CBC & Rockwell Advance In Junior Cup

Holders CBC and Rockwell have qualified for the last eight of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Junior Cup after wins in their opening round games.

Christians made a winning start to their campaign with a 25-3 win at Lansdowne.

The Limerick side made the better start and they opened the scoring after four minutes when Christopher Guerin slotted over a long range penalty from outside the CBC ten-metre line.

CBC promptly began to turn the screw and Eoin Birchall barged over in the corner for their first try in the ninth minute, following a ruck deep inside the visitors’ 22. George Coomber’s conversion attempt from a difficult angle fell short of the posts.

Midway through the opening half, Guerin missed a penalty for the Limerick side while bad handling in scoring positions was proving to be costly for the Sydney Hill College in the second quarter.

Despite facing the wind in the second half Christians upped the pace of their game and Coomber increased their advantage to five points with a penalty inside the Ard Scoil Rís 22 in the 35th minute.

Five minutes later, the ball was spread out to Patrick O’Hara for the home side’s second try following a lineout deep inside the Ard Scoil Rís 22 and Coomber converted.

Handling errors short of the line prevented Ard Scoil Rís from producing further scores midway through the second-half.

Tries in the corner from Birchall and O’Hara in the final quarter put the game beyond the Limerick side’s reach.

CBC: George Coomber; Ben McGarry, Daire Burke, Patrick O’Hara, Jack McGrath; Andrew O’Mahony, Eoin Birchall; Corey Hanlon, Luke McAuliffe, Alan McDonald; James Morrisson, Patrick McBarron; Kevin Roche, Dylan O’Connor, Ronan O’Sullivan.

Replacements: Luke Buckley, Ryan Smith, Wanfred Waterman, Mark Ludgate, Jason Ahern, Jack Kennefick, Tom McCarthy, David McPolin.

Ard Scoil Rís: Paddy Hassett; Alexander Keyes, Cian Noonan, Darragh McGleenan, Christopher Guerin; Rory O’Gorman, Darragh Shine; Mark Moylan, James White, Ronan Carew; Jack Maloney, Oran O’Reilly; Colin Kelly, David O’Loughlin, Mark O’Connor.

Replacements: John Maher, Feidhlim Barry, Alex Dowling, Adam Kennedy, Ben McEnery, Stephen Noonan, Conor Maxwell, Damien Keogh.

Referee: Kieran Barry (MAR).

Rockwell were too strong Glenstal Abbey at the 4GUL pitch running out comfortable winners 24-0.

Tries from Adam Maher, Adam Buttimer and Michael Mulligan, two of which Rory Collins converted had Rockwell 19-0 ahead at half-time.

The only score of the second half was a fourth Rockwell try from Jack Heffernan.

Glenstal Abbey: Rob McNamara; Evan O’Neill, Aboudi Al-Helaissi, William Twomey, John Walsh; Tristan Higgins, Josh Kennedy; Dermot Hughes, Matthew Cannon, Seamus Kerrisk; Stefan Caulfield-Drier, Angus McDonald; Tom Rooney, Ben Shippam, Cormac Frawley.

Replacements: Iarlaith O’Reilly, Cian O’Brien, Adam White, Liam Duggan, Ivor Larkin, Charlie McCartan, Ian Larkin, Patrick Johnson.

Rockwell: Tom Tobin; Darius Achimugu, Sam Tarleton, Michael Mulligan, Robert Wall; Rory Collins, Adam Maher; Matthew Burke, Cathal Ryan, Jack Heffernan; Charlie Shanahan, Luke Fogarty; Liam Shine, Dean Fanning, Adam Buttimer.

Replacements: Osereimen Ediale, Tom Downey, Mikey Bergin, Brian Gleeson, Tom Ross, Ben McCarthy, Henry Buttimer, Alex Cronin.

Referee: Tomas O’Sullivan (MAR).