St Clare Cup semi-final: St Patrick’s Maghera 3-16 Cross & Passion Ballycastle 1-10

St Patrick’s Maghera booked their place in next week’s St Clare Cup Camogie final when they beat Cross & Passion Ballycastle in Wednesday’s semi-final in Ballymena. Trailing by 0-3 to 0-4 at the end of the opening quarter the current holders fought back and three goals in quick succession from Caoimhe Roche (2) and Gracie Diamond as they went on to lead by 3-6 to 0-4 at half time.

Caoimhe McShane pulled a goal back for CPC early in the second half and Tegan Cassidy added three points to keep their hopes alive and the gap was down to 3-10 to 1-8 at the end of the third quarter. However the Derrry girls finished strongly and powered their way to the final, with Ceala Casey and Caoimhe McGarry in great form.

The second semi-final is this (FRIDAY) afternoon in Bellaghy when St Mary’s Magherafelt are favoured to make it a Derry double when they take on St Louis Ballymena. St Mary’s topped the group after the round robin games over the last two months with Eva Forbes a towering presence at centre-forward.

St Patrick’s: G Diamond 2-3, C Roche 1-2, E Bradley 0-4, E Diamond and R Quinn 0-2 each, E Scullion and R McNally 0-1 each.

CPC: C McShane 1-0, T Cassidy 0-6, C Thompson 0-3, R McMullan 0-1.