Heroic Christians stand firm

CBC Cork 9 Crescent Comprehensive 8: It won’t matter to Christian Brothers College Cork they won a record 29th Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup title by just a point at the expense of unfortunate Crescent Comprehensive.

What counts is they are champions this morning, and they achieved it in impressive fashion in an exciting showpiece at Musgrave Park yesterday. Yes, Crescent produced the only try of the game. Yes, Christians had to defend with their lives in a pulsating last 10 minutes, but this was a victory for hard work and refusal to surrender in testing circumstances.

Christians will thank out half James Taylor, who kept his nerve to knock over three penalty goals — the third a beauty to give his side the lead for the first time.