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The remaining teams will be joined by the winners and runners-up of the Tier 4 competition to compete in the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Bowl competition. On Wednesday 16th October, one Group B game took place when Foyle and Londonderry College hosted Down High School. The Down High School team recorded an emphatic 40-0 victory in the course of the game. On Friday 18th October, Belfast High School entertained Belfast Royal Academy in group E. Following a closely contested first half, the Belfast Royal Academy team took a 7-0 lead into the break before going on to win the game by 38-7. On Saturday 19th October, the remaining ten group games took place. In Group A, Rainey Endowed School played Dromore High School in a game the Rainey Endowed School team won by 22-10.

Twenty-four teams competed in the twelve games last week. Each of the twenty four teams will play three group games over three weekends in October, November (16th) and December (7th) with the six group winners, and four highest placed runners up, joining the six schools who are exempted from the group games, in the last sixteen of the Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup. Those six schools are Ballymena Academy, Campbell College, Belfast, Methodist College, Belfast, Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Royal School, Armagh and Wallace High School. games take place in the newly formatted Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup group stage games. Wednesday 16th, Friday 18th and Saturday 19th October saw twelve

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