The First XV bowed out of the AIB Cup losing out to Blackrock at the RDS on Friday night. With 9 changes from the team that beat Terenure in the AIL the previous week we struggled to get into the game. Following mistakes early in the 1st half in our own 22 Blackrock capitalised with 2 well taken tries. Lansdowne responded with 3 penalties from Andrew Geraghty leaving the score 16 9 at half time.
In the 2nd half, we held a lot of possession but the Rock defence stood firm and our only reward came in injury time when Craig Ronaldson crossed for a well taken try on his competitive debut, which he converted.
Encouraging perfromances from David Twomey, Willie Earle, Ben Horan (another Debutant) & Brian McKeever.
It is now back to our main objective, AIL Division 2, versus Bective Rangers in the RDS
Saturday at 2.30pm.
