Bective Rangers through to Leinster semis

Bective Rangers 20 Lansdowne 6

Bective Rangers became the first club to qualify for the Leddin Finance Leinster Senior Cup semi-final following this comprehensive beating of Lansdowne at Donnybrook last night.

The home side were full value for their 12-3 half-time lead with scrum-half Karl Becker sniping away at his former club’s fringe defence.

Full back Tom Sheehy and hooker Anthony Ronan went over for the all-important tries.

Lansdowne were not out of it at that stage and fly-half Andy Tallon added his second penalty to reduce the arrears to 12-6.

It was all to play for until Fergal Campion stroked over a penalty and wing Stephen O’Connor pierced the Lansdowne cover for the third and final time.

Scorers: Bective Rangers: T Sheehy, A Ronan, S O’Connor try each; F Campion pen, con. Lansdowne: A Tallon 2 pens.

BECTIVE RANGERS: T Sheehy; S O’Connor, A Tosh, R Dolan, S Doggett; F Campion, K Becker; B Crowley, A Ronan, D Lillis, J Bolger, D Quinn, D Hall, D Crean, S Murphy. Replacements: N Power for Becker 63 mins.

LANSDOWNE: B O’Mahony; J Smith, J Murphy, W Stafford, F Baynes; A Tallon, S Whelan; E Bohan, M Nathan, K Cleere, A Maher, C Kos, R McArdle, C Pratt, S O’Connor. Replacements: J McMahon for S Whelan 48 mins; M McNamara for O’Mahony 61 mins.

Referee: Des Woods, Leinster Branch.