Cross & Passion College ended their season on a high when they won the Shane Mulholland Memorial tournament at St Louis Ballymena, beating St Pat’s Maghera in the final. In a fantastically organised tournament CPC saved their best to last as they hit the high spots when most needed, beating a very good St Mary’s CBS side 2-11 to 4-3 in a great semi-final up on the grass pitch before following that up with a win over Maghera on 4G pitch.
St Pat’s were taken to extra time in their semi-final against the host school St Louis. The Ballymena boys were trailing by a point with time almost up but when a pointed free by Bradley sent the game to extra time. However that was a good as it got for the Ballymena boys as St Pat’s pushed on in extra time to secure a final place.
CPC captain Paudie O’Kane won the toss and decided to play with the breeze in the first half of the final and the Ballycastle school turned around with a six point advantage. A point from O’Kane put them seven ahead and they went eight clear before Maghera got back into contention with a goal. They came very close to grabbing a second goal soon afterwards but were denied by a great save from the CPC keeper. Maghera pushed hard at this stage to save the game but CPC held out to take the title.
