Terenure College maintain their unbeaten run defeating Malone by 15-28

Malone hosted the League leaders Terenure college on Saturday. The college side undefeated this season showed superb finishing skills to run out winners by 15-28.

Although the game was in the end a comfortable win for the visitors, the Malone scrummage was superb and put the visiting scrum under immense pressure, the visitors only option to continually wheel the scrum which went unpunished.

Malone played some excellent attacking rugby in the opening half spending considerable periods attacking the visitors line, however they failed to to turn hard working forward pressure into points.

It was the visitors who opened the scoring when second row Alex Dunlop crossed the line to score their first try which was successfully converted by out half Mark O'Oneill this gave them the lead 0-7.

Malone had a couple of early kickable penalty opportunities when the visitors infringed however Ulster out half James McKinney missed the first and struck the upright with the second. The Malone forwards were working hard taking the ball upfield and looked dangerous once into the red zone however time after time port decision making left all the hard work un rewarded.

Malone out half James McKinney was more successful with his third penalty reducing the deficit to 4 points the score being 3-7. The second score came again from the visitors when second row Kevin O'Dwyer crossed again converted by Kevin O'Neill to advance the sore to 3-14.

The opening half came to a close with no further scores from either side. Malone had the lions share of the opening half but lacked any penetration and were unable to tun periods of pressure into points, the visitors on the other hand had only a couple of scoring opportunities which they seized with clinical precision.

As the second half began one sensed that if Malone were to get back in contention they needed an early score however it was the visitors who scored when out half Mark O;Neill cut through a weak Malone defence to score and convert his own try. Score line 3-21 meant that Malone were chasing the game. A further converted try from Terenures Will Devane outstretched their lead to 3-28

Malone to their credit scored when during an attack the visitors Ryan Roops was yellow carded and Malone moved the ball wide and out half James McKinney crossed the line to score, he failed to add the conversion. score now 8-23. Malone had the last word when as the game drew to a close winger Jay Malcolm crossed for McKinney to convert to leave the final scoreline 15-28 in favour of Terenure College who secured a try bonus point.

Malone despite a lot off effort particularly in the opening half lacked any meaningful penetration. Despite totally dominating at scrum time their efforts showed little reward as the visitors went unpunished for numerous infringements.

Next game is away to Belfast rivals Harlequins, one definitely not to miss.