Munchin’s turn on power to reach final

St Munchin’s College celebrated a thoroughly deserved Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup semi-final victory over Presentation Brothers College Cork with gusto at Temple Hill yesterday to clinch a place in the March 19 decider against Rockwell College.

Injury-struck Presentation lost key players over the last few weeks and suffered another major blow before kick off when star flanker Paul Derham was forced out with back trouble.

The disruption of the forward unit against a magnificently drilled and powerful St Munchin’s pack proved too much for the Cork team, who suffered in the set-pieces and had little answer to a quality maul that would have done justice to many more experienced teams.