On a sunny but cool Tuesday afternoon Friends School met Royal Belfast Academical Institution in the Medallion Shield Final at the Kingspan Stadium. Dylan Gray's 1st minute try opened the scoring for Inat The crowd had barely settled after kick off when Dylan Gray intercepted the ball and sprinted 80 metres to score under the posts. Rocco Steen’s conversion had Inst 7-0 up in under a minute of play.

We caught up with the Medallion Shied semi final between Sullivan Upper and Friends School at Grosvenor Grammar on Saturday morning. Friends won the toss and elected to play with the wind on their backs. Nerves must have been jangling with a series of handling errors as both sides struggled to hang onto the ball. It took 20 minutes of fractured play before Sullivan Captain Lucas McKeown breached the friends defence and raced in under the posts easily converted by Noah Cassidy to take a 7 - 0 lead.

I had a fraught journey over from Campbell College to Pirrie Park, the neutral venue for the Medallion Shield semi final between Campbell College and Royal Belfast Academical Institution. I was caught behind a road traffic accident, and it took some time to get both vehicles on to the hard shoulder. I arrived midway through the 1st half to a 0-0 scoreline.

We caught up with the Medallion Shield match between Sullivan Upper and Larne Grammar at Sullivan on Saturday morning. This was a tense encounter between two well matched sides as Larne's flair was matched by Sullivan's grunt. Larne were on the defence early on and just as it looked like they were going to weather the storm Sullivan's No 8 barged over from close range for the opening try, converted by their outhalf, for a 7 - 0 lead.

We caught up with the Medallion Shield match between Wallace High School and Royal Belfast Academical Institution on Saturday morning in Lisburn. Dylan Gray picked up a hat- trick for RBAI against Wallace. RBAI got their account up and running with a brace from Dylan Gray. Rocco Steen converted one to give the visitors a 0 - 12 lead. Wallace hit back with a Bill Rodgers penalty to take the score to 3 - 12 but a try from Inst's Matthew Watkins, converted by Steen, gave the visitors a 3 - 19 lead at half time.

Royal School Dungannon Medallion were the visitors to Osborne Park on Saturday morning to face Royal Belfast Academical Institution Medallion in a Medallion Shield tie. Dylan Gray opened the scoring for Inst with the 1st of his brace of tries Inst came out of the blocks fast, now allowing RSD to settle and took the lead on 6 minutes when Dylan Gray scored under the posts.

We caught up with the Medallion shield match between Campbell College and Belfast Royal Academy on Saturday morning at Fox's Field. Charlie Clark is congratulated after scoring his second try for Campbell Campbell got off to a good start with an early try from Charlie Clark, converted by Harry Wells for a 7 - 0 lead after six minutes.