Crescent clash with Glenstal in tantalising quarter-final

CRESCENT College Comprehensive will bid to set up a mouth-watering Avonmore Milk Munster School’s Junior Cup semi-final clash with St. Munchin’s College when they face Glenstal Abbey in their quarter-final replay tomorrow.
Crescent College and Glenstal Abbey played out a three-all draw after extra time when the sides met in their quarter-final clash earlier in the month.
Tomorrow’s quarter-final tie is due to go ahead at Garryowen FC’s Dooradoyle grounds at 3pm.
The winners of tomorrow’s clash is due to face St. Munchin’s College in the semi-final of the Junior Cup on Saturday week, March 7.
Cork heavyweights, PBC and CBC, meet in the second semi-final. The final will take place in Limerick on Wednesday, March 11.
Meanwhile the two semi-finals in this season’s Centenary Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup will take place next week.
Limerick’s sole representatives remaining in contention for top honours, St. Munchin’s College, will face Tipperary side Rockwell College in Clanwilliam on Thursday, March 5.
St. Munchin’s College have won three Senior Cups this decade in 2002, 2004 and 2006.
Cork rivals, PBC and CBC, will clash in the other semi-final a day earlier.
The final of this season’s Avonmore Milk Munster Schools Senior Cup is due to take place at Musgrave Park on Sunday, March 15.
Nine of those involved in Munster’s Magners League win over Edinburgh on Saturday in Musgrave Park are included in the Munster A side that plays Leinster in Waterpark RFC tomorrow (3pm). They include try-scorer Ciaran O’Boyle of Garryowen, Nick Williams and full-back Denis Hurley who all started in the game against Edinburgh.
Munster A: Denis Hurley; Anthony Horgan, Kieran Lewis, Scott Deasy, Ciaran O’Boyle; Jeremy Manning, Duncan Williams; Darragh Hurley, Michael Essex, Timmy Ryan; Dave Foley, Billy Holland; John O’Sullivan, Tommy O’Donnell, Nick Williams.
Replacements: Mike Sherry, Dave Ryan, Ian Nagle, Kieran Essex, Mike Prendergast, An Other, Murray Kinsella.
Meanwhile two Limerick-based players have been named in the Irish AIB Club International XV which takes on an England Counties XV this Friday night in Donnybrook at 5pm.
Ed Torrie, of UL Bohemian is selected at full-back, while Derek Corcoran, of Young Munster, is selected on the left wing.
Talented Limerick back-row forward Barry O’Mahony, currently playing with Dolphin, is named at openside flanker.
Shannon’s prolific point-scoring out-half Tadhg Bennett is listed among the replacements for the game.
And three Limerick players have been selected by Ireland Sevens coach Jon Skurr as part of a 12-man squad for the forthcoming Rugby World Cup Sevens in Dubai.
Conan Doyle, of Garryowen, Eoghan Grace, of Shannon, and Brian Tuohy, of Cornish Pirates, are included in the squad.
Ireland qualified for the finals, which take place in Dubai from March 5 to March 7, by virtue of their performances in the qualifying tournaments in Poland and Denmark last summer.

Colm Kinsella