Schools Rugby Munster Senior Cup: St Munchins - 13 Crescent College - 0 Two well taken second-half tries by hooker Gerald Slattery saw St Munchin's into the final of the Munster Schools Senior Cup at the expense of their Limerick rivals Crescent at Thomond Park last night.
It was the first time a schools game had taken place under lights and it proved a great attraction, with a fine crowd turning up to enjoy a full-blooded encounter between two keen rivals.
St Munchin's held a decisive edge up front and would have won by a wider margin were it not for poor kicking by their normally reliable outhalf Wayne Murphy.
Murphy did find the target on the half hour to send St Munchin's in at the interval leading by 3-0; but he also failed to take advantage of some gilt-edged opportunities on either side of the half-time whistle.
And it wasn't until the 53rd minute that St Munchin's took advantage of their forward supremacy to create a try for Slattery.
He struck again in the 67th minute to see St Munchin's through to a St Patrick's Day final appointment with either Rockwell or PBC.
ST MUNCHIN'S: J P Hartigan; F Daly, A Ajoung, J Clogan, E Moloney; W Murphy, T Cahill; S Foster, G Slattery, A Cotter, N Keogh, F Walsh (capt), L Mullane, F Cross, D Gardiner. Replacements: B Meade for Keogh (43 mins); M Kinsella for Clogan (61 mins).
CRESCENT: M South; P Carroll, C Aherne, C McInerney, M Hayes; R O'Sullivan, D O'Carroll; R Leonard, L McInerney, P Lally, B Lynch, O Keely, S Keyes, J Seery, D McGuire (capt). Replacements: B Gavin for Aherne (46 mins); M Nicholas for Keyes (50 mins).
Referee: P Fitzgibbon (Munster).
Pertemps Bees caused one of the biggest upsets in professional rugby history by beating the reigning Zurich league champions, London Wasps, 28-24 in the quarter-finals of the Powergen Cup at the Causeway Stadium yesterday. London Irish lost to Newcastle on Saturday.
