Despite the appalling conditions St Clement's and Waterpark served up superb rugby in a six-try thriller in the Munster Senior Cup. The home side built up an eightpoint lead with a try from Daniel Jones and a Mike Reidy penalty. Waterpark responded with a two Paul Murphy tries and a Robbie Gaul conversion. St Clement's ran in three second-half tries from Reidy, Brian Fitzgerald and Padraig O'Sullivan with Reidy converting two.
St Clement's: M Reidy; D Jones, J O'Shea, D Nicholas, B Fitzgerald; B Higgins, K Imbusch; D Gleeson, P O'Sullivan, M Adams, W Fitzgerald, A O'Doherty, P Gibbs, A Byrnes, G Ryan.
Waterpark: B Culhane; T Cullen, M Deavy, J Quinn, C Murphy; P Fitzgerald, R Gaul; B Murphy, R Murphy, B Phelan, J Goodwin, B Fitzgerald, J Murphy, P Murphy, C Bowe.
Referee: T Wallace (Munster).
The Bandon-Glenstal match was called off.
Newtown School 24 - Midleton College 3
Newtown School advanced to the Junior Cup quarter-finals when they coasted to a comfortable victory over Midleton College at Newtown. Midleton got off to a dream start when outhalf James Hitchmough landed a penalty after five minutes.
However, two tries from Jamie Evans and one each from, Conor Grant and Stephen Pierce saw Newtown safely through.
Newtown School: N Fearon; G Deacon, W Essex, J Evans, C Grant; R Marsh, R Argent; P Galloway, P O'Connell, E O'Brien, S Pierce, K Kinsella, K Kourilenko, H Kinsella, B Dagg.
Midleton College: R Browne; S McKeown, R Mohally, R Smyth, P O'Donovan; J Hitchmough, L Levis; S Daunt, B Ouers, N Hawes, D Currivan, R Morgan, M Whyte, D ENgland, A Ross.
Referee: G Hughes (Munster).
Munster Junior Cup: Abbeyfeale 5, Intermediate Scool Killorglin 0.
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