Blackwater awaken late to surge home

THIS all-Waterford Dr Harty Cup Munster Colleges hurling tie at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday may not have been a classic, but it was a feisty and no-nonsense local derby that ended in a deserved victory for Lismore’s Blackwater Community School.

A second successive defeat has ended the aspirations of De La Salle to regain a trophy they won in successive seasons in 2007 and ’08.

They led for the greater part of the game but were eventually overtaken by Blackwater in the closing quarter.