Ulster Rugby vs Barbarians

Neil Brown to take the scoring pass, running the ball home from outside the 22 and scoring in the corner. Ulster then seized the initiative on 31 minutes. A huge hit by Ulster in the midfield saw the ball spill forward and into the hands of fly-half Bokkie Carstens who accelerated away to score under the posts, leaving McCluggage with a simple conversion to make it 12-5. Ulster got off to the perfect start in the second half, with Brian Hughes soaring high to gather the ball from Carstens’ restart. Ulster held onto the ball, going through the phases before the ball made its way to Phil Cartmill down the left hand side, who made an outside break to finish in the corner. McCluggage converted to make the score 19-5.

Leinster then added a brace of tries, either side of a McCluggage penalty, to make it a one-score game at 22-15 with 20 minutes to play. Leinster were now struggling to get out of their own 22, and when a clearing kick was gathered by Ulster winger Mitchell McComb, play was switched to the opposite wing for Brown to dart in for his second try of the game. Ulster then put the game and the championship to bed in the closing stages as a misdirected pass broke to centre Mikey Poskitt who had the pace to leave the covering defence in his wake and touch down. Poskitt converted his own try to make the final score 34-15, giving Ulster their third win and a clean sweep to claim the 2017 Inter-Provincial title.

ULSTER JUNIORS

TEAM

PL W D L

F A DIFF BP PTS

Ulster Juniors

3

3 2 1 0

0 0 0 0

0 1 2 3

88 23 65 68 38 30

2 1

14

Munster Juniors 3 Leinster Juniors 3 Connacht Juniors 3

9 4 1

45 78 -33 0 22 84 -62 1

39

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