Christy McNaughton turned in a shocking solo present in scoring 1-15 of Cushendall’s 1-21 when beating St John’s who landed 1-16 within the Antrim Senior Hurling Championship.
From the third minute, when he blazed a penalty to the Johnnies internet, McNaughton underlined his standing as a finisher supreme by scoring eight factors from play and 7 from frees.
But regardless that McNaughton’s silken expertise embossed the competition, St John’s provided stout resistance. Certainly after they led by 1-8 to 1-7 at one stage it seemed as if they could have a shock up their sleeves.
Conor Johnston’s aim had achieved a lot to fireside up the west-Belfast facet, however Cushendall managed to exert appreciable affect within the closing section of play with McNaughton a dominant power.
Ballycastle, in the meantime, loved a scoring spree on the expense of Carey Faughs in romping to a 5-26 to 0-13 victory. Mickey Buff (2), Lorcan Donnelly, Tiernan Swift and James McLister shared within the winners’ goal-fest.
And it was a Conor Crafty aim that helped to cement Dunloy’s second-half dominance over O’Donovan Rossa after the north-Antrim facet had led by 0-12 to 0-6 on the break earlier than they emerged 1-17 to 0-6 winners.
Slaughtneil are nonetheless heading in the right direction for his or her tenth consecutive Derry Senior Hurling title following their emphatic 2-28 to 0-8 win over Ballinascreen. A Shane McGuigan aim helped Slaughtneil to get into their stride and with Cormac O’Doherty pulling the strings from midfield, McGuigan, together with Jack Cassidy, Ruairi O Mianan and Gerald Bradley ensured that the scoreboard stored ticking over.
Kevin Lynch’s had been pushed all the way in which earlier than managing to crawl over the road in opposition to a brave Swatragh outfit. The Dungiven facet gained by 0-17 to 0-16 with John Mullan, Niall Ferris and Richie McMullan heading their listing of scorers in what was a good contest.
Within the Down Senior Hurling Championship, Bredagh stepped as much as the plate in model in overcoming Ballygalget by 3-17 to 1-18
The south-Belfast facet led by 2-10 to 0-8 on the half-way stage, Matt McAreavey, Donal Hughes and Aodhan Donaghy grabbed their targets with Sean Hughes racking up seven factors whereas Cormac Coulter top-scored for the losers with a powerful 1-9.
Ballycran had all of it their very own means in opposition to Newry Shamrocks in successful by 4-21 to 0-10. Liam Savage, Brett Nicholson, James Clarke and Stuart Martin scored their targets whereas Scott Nicholson landed 0-9 (5 frees).