Cumnock S1 17 Letterkenny S1 4

Irish touring team Letterkenny visited Cumnock on Friday to play the first game of their tour against Cumnock's s1 team.
The home side kicked off into the irish forwards and started their attack.
Cumnock held fast and a ruck was formed at the half way line. Letterkenny emerged with the ball to make a break with a kick and chase only to be stolen by Cumnock, passing it wide to Callum Bell exploited a gap in defence allowing Callum to score the first try.

Next on the score sheet was full back Taylor Palmer who worked hard throughout the game recovering the ball to make a 50 metre run to score at the posts. Alex Smith made a break down the wing outrunning the irish defenders to score in the corner.
Some excellent play from the irish backs created a gap in the Cumnock line letting them run in their only try of the game.

Cumnock stepped up and centre John Watt put in another two tries. The first exploiting a gap in defence to score near the posts. The second came from a pass from Sean Houston who broke through the irish defenders and offloaded to john to score in the corner.
Two conversions from Tyler Wallace made the final score 17 - 4 to Cumnock.
both teams played well and put in strong performances but Cumnock's ability to hold their line won them the game.

Man of the match award went to Tyler Wallace.