Daniel Hurley and Niall Mulcahy ensure Crescent end Rockwell’s reign

Crescent College 17 Rockwell College 5: At this level it’s all about taking your chances and that’s what proved the difference yesterday as Crescent toppled the Munster Schools Senior Cup champions and progressed towards the business end of the competition.

A try in each half, full-back Daniel Hurley going over after 16 minutes to finish off some good work by Daniel Feasey, and John Blake after an effective break by Bailey Faloon down the wing, and Niall Mulcahy scoring in the corner shortly after the break following some sustained pressure by the Crescent forwards, were the crucial scores and those were blows which Rockwell could never recover from.

They did cross the line themselves in the second half, Ben Murray the last man up after an impressive maul which wasn’t the first time the Rockwell forwards had asserted themselves. But they couldn’t add to that single-score tally. The loss of influential flanker Mikey Wilson to an ankle injury shortly before the interval looked at the time a severe blow to the Rockwell’s chances of staying in the 2016 competition, and so it was.