Old Crescent escape UCC test with draw

WITH a game in hand on Dolphin and Thomond — the two teams above them in Division Two — Old Crescent remain in prime position for the sole automatic promotion spot to the AIB League Division One.

However, after this turgid affair, they will be hoping they aren’t looking back and wondering where it all slipped away.

“I think they’re going back with their tails between their legs anyway,” was UCC captain Conrad O’Sullivan’s less-than-charitable summary, and as he had been with his kicking for most of the game (he notched three penalties, all the UCC points, but missed a sitter towards the end of the first half), the impressive student outside-centre was spot-on.