TRINITY GET FIRST LEAGUE WIN!

Trinity 37pts  Young Munster 26pts;  October 27, 2018

 

On a beautiful crisp autumn day in College Park Trinity won their first game of the AIL season with an impressive 37-26 win over Young Munster.

 

Trinity started the game full of intent but seemed to get on the wrong side of the referee early on and were crucified with a barrage of penalties for technical infringements. The Limerick visitors were accurate with three penalty kicks to one for Trinity and led 9-3 late into the first half.

 

The game took off when Leinster ‘A’ full back Michael Silvester attacked from deep like only he can. He linked with his Captain Colm Hogan who ran a scissors off him still deep in the Trinity half. Hogan just took off, running by YM players as if they were stood still. He got through to the last defender and it was the trailing Silvester who took the return pass to score by the posts for as spectacular a try as you will see in College Park this season.

 

The students kept attacking and from a 1stphase move James Hickey sliced through a gap and fed Silvester who ran in again for his second try. Half time 17-9 Trinity.

 

In the second half Trinity, with the breeze at their backs, continued to play some entertaining rugby. Again the backs pulled off another move, this time Silvester noticing space in behind and “grubbered” through for debutant wing Liam Turner to burn the cover to take his score well.

 

The visitors got over for a try of their own when their impressive right wing got free to score. Trinity kept in control though when, from a turnover at a line out, the ball was moved quickly to that man Michael Silvester who saw the path to the try line and sprinted through it with great haste! This gave his team a bonus point for four tries.

 

Trinity looked set for a biggish score but their hopes were dashed when they got a player put in the sin bin. The proud YM squad came back hard and scored two tries, to give the score-line some respectability.

 

All in all this was a crucial result for the students, who now face Terenure for their 5thgame on the bounce on Friday night in Lakelands – 8pm KO.

 

Trinity team; 15 Michael Silvester, 14 Liam McMahon, 13 James Hickey, 12 Phil Murphy, 11 Ronan Quinn, 10 James Fennelly, 9 Rowan Osborne, Bart Vermeulen, 2 Dan Sheehan, 3 Dylan Doyle, 4 Alex MacDonald, 5 Arthur Green, 6 Patrick Nulty, 7 Max Kearney, 8 Niall O’Riordan;

Subs Joe Horan, Thomas Clarkson, Cian O’Dwyer, Conor Lowndes, Rob Russell.

 

The other Club game on the Bank holiday weekend for Trinity was the U20s Premier game V UCDin College Park. This was the league game after the Conroy Cup last week at which Trinity beat UCD 20-9. UCD had several of their Leinster lads back this week and looked a different proposition.

 

Trinity dominated the early exchanges to take a 17-0 lead, scoring with two well-worked 1stphase moves. But yet again a yellow card changed the dynamic of the game and let UCD show their power and score two tries of their own after their forwards hammered away at the Trinity line. Trinity were only 17-14 up at half time.

 

In the second half Trinity took back control of the game and upped the tempo to score three unanswered tries in a very entertaining game of rugby. Trinity won the game impressively 41-17.

 

Next Sunday Trinity U20s play arch-rival Lansdowne in College park at 2.3