
 

The Thirds fell to their 2nd defeat of the season on Friday evening away to Shannon. Down 21-0 at half time playing into a Gale the lads battled hard to salvage a losing bonus point. Shannon hit early in the second half to pull away into a 27-0 lead. When Bruff eventaully got into the game they scored 3 well worked trys from Steve O Shea, Brian Carrol and Alan Kilcoyne. Ritchie McAullife kicked 3 conversions to leave the final Score 28-21 to Shannon.

Team, Forward: S Sheahan K Carrol D Keogh B Laffan P Lynch M Hennessy M McCarthy S O Donnell Backs P Ahern B Carroll N McNamara D Kennedy J O Sullivan A Breen D Dowling Subs S O Shea A Kilcoyne K O Sullivan C Fitzgerald T Clancy R McAuliffe

 

Both the seconds and thirds were in action this weekend. The J2′s were first out on Saturday in the Gleeson League with a home games against St. Marys.

Bruff were up 13-3 at half time thanks to trys from Noel Ford and Shane O Donnell with Ritchie McAuliffe adding a penalty. Bruff had to fight hard in the second half and held out for a 13-10 victory.

The 2nds were in action Sunday away to UL Bohs. The fixture doubled as a league and transfield Cup game. Behind for most of the game Bruff eventually came away with a 22-21 win. John Carrol opened the Bruff account with a try in the first half with Barry Enright adding the conversion. Enright kicked a penalty mid way through the second half before Martin O Rourke Scored a brace of trys from 2 push over scrums one of which was converted.

Well Done Martin Hennessy

All at Bruff Rugby club would like to congratulate Martin Hennessy who recently competed in the 250Km Sahara Race . Martin finshed 46th from over 150 competitor’s.

http://www.4deserts.com/sahararace/competitors

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