Edenderry Soldiers 6-34 Dublin Dragons

In the Dragons' second game of the season, they showed their great potential in a hard-hitting affair with the Edenderry Soldiers.

The Dragons came out fired up and after a quick stop from their defence, their offence went to work.? Despite losing their starting quarterback on just their second play after a tremendous hit, the Dragons marched down the pitch behind the running of #28 Liam Rowsome and passing of backup QB #20 Niall Kennedy. Rowsome finished the drive with a short touchdown run. The Dragons' defence came up trumps again on Edenderry's next drive with another quick stop, and the offence went to work again, with Liam Rowsome finishing off another fine drive with his second TD.Again Edenderry's offence struggled to get a consistent drive going and the Dragon's made them pay again, this time with QB # 3 Dermot O'Callaghan hooking up with offensive MVP Rowsome for a short TD pass just before half-time.

At the start of the second half the Dragons' defence again stuffed their opponents, and the offence took to the field again. After a couple of dumb penalties pushed the Dragons back 10 yards, the offence came up the play of the game, with O'Callaghan firing a perfect 75 yard TD pass to receiver # 86 Peter Wright. With the score at 27-0 most teams would have been forgiven for going in the tank, but the Soldiers had no designs on giving up, putting together their best drive of the game. With some good passing, and excellent running from their QB, the Soldiers finally got on the board with a run by said QB. Today was not to be their day though, as the Dragons drove right down the pitch to score again, with Liam Rowsome shredding their defence on one of his now trademark mazy runs. Neither team was to score again with both defences rising to the challenge, despite some fine running from #47 Tom Lenihan and # 35 Oisin Collins. MVPs for the Dragons were Rowsome on offence and #79 Shane O'Connell on defence.

Report by Al Burke.

Photos by Mick Kirwan.