Electric Ireland Ulster MFC Quarter-Finals<\/p>\n
Cavan 2-23 Armagh 1-6<\/p>\n
Donegal 2-16 Monaghan 2-15<\/p>\n
Cavan and Donegal got the better of Armagh and Monaghan respectively in the Electric Ireland Ulster MFC quarter-finals, with holders Tyrone and Derry awaiting in the last four.<\/p>\n
Donegal staged a sensational comeback as they fought back from 12 points down to defeat Monaghan by 2-16 to 2-15 in a thriller at Convoy, with Finn Gillespie emerging as the hero with a last gasp winning point.<\/p>\n
Luke Kelly shot the visitors into an early lead, but scores from Thomas McHugh and Danny Og Cooney edged Donegal ahead.<\/p>\n
The lead didn\u2019t last long, as the visitors powered forward again, Mickey Doogan Burke on target, before Alex McGinnity drilled home a 13th minute goal for a five points advantage.<\/p>\n
They continued to press strongly, with Doogan Burke landing a two-pointer and Cormac Kelly also on target.<\/p>\n
Doogan Burke broke through for a second Farney goal just before the break, giving his side a 2-9 to 0-5 advantage at the turnaround.<\/p>\n
The home side set about chipping away at a huge deficit with scores from Callum Dorrian and MJ Ward.<\/p>\n
Mark Anthony McGuinness turned the game on its head with two goals, before Darragh O\u2019Hare landed a two-pointer and an equalising free.<\/p>\n
It was Gillespie who completed the escape act with a brilliant winner in the dying moments.<\/p>\n
At Crossmaglen, Cavan proved too strong for the Orchard lads as they coasted to a 2-23 to 1-6 victory.<\/p>\n
Cavan seized control early on, buoyed by a Daire McCrystal goal after just six minutes.<\/p>\n
They had 1-8 on the board before Armagh managed their first score, with Zach Byrne and Jay Graham both sending over two-pointers.<\/p>\n
Oliver Clarke and another handful of scores from Graham piled the agony on the home side, before they got off the mark in the 17th minute through Conor Barry.<\/p>\n
Graham, Jack Forde and Jake Brady extended the Breffni lead before Barry responded with his second, Cavan ahead by 1-11 to 0-2 at the interval.<\/p>\n
Graham\u2019s accuracy helped to pile on the scores, with McCrystal and Jake Brady adding points, before Armagh pulled back a 50th minute goal through Oran Leneghan, followed by a Cahir Vallely point.<\/p>\n
But star man Graham put the outcome beyond doubt with his side\u2019s second goal four minutes from the end.<\/p>\n
Luke Kelly shot the visitors into an early lead, but scores from Thomas McHugh and Danny Og Cooney edged Donegal ahead.<\/p>\n
The lead didn\u2019t last long, as the visitors powered forward again, Mickey Doogan Burke on target, before Alex McGinnity drilled home a 13th minute goal for a five points advantage.<\/p>\n
They continued to press strongly, with Doogan Burke landing a two-pointer and Cormac Kelly also on target.<\/p>\n
Tyrone will play Cavan in next Saturday\u2019s semi-final, with Derry taking on Donegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Ulster MFC Quarter-Finals Cavan 2-23 Armagh 1-6 Donegal 2-16 Monaghan 2-15 Cavan and Donegal got the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-452157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}