Antrim Intermediate Camogie Championship quarter-finals
Brídíni Óga Glenravel 2-9 Ahoghill 0-8
Ballycastle 0-4 Tír na nÓg 2-17
Dunloy 2-8 Loughgiel 2-5
WINS for Dunloy and Tír na nÓg line them up against each other in the Antrim Intermediate Camogie Championship semi-finals, while Tuesday evening’s winner, Brídíní Óga Glenravel, will face the winner of the remaining quarter-final game, Cargin against Rossa.
Tír na nÓg had got out of Ballycastle a fortnight ago with a two points’ victory in their top of the table league encounter. But the visitors totally dominated the championship tie after a cagey opening quarter.
Fionnuala Kelly pointed early for Ballycastle, but the visitors went ahead 0-4 to 0-2 at the water-break and by half-time Tír na nÓg had opened up a 0-9 to 0-3 lead.
Áine Devlin and Emily Falloon pointed on the re-start before Niamh Martin pounced for the first goal. That score killed and Falloon batted home a second goal soon after as the Randalstown side pushed on for victory.
The tie of the round saw Dunloy surge through with four unanswered points after the second water break to knock out holders Loughgiel who were chasing a fourth successive title.
The close neighbours very evenly matched in general play and in scoring as well, although the accuracy of free-taker Orla O’Neill proved the real difference on the home straight.
By the half-time break it was 1-4 each with Eimear Johnstone scoring the Dunloy goal and Mary McKillen grabbing one for Loughgiel.
The teams had exchanged goals again by the second water break, both long balls in that went all the way to the net for Orla O’Neill from a free and Aoife O’Mullan from play.
That left the holders ahead by just a point, 2-5 to 2-4. But Orla O’Neill popped over four frees for the only scores of the last quarter to hand the Shamrocks their first defeat at this level since 2016.
In the opening game of the week, Brídíní Óga struggled to put away Ahoghill whom they had comfortably beaten in the league encounter a fortnight earlier.
The Glenravel girls led by 0-5 to 0-2 after an uneventful opening half hour on a slippery pitch, Torie Edgar and Aimee Traynor hitting two points each.
Edgar grabbed two goals during the third quarter to put the game beyond Ahoghill who kept in touch with frees from Caitriona Graham.
Glenravel eventually eased to a seven points’ victory and will play the winners of the Cargin v Rossa tie in next weekend’s semi-finals.
The losers of the quarter-finals continue through to the Intermediate Shield.
Tír na nÓg: E Falloon 1-3, N Martin 1-1, Á Devlin 0-6, 0-5 frees, M Hegarty 0-4, C O’Neill 0-2, B Devlin 0-1
Ballycastle: C Hegarty 0-2 frees, F Kelly 0-1, A Toner 0-1.
Dunloy: O O’Neill 1-7, 1-6 frees, E Johnstone 1-1.
Loughgiel: A O’Mullan 1-1, M McKillen 1-0, A Lynn 0-3, T McKinley 0-1.
Brídíní Óga: T Edgar 2-2, E McAleenan 0-3 frees, A Traynor 0-3, S Morrow 0-1.
Ahoghill: C Graham 0-4 frees, N Graham 0-2, Á Graham 0-1, M Downey 0-1.
