Crescent College Comprehensive will bid to turn a golden era in Munster into tangible rewards on a national stage, as their hosting of the Kate Russell All-Ireland Schoolgirls Championship gets underway in Limerick today.
Limerick hockey has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and Crescent College Comprehensive provided further proof of the Treaty city’s new prominence with a deserved 3-1 Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final win over Mount Mercy yesterday.
Midleton College provided the shock of the pool stages of the All-Ireland Schoolboys Championships at Ballinteer yesterday, ousting 2007 champions Cookstown HS to provide a Munster semi-finalist in this year’s competition.
Midleton College head into the All-Ireland Schoolboys Championship at Wesley College in Dublin later this month as Munster’s best hope of silverware, after the draw was made earlier today.
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Midleton College ended a two-decade Munster Senior Schoolboys Cup drought in fine style at Garryduff yesterday, resisting a last-ditch fightback to see off Ashton 3-2 in a pulsating tie.
Wesley College claimed their second All-Ireland schoolboy hockey title of the season, but Bandon Grammar and Ashton crash out at the group stage in the John Waring Super Sixes. It has also been an interesting week for the girls of St Angela’s, who bounced back from a cup final defeat to Villiers to win the Senior B league in style.
Crescent Comprehensive’s All-Ireland hopes went up in smoke at Dangan yesterday, as they couldn’t match Coláiste Iognáid or Loreto Kilkenny in Group A.
Two goals in as many extra-time minutes secured a famous victory for Crescent College Comprehensive in an absorbing Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final at Rosbrien in Limerick yesterday.
Mount Mercy will be keen to evoke memories of a golden era in today’s Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final at Rosbrien in Limerick (3pm), but Roisin Upton (pictured) and her Crescent side have ambitions of their own.
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