James Kirk reports

A large Ballynahinch travelling support made their way to Affidea stadium in the hunt for silverware to accompany them back to Ballymacarn Park as the second fifteen faced Junior stalwarts Enniskillen in the Junior Cup Final before the first fifteen side featured in the showpiece Senior Cup Final against Instonians.

The Senior Cup Final proved to be an excellent advert for club rugby with a physical, closely-contested match giving supporters of both sides plenty to cheer. Instonians took an early lead with recent ulster call-up Bradley MacNamara showing plenty of pace to take advantage of a favourable bounce and race over the line. Ballynahinch showed all their class across the remainder of the first half as they began to win the physical battle, eventually sucking in the Instonians defence to allow outhalf James Humphreys to score almost unopposed and then taking the lead before the break when Aaron Sexton shredded the cover defence before offloading to Matthew Booth for the try.

Ballynahinch continued to turn the screw in the third quarter with two superb Conor Rankin penalties taking them two scores ahead as they kept their opponents at arms length. However the game came to life with a second Instonian try setting up a grandstand finish.

Ballynahinch used all their big game experience to dominate the closing exchanges and although electric replacement Pierce Crowe had a try denied by a superb cover tackle, Rankin knocked over a last minute penalty to put the game beyond doubt and install the Senior Cup back into the trophy cabinet at Ballymacarn Park.