Schools Senior Cup | Ardscoil Rís Advance With Comeback Over Castletroy

An impressive recovery by Ardscoil Rís at Thomond Park saw them advance to the semi-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup.

Castletroy opened the scoring with a try from Michael O’Halloran after 10 minutes and Sean Madden converted. Madden added a penalty three minutes later to give Castletroy a 10-0 lead.

Ardscoil got back in the game just before half-time with a great try from Daniel Okeke which was converted by Alex O’Halloran to leave the half time score 10-7 in favour of Castletroy.

Half-time: Ardscoil Rís 7-10 Castletroy

Ardscoil took control in the second-half with an early try from James Hourigan converted by O’Halloran.

It was 21-10 after 51 minutes, Lochlainn O’Keeffe scoring Ardscoil’s third try and O’Halloran added the extras.

A great display by Ardscoil saw them add further tries from O’Keeffe, Hourigan, Killian Dineen and John Salmon with O’Halloran and John Moloney adding conversions.

Cillian Toland scored a late try which Madden converted.

Full-time: Ardscoil Rís 45-17 Castletroy

Ardscoil Rís: Lochlainn O’Keefe; Eoghan Collins, Killian Dineen, Alex O’Halloran, John Salmon; John Moloney, Ian Leonard; Alex Long, James White, Oskar Czyszczon; Will O’Callaghan, James Hourigan; Stephen Clery, Jack Ward Murphy, Daniel Okeke. Replacements: Darragh Dineen, Josh Moore, Kevin Danaher, Cian O’Reilly, Gearoid Power, Cian Moloney, Rory Desmond, Jack Barry.

Castletroy College: Andrew Shanahan; Louis Cunneen, Sam Hanrahan, Jason Aylward, James Lammond; Sean Madden, Michael O’Hanrahan; Jason McCormack, Kieran O’Shea, Robert Magill; Cillian Toland, John Moloney; Sean Quirke, Cian White, Dylan McMahon. Replacements: Dean McGinn, Sean O’Shea, Samuel Den Dikken, Ronan Kiely, Jamie McNamara, Paul Ross, Rory Murphy, Nesta Nyamakazi, Evan O’Halloran.

Referee: Eoghan Cross (MAR).