Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Quarter-Finals

The opening quarter-finals in the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup resulted in home wins with both Cork Schools recording big winning margins.

At Rosbrien, Crescent College Comprehensive defeated Rockwell 27-20.

Crescent raced into an early 10-0 lead with tries from Conor Fitzgerald and Daire Feasy.

Rockwell hit back and were level 10-10 with a Conall Kennedy try and a conversion and a penalty from Jake Flannery.

Crescent extended their lead to 22-10 with tries from Conor Philips (converted by John Hurley) and Feasy. Rockwell finished with a late rally that yielded a Flannery penalty and a conversion of a Tom Russell try to leave two between the sides.

Timmy Duggan scored Crescent’s fifth try in injury time to seal the win.

Crescent College Comprehensive: Conor Phillips; Cian Tuohy, Jamin Hoffman, John Hurley, Timothy Duggan; Jack Delaney, Aaron Cosgrove; Conor Fitzgerald, Ronan Reynolds, Ben Leahy; Peter King, Cian McDonagh; Jack Madden, Daniel Feasey, Fintan Coleman.

Replacements: Charlie Dinneen, Dylan Shaw-Kelly, Eoin Feeney, Barry Scott, Brian Naughton, Jack Connolly, Paul Collins, Nevil O’Sullivan.

Rockwell: Ryan O’Sullivan; Conor Pearson, Jack Hunt, Andrew Daly, Dylan Farrelly; Jack Flannery, Oisin Mangan; Molloy, James O’Meara, Brendan Ryan; Niall O’Hanrahan, Robert Browne; Conall Kennedy, Stephen Grogan, Ciaran Ryan.

Replacements: Tom Dowling, Tom Russell, Killian Lane, Cathal Hayes, Harry Tobin, John O’Sullivan, Maurice O’Sullivan, Sean Cotter.

Referee: Kieran Barry.

At Temple Hill, CBC advanced on a 58-17 score line against a gallant St. Clement’s side but the result does not do justice to the Limerick side’s performance.

Twice in the opening half Clement’s came from behind to level but once Christians upped the ante in the second half they ran in seven tries to one to be deserving winners.

Robert Hedderman and John Bateman exchanged penalties before Adam O’Connor got in at the corner for the first of his three tries and Hedderman expertly converted from the side line.

A try from Adam Marshall converted by Bateman levelled the scores ten minutes before the interval.

In injury time Hedderman put Christians ahead with a try which he converted for a 17-10 half time lead.

Early tries for CBC from Robert Loftus, Eoghan Barrett and O’Connor stretched their lead to 34-10 with twelve minutes of the second half played.

Barrett, O’Connor, Hedderman and Scott Buckley added further tries for the winners and Shane Brosnahan replied with a Clement’s try which Bateman converted.

CBC: Robert Hedderman; John O’Hea, Eoghan Barrett, Tomas Downes, Adam O’Connor; Eric Monohan, Jack O’Riordan; Robert Loftus, David Good, Luke Masters; Anthony Ryan, Cian Hurley; John Willis, Ronan Barry, Ben Roche.

Replacements: Charlie Rasmussen, Daniel O’Connor, Harry Fitzgerald, Dylan McAuliffe, Scott Buckley, Finn Burke, Louis Kahn, Cian Whooley, Harry Riordan, Matthew Bowen.

St Clement’s: Alex Kiely; Adam Kiely, Adam Marshall, John Bateman, Craig O’Brien; Evan Barrett, Evan Griffin; Colin Byrne, Adam Ahern, Aron Stacey; Alex Lloyd, David Bridgeman; Chris Heelan, Scott Duggan, Shane Brosnahan.

Replacements: Damon Lee, Eoin Keenan-Quinn, Gerard O’Byrne, Killian McCarthy, Rhys Dunne, Michael Kiely, James Neville, Alex Fitzgerald, Aaron Walsh, Nathan Curry.

Referee: Chris Harrington (MAR).

Holders PBC are through to the semi-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup as they defeated Ard Scoil Ris 67-7 in a lopsided quarter final at Irish Independent Park.

The Mardyke College had 26 points on the board after 11 minutes, courtesy of tries from Mark McCarthy, Sam O’Donovan Mark McLoughlin and Daragh O’Callaghan, with three of these converted by Jonathan Wren.

Ard Scoil Ris had their moments in the second quarter, but bad handling on the Mardyke College’s 22 was proving to be costly.

The Mardyke College increased their lead to 33 points in the 29th minute when O’Donovan scored his second try, which was converted by Wren.

For most of the second half, PBC played exhibition rugby. French and O’Donovan increased the margin to ten points with unconverted tries.

Louis Bruce sprinted three-quarters the length of the pitch to dive under the bar and James Broderick converted to increase the Mardyke College’s total to 50 points.

The margin was stretched to a further ten points with unconverted tries in the space of a minute by Eoin Burns and David Hyland.

Ard Scoil Ris responded with a try from Cian Murphy, midway through the second half, which was converted by Darragh O’Gorman.

Hyland scored his second try, which Broderick converted with the last kick of the game.

PBC: Louis Bruce; Mark McLoughlin, Sean French, Jonathan Wren, Sam O’Donovan; James Broderick, David Harrington; Tom Ormond, Billy Scannell, David McCarthy; Mark McCarthy, Eoin Quilter; Alex Kendellen, Darragh O’Callaghan, David Hyland.

Replacements: Darragh Murphy, Alex Keating, Rory Duggan, Eoin Burns, Mark Fitzgibbon, James O’Shaughnessy, Niall Murphy, Sam Horgan, John Forde, Richie Foley.

Ard Scoil Rís: Cian O’Reilly; Cian Murphy, Killian Dineen, Glen Clancy, Liam O’Shanahan; Darragh O’Gorman, Ian Leonard; Matthew Gaule, Rhys Tucker, Ferdia Lyons; Brian Noonan, Will O’Callaghan; Michael O’Callaghan, Sean Hanley, Jack Ward Murphy.

Replacements: Stephen Clery, Oskar Czyszczon, Kevin Danaher, James Hourigan, John Taylor, Jack Hardaker, David O’Byrne, Adam McNamara.

Referee: Richard Horgan (MAR).