Fives on scoring spree for Blackwater College

IF Blackwater College lose out to St Caimin’s of Shannon on scoring difference for a place in the play-off stages of this year’s Harty Cup (the Clare school play Our Lady’s of Templemore today), then they can surely curse Doon CBS keeper Colm Cummins.

With a massive scoring difference (over 30 points) between the teams coming into this, the final round-robin series of matches, the Lismore side needed to win by as much as possible to keep their hopes alive; well, they managed to win by 20 points, but now they are left hoping St Caimin’s lose by at least 15 – slender hope indeed.

Were it not for the heroics of Cummins, however, that margin would now be much slimmer, perhaps reduced to zero, because on least five occasions – four in the second half alone, when Blackwater College were utterly dominant – the Doon keeper denied Blackwater what looked certain goals. Rubbing salt into Lismore wounds, this was Colm’s first start in goals: he’s normally a wing-back!