Danske Bank Leonard Cup – Ulster Colleges Hurling

St Louis 5-12 Cross & Passion 2-20

A storming finish which saw them score three goals and two points in the last six minutes of play earned St Louis, Ballymena a shock win over Cross & Passion College, Ballycastle in Monday’s thrilling Leonard Cup semi-final at Fr Healy Park Loughgiel. Red hot favourites CPC led by seven at half time and though their scoring dried up a bit during the second half they still appeared to be well on course when John Og Darragh got their second goal and Paidi O’Kane and Cahir McCloskey tagged on points. However with Loughgiel star Joe Casey leading the line St Louis began to claw their way back and points from centre back Oisin O’Brien and corner forward Eoin Lorcan-Bradley gave them a glimmer of hope.

The real comeback started on fifty-six minutes when Casey, who was now on the edge of the square, fired home from close range and when Dylan McMullan came up from full-back to add a point the pressure began to tell. Two minutes from the end of normal time Lorcan Martin pulled a ground shot to the net to leave just two between the sides. When Killian Cassidy came back with a CPC point in the first minute of injury time to stretch that lead to three it looked like the CPC would hold on, but Casey completed his hat-trick with a goal from an almost impossible angle to tie things up three minutes into injury time.

Extra time appeared the most likely outcome at this stage but St Louis were now ruling the roost and Cody McGarry won possession from the poc-out and sent over the winner to book his team a place in the final.

ST LOUIS

          1.Harry McKay

          2.      Harry McQuillan

          3.      Dylan McMullan

          4.      Fergus Maguire

          5.      Joe O’Hara

          6.      Oisín O’Brien

          7.      Thomas McGarry

          8.      Joe Connolly

          9.      Cody McGarry

          10.    Niall Duffin

          11.    Joe Casey

          12.    Cayden Doherty

          13.    Eoin-Lorcan Bradley

          14.    Harry Blaney

          15.    Eoghan McCormick

Subs used:

Lorcan Martin, Cillian Gillespie

CPC

1 Liam McClelland

2 Pearse McMullan

3 Cormac Bailey

4 Iarla O’Kane

5 Ronan McGarry

6 Cahir McErlean

7 Lorcan Murtagh 0-2

8 Paidi O’Kane 1-2

9 Tom Richmond

10 Killian Cassidy

11 Damian Laverty 0-11

12 Cahir McCloskey 0-3

13 Ollie Joe McAlonan 0-1

14 John Og Darragh 1-0

15 Ronan Elliott

Subs used

Fergus McAuley

Dara McShane

Martin Maynes

Kevin Og McGarry

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