Teams Announced for PBC v CBC

Tomorrow sees the meeting of old rivals Christians and Pres at Irish Independent Park (KO 2pm), with the Sydney Hill side looking to close a large 13-title gap behind the Mardyke outfit.

Christians’ first round game was a thriller, drawing 15 apiece with Crescent, with the Cork club progressing on the first-try rule.

The Sydney Hill outfit look like a side gaining in confidence, after their aforementioned first-try victory against Crescent, the Corkonians avenged the defeat of their Senior side to Ardscoil Rís with a self-assured 30-8 win against the Limerick outfit. Aaron Leahy, Leo Daly, Conor Lavin and Robbie Shalloe all grabbed tries with CBC looking a force ahead of their city clash.

Standing in their way is Pres, who have had an altogether more complicated route to the penultimate stage. A hugely entertaining first-round match in Garryowen against Ardscoil saw the Corkonians run in three tries on the way to a 23-17 win.

The quarters saw them pitted against St Munchins, and having lead 5-0 and had a try disallowed in the first game, the tie was refixed following unprecedented injury circumstances to three St Munchin’s players. In the second game Pres struggled against a strong Munchin’s side in the first-half, but opened the scoring with a Michael Hand on the half-hour mark to give them a 7-0 half-time lead.

The second-half saw the hosts score a crucial second through Joe O’Leary, which Alex Walsh converted again to make it a two-score game, and after a Munchin’s rally which saw Conor O’Shaughnessy touch down on the left-flank, Pres sealed the tie in the dying embers, as Richie Foley pounced on a mistake in the Munchin’s lineout to cross the line.

​Presentation Brothers College Junior Cup Squad to face CBC

1. Darragh Mcsweeney
2. Billy Kingston
3. Chris Morris
4. David O’Halloran
5. Micheal Giltinan
6. Jack Kelleher
7. Richie Foley ©
8. Alex Kendellan
9. Joe O’Leary
10. Alex Walsh
11. Jeff Holden
12. Darragh O’Sullivan
13. Michael Hand
14. Conor Morey
15. Darragh French

Replacements from: 16. Dylan Devlin, 17. Michael Hayes, 18. Tom Gough, 19. Tim Buckley, 20. John Forde, 21. James Keohane, 22. Daniel Hurley, 23. Colin Doyle, 24. Sam O’Sullivan, 25. Tadhg O’Sullivan

Christian Brothers College Junior Cup Squad to face PBC

1. Alex O’Regan
2. Sean Rall
3. Mark Donnelly ( V Captain )
4. Robbie Kelleher
5. Mark McCarthy
6. Finn MacFhlannchadha
7. Ronan O’Sullivan
8. Conor Lavin
9. Mark O’Connor
10. Cian Whooley
11. Aaron Leahy
12. Leo Daly
13. Harry O’Riordan ( Captain )
14. Mark Buckley
15. George Coomber

Replacements from: 16. Robert Horgan, 17. David Shanahan, 18 Brian O’Donnell, 19. Patrick McBarron, 20. Bobby Kahn, 21. Andrew Cremin, 22. James Moylan, 23. Jack Ryan, 24. Robbie Shalloe, 25. Patrick O’Hara.