Omagh Accies youth impress at Affidea Stadium

TWELVE selected players from the Omagh Accies U12smade the trip to the Affidea Stadium to play Instonians RFC at half-time at Ulster’s URC league match against Munster on Saturday evening.

They lost the toss and Instonians opted to kick-off.

Instonians kicked off and Omagh caught the ball cleanly and immediately moved the ball wide, showing great hands offloading in the tackle.

Omagh out-half Thomas Braden threw a huge miss pass to winger Sam Motherwell, who took the pass at full flight Sam rounded the last Instonians defender to race clear and score the first try. 5-0.

After the kick-off, Omagh regained possession from a Sam Speers jackal, they again spread the ball through number eight Tom Wilson who passed to Scrumhalf Daniel Maxwell who put outside centre Noah McMullan into space.

Noah used his pace to round the struggling instonians defence to score in the corner.

Scoreline: 10-0 Omagh.

Omagh continue to battle, defending hard and attacking the Instonians gain line.

The third try came from a strong ball carry from tight head prop Avery McCrossan.

Avery offloaded to Tom Wilson who carried hard up to the instonians line.

Tom offloaded out of the back of his hand to supporting player Daniel Maxwell who powered through the smallest of gaps to squeeze over for the touch down - 15-0 Omagh.

The full-time hooter sounded,. Instonians were in possession and worked the ball wide, gave a lovely inside ball to their centre who run a lovely line and crashed over.

The last play of the game and a 15-5 victory to the Omagh U12s.

An Accies spokesperson said: “A superb experience for all the players and coaches.

“The travelling supporters and coaches couldn’t be prouder of the performance.

“We wish Instonians every success in the rest of their mini rugby season.”