Winning Start For Schools Junior Cup Holders

Crescent Comprehensive College made a winning start to their Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Junior Cup campaign with a narrow victory over Castletroy College at Rosbrien.

Crescent Comp. 9, Castletroy College 8.
Due to the bad weather the game was switched from Dooradoyle to Rosbrien.
In a closely fought first half skipper Garoid Lyons opened the scoring with a penalty after twenty minutes. Just before half time full back Greg O’Shea kicked two penalties to leave Crescent ahead 9-0 at the interval.
Castletroy came back into the game with a try from Mark McCarthy after ten minutes. Full back Paul Butler closed the gap to the minimum with a penalty but the Dooradoyle College held on for a home quarter final place.

Scorers Crescent Comp: Greg O’Shea 2 pens, Garoid Lyons pen
Castletroy College: Mark McCarthy try, Paul Butler penalty

Crescent Comp: Greg O’Shea; Alan Crean, Jason O’Sullivan, JJ O’Neill, James Beary; Garoid Lyons (capt), Ed Barry; John Touhy, James Green, Liam McMahon; Robbie Scott; Michael O’Donnell; Rory Noone, Jay Kavanagh, Cormac Blake.
Replacements: Mark O’Connor, Cillian Rae, Tim Moloney, Cian Guerin, Lorcan Russell, Jack Hogan, Eoin Harte.
Castletroy College: Paul Butler; John Fox, Cian Malone, Ronan Phelan, Rhys Joyce; Mark McCarthy, Rory Cunningham; Conor Humphries, Robin Sweeney (capt), Adam Ivor Clancy; Jack O’Neill, Robert Larby; Pat O’Kane, Dara Kennedy, Ronan Murphy.