CPC 6-18 St Louis 0-6
Ulster Colleges Hurling – Mageean Cup – Round Robin 1
Cross & Passion College 6-18 St Louis Ballymena 0-6
The opening round of the Mageean Cup turned out to be a damp squib at Fr Healy Park, Loughgiel on Tuesday as holders St Louis and their north Antirm rivals Cross & Passion College fielded badly understrength teams due to forthcoming club championship games, the Under 17 Hurling final between Loughgiel and Dunloy on Saturday week and this weekends Under 19 hurling semi-finals.
St Louis were short up to a dozen of their starting line-up while CPC were not far from that number as well, but the Ballycastle school showed that they probably have more strength in depth as they scored a resounding win.
St Louis started well enough and were level ont two points apiece after four minutes but once CPC got in for their first goal the gap began to widen and by half time they were 1-11 to 0-4 to the good, the goal coming from full forward Conor Donnelly.
Playing with the breeze at their backs in the second half it looked like St Louis might still be in the game, but four early points from CPC showed that this would not be the case. The goals began to flow as well for the Ballycastle school with Connor Donnelly adding two more to his total (he ended with 3-6), while centre forward Darragh Kelly plus substitutes Anthony Mullan and Liam Magee also got in on the act. Kelly also added three points, as did Ronan Casey while Aidan Richmond and Caeden Crawford got two.
