Friends School, Lisburn was the neutral venue for the Medallion Trophy Final between Banbridge Academy and Belfast High School. A strong cold wind blew down the pitch, initially in High School’s favour. As the match kicked off Lisburn was hit with a strong squall with heavy rain and strong winds causing handling and kicking problems for both teams. With the rain and wind at their backs, High School coped with the conditions better and settled into a forward dominated game.

We caught up with the Medallion Trophy semi final between Banbridge Academy and Bangor Grammar at Banbridge on Saturday morning. A good crowd was treated to some fine rugby by the home team who got off the mark early with No 12, Dawson Knox bursting through to open the scoring. for a 5 - 0 lead.

We caught up with the Medallion Trophy match between Banbridge Academy and Portadown College at Banbridge on Saturday morning. Banbridge started well, scoring an early try from No 8, Charlie Geoghagen who crashed over beside the posts to give Daniel Byrne a straightforward conversion for a 7 - 0 lead. Charlie Geoghegan picked up three tries from Banbridge, It was all Banbridge in the first half but it took until midway through the half for the same combination to double the lead, Geoghagen going over in the corner and Byrne converting from out wide to take the score to 14 - 0.