Portadown and Randalstown U15 were involved in an entertaining cup match on Saturday at Chambers Park. Portadown started on the front foot in perfect playing conditions, and scored two well-worked tries through Caleb Montgomery and Aaron Winter. Randalstown hit back with a try from their impressive number 8. After some excellent forward play Portadown added a third try when a super move was finished off by Montgomery just before halftime.

 Out half Graeme Currie was next to cross the Randalstown line when he used his power and pace to break a number of attempted tackles. The home team took their foot off the pedal and again Randalstown hit back through their number 8 and their dangerous centre who caused the home defence problems throughout.

A number of home substitutions helped Portadown to finish strongly and it was Montgomery who took his personal total to four tries to finally kill off Randalstown’s chances. Currie converted three of the home scores to leave the final score Portadown 36 Randalstown 21.

An obvious choice for man-of-the-match was Caleb Montgomery but Conor White also deserves praise for his sterling performance.

 Team: 1. Gareth Reid 2. Sam Close 3. Luke Burney 4. Aaron Winter 5 Conor White 6. Robert Bleakney 7. Caleb Montgomery 8. Joe Lavery 9. Michael Bennington 10. Graeme Currie 11. Stephen Shanks 12. Samuel Girvan 13. Philip McKeever  14. Dylan Marsden  15. Harry Anderson 16. Adam Anderson 17. Thomas Neill 18. Aaron Forde 19. Timothy Stevenson 20. Gareth Sommerville

This Saturday the teamtake abreak from the cup when they host Ballymena in an 11.00 kick off. The cup resumes on Saturday week with an away trip to Clogher Valley.

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