Category: Schools

Bandon Grammar School caused one of the shocks of the schoolboys hockey season so far in recording a resounding 4-0 victory over Ashton at the Cork City school in yesterday’s Munster Minor Schoolboys Cup final.

Ashton brought a national schoolboys trophy home to Munster for the first time in seven years after recording a shock success at the John Waring (U14) Super Sixes competition in Lisnagarvey HC yesterday.

Munster U18 hitman Jamie Petch ended his schools hockey career in style as his hat-trick helped Newtown retain the Munster Senior B Schoolboys Cup with a 4-1 final defeat of Villiers.

Bandon Grammar are enduring a tough week on the schools cups front after their senior boys succumbed to Ashton 5-3 while the girls had a chastening opening day at the Kate Russell All-Ireland Championships.

Crescent Comprehensive completed a league and cup double as they comfortably defeated Limerick rivals Laurel Hill Coláiste 3-0 at Rosbrien to claim the Munster Junior Schoolgirls Cup yesterday.

Margins have been fine in this year’s Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup final, and it took sudden death penalty strokes to crown Bandon Grammar as the 2012 champions yesterday.