St Martin’s end Naas hopes while Kilcormac-Killoughey hold off brave challenge from St Mullins
Joe Coleman celebrates with Rory O'Connor after St Martin's victory over Naas in the Leinster SHC quarter-final at St Conleth's Park in Newbridge. Photograph: Tom Maher/InphoThere was a sensational outcome in the Leinster club hurling quarter-final in Mullingar where Castletown-Geoghegan defeated Thomastown by 11 points.
Castletown-Geoghegan had a golden period before the 22nd and 27th minutes during which they outscored their opponents by five points to one . The sides were level at the half-hour mark, with a Connellan point in injury-time edging Thomastown ahead by 1-10 to 0-12 at the interval.Farrell’s sending off came just a minute after the resumption of play and it gave Castletown-Geoghegan an added boost and they deservedly led by 0-19 to 1-12 at the end of the third quarter.
The Wexford champions, benefiting perhaps from a higher quality local championship, always looked the likelier winners. But they found it hard to shake off the six-in-a-row Kildare champions, semi-finalists in the province in each of the last two years, until a penalty two minutes from time from Jack O’Connor finally gave them breathing space.
Shortly after that Rory O’Connor missed his first free of the afternoon, and with the exchange become increasingly feisty hopes of an upset grew among the locals. Corner back Harry Carroll replied and Sheridan added another free but Joe Coleman had the last word with an injury-time free as St Martin’s deservedly advanced to a semi-final meeting with Na Fianna.C Gallagher; H Carroll , R Hogan, P O’Donoghue; R Boran, R Kelly, K Whelan; D Guerin, J Burke; C Dowling, C Boran , S Leacy ; B Byrne, J Sheridan , F O’Sullivan .
The Carlow side struggled. Marty Kavanagh scored a point from play but it was mainly one-way traffic in favour of the visitors. St Mullins eventually got into the game and were rewarded with points from their intercounty players Conor Kehoe, Kavanagh and James Doyle. At the break, Kilcormac-Killoughey led 1-8 to 0-5.
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