Irish Canadians hammered Brantford 46-0 to end the regular season in second place with a 10-3-1 record on Saturday at Fletchers Fields.

Wartime travel problems caused the Irish to miss two starters in prop Jon Ashley and center Jadon Schmidt, and out half Ed Gardner arrived from Hong Kong only hours before kickoff, yet the greens ran in seven tries to dispatch the Quins, a team they had lost to in July.

Neither team seemed very interested in the result, but consistent pressure led to more scoring opportunities for the Irish, who ended the season with 51 points, second to Oakville. 

Kyler Petrie scored twice in the first half from the unfamiliar position of scrum half, with Gardner adding a penalty.

Second half scores came from Ryan Carr (in his first game in the senior XV, replacing Ashley), Dave Laing, Mark Thompson, JD Wheeler and Tom Madden.  Brantford, without star center Barclay Luke and flanker Trevor Blaine, were in the Irish end for four minutes only in the second half.

"An odd game played under surreal circumstances, and we know it will be much, much tougher in two weeks," noted Irish coach Mark Winokur, "but many people really stepped up and contributed, and we did more than enough to win today."

The season now concluded, and the 10-3-1 record actually better than the one that won the league two years ago, the greens now look forward to hosting Ottawa Indians in the first ever pool based Cup competition.

The development sides dismal performance in a 10-5 loss to Quins underscored the need to train-practices now shift to Richmond Green on Monday and Thursday at 7:00PM sharp. (Click here for map)