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Date Time Competition Season
17 February 2022 3:00 pm Leinster Schools Senior Cup 2021/22

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Wesley grab four tries in win over Roscrea

Wesley College scored four tries as they produced a sensational upset 10-30 victory over Cistercian College Roscrea.

Aran Lowry, Kameron Moran Oran Handley and Jamie Fish crashed over for Wesley College, and Johnny Cazzini contributed 10 points from the boot as Wesley eased to a comfortable win.

The College’s win was even more impressive given they played the majority of the game without influential full-back Matt Golden and captain Dan Campbell, who was stretchered off with a nasty looking injury early on.

Roscrea underwhelmed despite having 10 players in their squad that had represented their provinces or Schools teams, and fly-half Charlie Naughton endured a horror show under the high-ball and from the tee.

'The Wes' raced out of the blocks and crashed over within ten minutes Aran Lowry scored from close range to give the visitors the lead.

A missed conversion and a missed penalty from Johnny Cazzini gave Roscrea a reprieve, but Cistercian struggled to exit their own half and paid the price as Kameron Moran sniped his way over for an opportunistic try. Cazzini converted to make it 0-12 for the Dublin based team.

Roscrea responded emphatically as Iiechi Oji powered over in the corner, but Nocton missed the conversion to leave the hosts seven points down. However, Cazzini cancelled that effort out with a penalty just before the break to send Wesley into the sheds with a 5-15 lead.

Wesley picked up where they left off in the second half as a bit of instinctive play from outside centre Toby Durham flipped the field and forced a turnover inside the Roscrea 22, and Cazzini stretched the lead by an extra three points with the resulting kick to make it 5-18.

Roscrea responded immediately as Ronan Lydon gave the visitors a glimmer of hope to make it 10-18 with in the 46th minute, but that proved to be as good as it got for the Tipperary school. 

Handley raced in unopposed for Wesley’s third try of the day, before Jamie Fish added a late fourth try next to sticks. Cazzini added the conversion to make it a comfortable upset win for Wesley. 

St. Mary’s College

15John Brennan Full-Back
14Zach Hopkins Winger
13Ross Moore Centre
12Evan Moynihan Centre 36', 41'
11Stephen Kennedy Winger
10Daragh Gilbourne Fly-Half 35', 37', 42', 69'
23'
9Gavin Mulvihill 21 Scrum-Half 68'
1Fionn King Prop
2Sean O’Leary 16 Hooker 10'
3Andrew Sparrow Prop 28'
4David Leane Lock
5Luke Policky Lock
6Aaron O’Brien Flanker 70+8'
7Tom McEniff 20 Flanker 34'
8Louis McGauran No. 8
16Mark McHugh 2
17Tiernan O’Shea Prop
18Ruadhan Smyth Prop
19Lucca Jennings Flanker
20Luca Manselli 7
21Conor Tracey 9
22Peter O’Beirne Scrum-Half
23Daniel McNulty Winger

Catholic University School

15Jack Grant Full-Back 70'
14Matthew Clarke 22 Winger 1'
13Rian Treacy Centre 70'
12Stephen Ryan Centre
11Cian Goode 21 Winger
10Harry Lynch 23 Fly-Half 17'
2', 18'
40'
9Garrett Phelan 20 Scrum-Half
1Joseph Lockhart 16 Prop
2Lucas Maguire Hooker
3Conall Lohan Kilraine Prop
4Gavin Deering 19 Lock
5Samuel Byrne Lock
6Hugh Quigley 18 Flanker
7Lucas Sherwood Flanker
8Andrew Tonge No. 8 70+5'
16Evan Judge 1 Prop
17Olliver Manks Lock
18Ruben Maguire 6 Flanker
19Dualta Larkin 4 Lock
20Jack O’Connell 9
21Niall Cox 11 Fly-Half
22Rowan Dowling Mahoney 14
23Sean Byrne 10 Centre

Luke is a final year Journalism student in DCU. He is a Sports Reporter for Wicklow People Sport and FinalWhistle.ie.