St Kieran's, Kilkenny 3-14 Cistercian Roscrea 1-7Favourites St Kieran's Kilkenny, experienced little difficulty in advancing to the Leinster Colleges hurling semi-finals when in Portlaoise yesterday they overcame a disappointing Cistercian College, Roscrea.

With wind assistance in the opening half the Roscrea side looked a better team. However, they depended a lot on Austin Murphy, their free-taker who accounted for five of his sides six points in the opening half.

At the interval, Cistercian College led 0-6 to 0-5.

Within five minutes of the resumption, St Kieran's added four unanswered points and then in the space of two minutes Michael Bergin added two goals to end the game as a contest.

Peter Downey replied with a goal for the Roscrea side, but, a minute later, Maurice Nolan added Kilkenny's third goal and, from there to the finish, it was all one-way traffic.

ST KIERAN'S, KILKENNY: J Connolly; D Cody, D Prendergast, N Prendergast; G Hickey, J Tennison, P Butler; J Fitzpatrick (0-5), D O'Neill; J Murphy (0-1), E O'Gorman, D Bergin (0-1); M Nolan (1-4), E Reid (0-2) M Bergin (2-1). Subs: K Lanigan for D Bergin; N McEvoy for M Bergin, J Quane for E O'Gorman.

CISTERCIAN COLLEGE, ROSCREA: K Murphy; M Leahy, B McIntyre, M Mulvaney, A McIntyre, P Downey (1-0), T Breen, C Sheehan, E Lee, B Connolly, A Murphy (0-6), J Connolly, P O'Brien, R Phelan, D Hernon (0-1).

Referee: PJ Leahy (Tipperary).