Strong finish sees Murphy into last eight

AIDAN MURPHY won a place in the Munster senior quarter-final when he beat Edmund Sexton by almost a bowl at Baile Bhuirne on Monday evening.

The first five shots to light before Cnoc an Iúir cross were level. Sexton gained an advantage past the cross and was 20m fore after his next to Healy’s. He missed a chance to increase his lead in the next shots, however, but Murphy missed light at the slippery rock giving Sexton a chance to go a bowl in front but again, he failed and with it, went his best chance of victory.

He held the lead in the next three to Murphy’s wall, but hit a bad patch to the novice line to fall a bowl behind.