Ulster 19-14 Glasgow: Province secure pre-season win in Cavan on first visit to a GAA venue
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Pre-season friendly: Ulster v Glasgow Warriors |
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Ulster: (19) 19 |
Tries: Ewers, Hume, Stewart Cons: Flannery 2 |
Glasgow Warriors: (7) 14 |
Tries: Dobie, Hiddleston Cons: Weir 2 |
Ulster recorded a 19-14 pre-season victory over Glasgow Warriors on a day when they made history by playing at a GAA venue for the first time.
Dan McFarland's men were taking on the Scottish side at Kingspan Breffni as work continued on a new artificial surface at their Kingspan Stadium home.
Dave Ewers, James Hume and stand-in captain Tom Stewart scored Ulster's tries, all in the first half.
Jamie Dobie and Gregor Hiddleston crossed for the visitors.
Will Addison continued his recovery from a long-term absence with a broken leg while new signing Ewers delivered a man-of-the-match performance for the home side.
After losing to Benetton in their opening pre-season fixture last weekend, Ulster got their first win as Ewers opened the scoring in the 18th minute, putting the finishing touch to a fine line-out maul by the home pack.
Centre Hume got the second six minutes later, running a clever line to collect a pass from Jake Flannery and finish well, with Flannery kicking the conversion after missing from close range after the first try.
Glasgow got on the scoreboard just after the half-hour mark when scrum-half Dobie showed good feet and threw a clever dummy to create space touch down.
Stewart, captain for the day with more senior players at the World Cup with Ireland, scored the third try on the stroke of half time, with fly-half Flannery again converting.
Glasgow threatened a comeback when Hiddleston touched down just two minutes after the break but they could not sustain any momentum and there were no further scores as the rest of the match became scrappy, with both sides made a number of changes.