Pro14: Ulster quartet sign two-year contract extensions
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Robert Baloucoune has scored 12 tries in 21 Ulster appearances
Robert Baloucoune, Luke Marshall, Alan O'Connor and Aaron Sexton will remain at Ulster until 2023 after signing two-year contract extensions.
Winger Baloucoune has scored 12 tries since making his debut in 2018.
Second row O'Connor and long-serving centre Marshall have also penned new deals.
Highly-rated academy winger Sexton will spend one year as a development player before being upgraded to a senior contract for the following season.
Former Ireland rugby sevens player Baloucoune was rewarded for his fine form with a call up into Andy Farrell's Six Nations squad as a development player in 2020. However the 22-year-old has not featured this season after undergoing surgery on a hamstring injury sustained in August.
Dubliner O'Connor made his Ulster debut in the 2012-13 season and has become a key figure under Dan McFarland. He captained the side in December's Pro14 victory in Connacht.
Marshall, 29, has made 144 appearances for Ulster since joining the academy in 2009 but has found game time hard to come by in recent seasons with injury. The Ireland capped centre is currently on the sidelines after sustaining a knee injury against Scarlets in November.
Bangor native Sexton, 20, made his senior Ulster debut in November's Pro14 victory against Edinburgh and scored two tries as Ulster As beat their Leinster counterparts on 15 January.