Parkes gets best DLSP welcome

SATURDAY was a day of many surprises in Division Two of the AIL, when many of the top teams were surprisingly turned over by supposed ‘lesser’ opposition.

Among the surprise winners were DLSP, who welcomed their new coach Joe Parkes to the job in marvellous fashion by beating league leaders Old Crescent for their first AIL win this season. For good measure they scored four tries to add a bonus point.

Crescent began brightly with a Stephen Tuohy penalty. Shortly afterwards DLSP went ahead when their Romanian International left wing, Mihai Vioreanu went over in the corner for an unconverted try. Crescent hit back and after a line out close to the DLSP line, Scrum half Colin Forde gave the ball to his backs and Shane Stephens scored beside the posts. Tuohy added the easy conversion to put it 5-10.