Cork Con’s second-half surge sweeps Highfield away

Highfield 6 Cork Constitution 57: Cork Constitution produced a scintillating second-half performance to sweep Highfield aside in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Cup, first round clash at Woodleigh Park.

The holders found themselves in a battle throughout the opening half but broke clear with a hat-trick of tries within 12 minutes of the restart and the result was never in doubt thereafter. The gap in divisions was apparent in the power and pace Con produced throughout that second-half as they ran in eight tries, two of them excellent efforts from classy young scrum-half John Poland.

Highfield coach Tim Ryan was bitterly disappointed admitting: “It’s hard to play against that, Con seem to get all the players, everyone goes to them. I suppose you can see why, they’re a very good team. Fair play to them, but from our own point of view our attitude wasn’t good enough on the day.