SEAT Schools Junior Cup Quarter-Final Draw

There were wins for CBC, Crescent College Comp and St. Munchin’s today in the first round of the SEAT Schools Junior Cup with the quarter-final draw taking place after the games were completed.

SEAT Schools Junior Cup Quarter-Final Draw

Crescent v Rockwell
CBC v Ardscoil Rís
St. Munchin’s v Castletroy
PBC v Glenstal Abbey

Dates, times and venues for these fixtures to be announced in the coming days with the ties to be played over the 24th, 25th and 26th of February.

SEAT Schools Junior Cup First Round Results

PBC 33-10 Castletroy College – Match report here.
CBC 33-15 Rockwell College
Crescent 25-11 Glenstal Abbey
St. Munchin's 23-21 Ardscoil Rís

CBC 33-15 Rockwell College

CBC beat Rockwell College 33-15 at Landsowne to set up a home tie against Ardscoil Rís in the quarter-final of the SEAT Schools Junior Cup.

CBC will face Ardscoil Rís in the Quarter Finals of the SEAT Munster Schools Junior Cup following their win over Rockwell in the opening round.

CBC captain Ben Roche and prop Luke Masters scored a brace of tries each in the win that gives the Cork school home advantage in the last eight.

Rockwell took a fifth minute lead when Ryan O’Sullivan intercepted a pass before sprinting in to touch down. O'Sullivan added the conversion himself to give his side a 7-0 lead.

Despite playing against the wind, Christians started to dominate and hit back with tries from Finn Burke in the 17^th minute and Roche with JD O’Hea kicking one of the conversions to make it 12-7 to the hosts.

Rockwell were now firmly on the back foot but O’Sullivan’s penalty just before half-time kept them in the hunt.

Two CBC tries in the opening 10 minutes of the second half settled the contest as Luke Masters crossed twice within eight minutes to break the Rockwell resistance.

O’Hea kicked both conversions and then added the extras after Roche’s second try on 48 minutes made it 33-10.

Rockwell were down but not out and hit back through a late Oisín Mangan try but they will have to travel for an away quarter-final against Crescent in three weeks’ time.

CBC: Daniel Galvin; Sam Casey, JD O'Hea, Eoghan Barrett, Conor Shalloe; Robert Hedderman, Colin Sisk; Luke Masters, Daniel O'Connor, Robert Loftus; Eamonn Doyle, Anthony Ryan; Ronan Barry, Finn Burke, Ben Roche (C).
Replacements: Liam McCarthy, Charlie Rasmussen, Paul Harrington, Scott Buckley, David Dillane, Eoin Moloney, Seán Lynch, Jack O'Riordan.

Rockwell: Mark Heffernan; Ryan O'Sullivan, Maurice O'Sullivan, Joe McCormack, Jake Flannery; Oisín Mangan, Paddy Murchen; Alex Marshall, Tom Russell, James O'Meara; Hector Depanion, Robert Burke; Conal Kennedy (C), Jack harney, Chris Egan.
Replacements: Brendan Ryan, Ciaran Ryan, Conor forrest, Andrew Daly, Joe Dwan, Joey O'Connor, Ryan lamb, Jack Barlow.

Crescent Comprehensive 25 – 11 Glenstal Abbey

by Cormac Liddy

Crescent turned on the style in a hugely entertaining SEAT Schools Junior Cup tie at Dooradoyle. They scored three tries and were unlucky to put a foot in touch to deny them a fourth just at the end.

Both teams moved the ball about impressively in the first half and both went close to tries. But the opening score went to Crescent when prop David Nevin touched down in the corner. Glenstal hit back when winger Leon Broderick rounded off a nice bit of play with a splendid try.

Two penalties by fly-half Ben Healy had Glenstal in front but a superb try by man of the match John Hurley and another by the outstanding Tommy O'Hora won it for Crescent.

Though he missed a penalty from just to the left of the posts Hurley compensated by being on target with two other penalties and he also added a second conversion.

Crescent Comprehensive: C Cusack; J Hurley, T O'Hora, N O'Sullivan, C Phillips; M Fenton, A Cosgrove; D Nevin, E O'Halloran, C Dennehy; F Coleman, P King; K Maloney, J Hennessy, D Feasey.
Replacements, D Shaw-kelly for Hennessy, S Burton for Coleman, B Leahy for Nevin, S Faloon for King.

Glenstal Abbey: R Quinn; A Walsh, B Moloney, J O'Mahony, L Broderick; B Healy, A Egan; P Mullig, G Downing, E Bergin; D O'Donovan, J Fitzgerald; E Callaghan, C booth, M Fleming.
Replacements P Prendergast for Berhin; D Kelly for Fitzgerald, A Hogan for Broderick, J Fehily for O'Mahony, W McAleese for Egan, R Leahy for Callaghan, M Walsh for O'Donovan.

St. Munchin's 23 – 21 Ardscoil Rís

St. Munchin’s produced a magnificent comeback in a compelling 23-21 win over Ardscoil Rís at Grove Island in the first round of the SEAT Schools Junior Cup.

Ardsoil Rís led early on through a Brian Noonan try with captain Craig Casey converting and their excellent start continued when John Taylor crossed with Maurice Noonan landing the conversion to make it 14-0 after less than 10 minutes.

Munchin’s rallied and a converted try by scrum-half and captain Evan Maher was converted by Killian Markham to make it 14-7.

It looked like Ardscoil were cruising into a home quarter-final when they scored their third try through out-half Darragh O'Gorman with Noonan spot on once again as the scoreboard moved to 21-7 in their favour. A Markham penalty late in the first half made it 21-10 at the interval as Munchin's hung in there.

Two more Markham penalties reduced the gap to just five points and the comeback was completed late on when Tom Harrington crossed under the posts after a superb move. Markham added the vital extras to secure a magnificent victory and a home quarter-final against Castletroy.

St. Munchin's: Conal Broderick; Koprey Brown, Jordan Curry, Jazz Pendejito, Shane Murphy; Killian Markham, Evan Maher (C); Mark Crowe, Shane Ryan, Mark O'Driscoll; Paddy Kelly, Alex Casey; Jake Murphy, Ben Shanahan, Shane Kelly.
Replacements: Kelvin McInerney, Evan kelly, Seán Naughton, Ryan Duggan, Evan Sheehan O'Donnell, Tom Harrington, Adam Lyons, Liam Clancy, Adam Duggan, Nathan Morris, Ross Walsh.

Ardscoil Rís: Cian O'Rahilly; Maurice Noonan, Glen Clancy, Cian Murphy, Adam McNamara; Darragh O'Gorman, Craig Casey (C); Mathew Gaule, Aaron Walshe, Ferdia Lyons; Roy Whelan, Brian Noonan; John taylor, Cameron Crowe, Luke Clohessy.
Replacements: Ian Cullen, Rhys Tucker, Jack Ryan, Niall O'Donoghue, Sean Hanley, Michael O'Callaghan, Michael O'Gorman, Colin Shiels.