Colleges Hurling Leinster quarter-final/Castlecomer 1-10 Cistercian Roscrea 1-8: Cistercian Roscrea's run in the Leinster Colleges senior hurling championship was ended by Castlecomer CS in Portlaoise yesterday.
Castlecomer got off to a great start when, in the first minute, Colin McGrath's free spun into the net, and they went on to build a 1-6 to 0-3 half-time lead.
On the change-over Roscrea improved greatly but they wasted a lot of scoring opportunities.
Ten minutes from time they were thrown a lifeline when Niall Minnock fired to the roof of the net. Points followed from Jonathan Cody and Eoin Madigan and when goalkeeper Tom Delaney pointed a free from 70 metres two minutes from time the margin was down to two, but they couldn't bridge the gap.
CASTLECOMER CS: G Delaney; A Moran, J Morrissey, C Fogarty; E Hickey, O Walsh, P Boran; K Mooney (0-2), B Dillon; N Darcy, M Murphy (0-1), T Breen (0-1); E Dwyer, C McGrath (1-6), C Maher.
CISTERCIAN ROSCREA: T Delaney (0-1); P Burns, M Delahunt, E Vaughan; J Cody (0-1), C Pardy, D Nash; P Breen, C Herlihy; S Hennessey (0-4), E Madigan (0-1), J Carroll; N Enright, R Shanahan (0-1), N Minnock (1-0).
Referee: F Deveraux (Dublin).
