Warriors 40 - 17 Connacht

By Dai
February 8 2004

The Warriors climbed up to fourth place in the Celtic League after completing a four try victory over Connacht at the Brewery Field on Saturday night. For a summary of the game as well as scorer and team details read on.

Celtic Warriors 40 - 17 Connacht

Despite a scare early on when Connacht raced into a 17 - 3 lead, the Warriors, missing eight internationals went on to score 4 tries and comprehensively beat Connacht in front of a small crowd at the Brewery Field.

Captain for the night Jon Bryant and winger Aisea Havili brought the Warriors back into contention with a try each in the first half. Neil Jenkins added the conversions for both tries as well as a penalty to leave the score at 17 - 17 going into the interval.

In the second half Jenkins added a further 3 penalty attempts as well as converting two further tries from Chris Horsman and Ryan Jones which gave the Warriors a bonus point and moves them up to 4th place in the table, only 7 points behind the leaders Ulster who visit the Brewery Field on 12th March.

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Warriors Scorers:

Havili (Try), Bryant (Try), Horsman (Try), R. Jones (Try), N. Jenkins (4 cons, 4 pens)

 

Connacht Scorers:

McPhillips (Try), Hewitt (Try), McHugh (2 cons, 1 pen)

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Warriors Starting XV: Gareth Wyatt; Dafydd James, Shaun James, Jonny Bryant (capt), Aisea Havili; Neil Jenkins, Sililo Martens; Christian Loader, Mathew Rees, Chris Horsman, Nick Kelly, Deiniol Jones, Maama Molitika, Cory Harris, Richard Parks.
Replacements: Christian Balshen, Geraint Morris, Mike Powell, Ryan Jones, Paul John, Matthew Nuthall, Martyn Jones.

Connacht Starting XV: M Mostyn; T Robinson, D Yapp, M McHugh, C McPhillips; D Hewitt, C Keane; W O'Kelly, J Fogarty, A Clarke, M McCarthy, A Farley, M Swift, P Neville, J O'Sullivan.
Replacements: B Jackman, P Bracken, D Browne, T Carter, C O'Loughlin, E Elwood, T Allnutt.

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