Good start key to DLS win over Our Lady’s

A BLISTERING start provided the springboard for a second group stage victory for reigning Harty Cup champions De La Salle College at the expense of Our Lady’s CBS (Templemore) at New Inn yesterday.

De La Salle were nine points up after just quarter of an hour and it looked like Our Lady’s were out of their depth. But once they settled they almost matched the champions and were far closer to the winners than the eventual five-point margin suggested.

This second successive group win all but guarantees the champions their place in the knockout quarter-final stage, and victory over pointless Doon CBS in their concluding game will put them into the last eight as a seeded side.