Impressive Mullins advances at Bauravilla

CHRISTY MULLINS gained a place in the Munster senior championship quarter-final with an impressive win over James O’Donovan at Bauravilla on Sunday.

He won the first tip by 30m and extended his lead with a good second to the cross. O’Donovan missed the cross in two and lofted his third. Mullins pushed almost a bowl in front in reply to that shot. He held that lead by making the rock in seven good throws. He made the bridge in three more.

O’Donovan had a chance to cut the odds there, but instead of rubbing his bowl, hit a sign pole and was stopped dead. That effectively ended his challenge. He held off the bowl of odds in the following shot, but Mullins raised it with his next. He then beat four great bowls from O’Donovan to keep his lead close to a bowl to the finish.