Crescent claim comprehensive cup victory

Crescent College Comprehensive’s stranglehold over the Munster Senior Schoolgirls Cup continued after they routed Ursulines Thurles 5-1 in yesterday’s final at Villiers.

It was the Dooradoyle school’s fourth title in fifth years, a sequence interrupted only when Bandon Grammar beat them on penalty strokes in the 2012 decider, but this was their most impressive and comprehensive success.

Megan Mawhinney had them on the board after eight minutes when she redirected captain Michelle Barrett’s short corner bash to the backboard. That advantage was doubled just before the break when Mawhinney won the ball in her own circle, allowing Jane Kirby and Jenny Clein to engineer a counter-attack that was finished by Aebfhinn Bourke.