Carrickmore are through to the senior championship quarter finals following a hard fought victory over Greencastle on Friday night at Healy Park.
In an entertaining first half Carrickmore led by six points with twelve minutes of the half remaining with Caolan Daly, Johnny Monroe, Mark Donnelly and Martin Penrose all bagging fine scores. However the accuracy of Cahir Mc Cullagh and a quality score from Danny Tuohey kept Greencastle in the race. Indeed had Mc Cullagh and Mark Carson shown a bit more composure from placed balls the half time score could have been much closer than the 0-8 to 0-5 lead Carrickmore enjoyed.
Greencastle came out in the second period in determined mood scoring four of the first five points of the half to level the game at nine apiece. Martin Penrose and Mark Carson swapped scores before Carson and Cahir Mc Cullagh were wide from placed balls. However Greencastle will look back on this one as an opportunity lost having recorded sixteen wides over the hour.
Driven on by Conor Gormley and Barry Daly the favourites pushed for home outscoring Greencastle six points to one in the closing twelve minutes to win 0-16 to 0-11. Sean Loughran, Barry Daly and Paul Mc Aleer were the men whose points sealed the win for Carrickmore. They will now face the winners of the Clonoe v Omagh game which takes place on Sunday night.
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