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Rochestown College’s Charlie Hanratty is tackled by Colaiste Spioraid Naomh’s Dave Enright during the O’Callaghan Cup clash at Bishopstown. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n\n O\u2019Callaghan Cup quarter-final: Col\u00e1iste an Spioraid Naoimh 0-28 St Francis College, Rochestown 2-19\u00a0\n <\/p>\n
Col\u00e1iste an Spioraid Naoimh progressed to the semi-finals of the O\u2019Callaghan Cup Cork PPS Senior A Hurling Championship\u00a0after narrowly overcoming St Francis College, Rochestown on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
St Finbarr\u2019s sharpshooter Conor O\u2019Donoghue led his Spioraid Naoimh side throughout, notching 12 points over the hour at Bishopstown GAA 4G.<\/p>\n
However, it was his opposite number, Mark O\u2019Brien, operating at centre forward for Roco, who would grab the opening score of the meeting.<\/p>\n
The Douglas man was on hand to finish to Ciaran Hendrick\u2019s net to get his side going early on and it wasn\u2019t long before he and midfielder Cathal Lowney had Roco five to the good.<\/p>\n
The aforementioned O\u2019Donoghue and Mark O\u2019Brien would then begin their first mini-battle of the afternoon from there.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donoghue broke from a ruck, rose the sliotar, planted his feet and arrowed over his side\u2019s first from near his own dugout.<\/p>\n
He would raise another white flag from a similar area soon after, this time from a free, before the pair would swap further points a minute later.<\/p>\n
Twelve gone, Roco with their noses ahead.<\/p>\n
Another Mark O\u2019Brien point was sandwiched between scores for Spioraid Naoimh midfield pair Stephen Young and Jack Drinan, with the Ballinora hurler\u2019s score coming after a brilliant save by Roco \u2018keeper Noah Duane.<\/p>\n
Mark O\u2019Brien would push the Roco lead out before points from Spioraid Naoimh centre-back Callum Caplice and another from O\u2019Donoghue \u2013 again from long-range \u2013 cut it back once more during a period of Roco wastefulness in front of goal.<\/p>\n
Rochestown College’s Charlie Hanratty is tackled by Colaiste Spioraid Naomh’s Dave Enright during the O’Callaghan Cup clash at Bishopstown. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
From there, Spioraid Naoimh corner-forward James Naughton came to the fore. Four points from the Douglas club man \u2013 coupled with a CJ Barrett score – gave his school a big boost prior to referee PJ Dennehy\u2019s short whistle.<\/p>\n
Jack O\u2019Brien \u2013 impressive throughout \u2013 and the aforementioned Mark, would ensure Roco only went into the interval down three \u2013 0-13 to 1-7.<\/p>\n
Spioraid Naomh started the second period the better. Caplice grabbed his second, O\u2019Donoghue swelled his tally. It gave Spioraid Naoimh a 0-17 to 1-8 lead.<\/p>\n
Roco needed answers, and the O\u2019Briens \u2013 Mark and Jack \u2013 and wing-forward Liam O\u2019Callaghan provided them.<\/p>\n
Fourty gone on the clock, gap back to three.<\/p>\n
Barrett and Daire Lyons would swell the lead but Roco were not easily shaken off, the O\u2019Briens and Ciaran Fitzgerald swinging over to keep their school within touching distance.<\/p>\n
The tit-for-tat nature of the clash was not one for changing, and Barrett and imposing full-forward Neil Crowley answered for Spioraid Naoimh.<\/p>\n
Jack O\u2019Brien would find another score from his midfield berth but Spioraid Naoimh marksman O\u2019Donoghue would again find the necessary accuracy to cancel out any Roco attempt at grabbing the lead.<\/p>\n
A Mark O\u2019Brien goal from a free with five to play would ensure an extremely tight finish, but even though the centre-forward arrowed another couple over the bar late on, scores from Spioraid Naoimh\u2019s James Lombard, O\u2019Donoghue, Crowley and Barrett ensured their school was semi-final bound.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for Colaiste an Spioraid Naoimh: C O\u2019Donoghue 0-12 (0-4f, 1 65), J Naughton 0-4 (0-2f), CJ Barrett, N Crowley (both 0-3), C Caplice 0-2, D Lyons, S Young, J Drinan, J Lombard (all 0-1).<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for St Francis College, Rochestown: M O\u2019Brien 2-9 (1-2f, 165), J O\u2019Brien 0-5, C Lowney 0-2, L O\u2019Callaghan, C Fitzgerald, C Griffin (all 0-1).<\/p>\n
\n COLAISTE AN SPIORAID NAOIMH: C Hendrick (Bishopstown); B O\u2019Brien (Bishopstown), E Barrett (St Finbarr\u2019s), C Walsh (Ballygarvan); D Enright (Inniscarra), C Caplice (Bishopstown), A Cussen (Ballinhassig); J Drinan (Ballinora), S Young (Bishopstown); D Coffey (Bishopstown), C O\u2019Donoghue (St Finbarr\u2019s), D Lyons (Ballinora); CJ Barrett (St Finbarr\u2019s), N Crowley (Bishopstown), J Naughton (Douglas).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C O\u2019Donovan for C Hedrick (HT), J O\u2019Callaghan (Bishopstown) for B O\u2019Brien (40), J Lombard (Ballinhassig) for D Lyons (44), A Reidy (Douglas) for J Naughton (53).<\/p>\n
\n ST FRANCIS COLLEGE, ROCHESTOWN: N Duane (Douglas); P Heavey (Passage), D O\u2019Donoghue (Douglas), J Mouret (Douglas); D Norberg (Blackrock), L Kelleher (Douglas), S Whyte (Passage); J O\u2019Brien (Douglas), C Lowney (Tracton); S O\u2019Keeffe (Douglas), M O\u2019Brien (Douglas, L O\u2019Callaghan (Douglas); C Fitzgerald (Douglas), C Hallahan (Douglas), C Hanratty (Carrigaline).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: C Griffin (Passage) for S Whyte (43), C Dooley (Douglas) and O O\u2019Donovan (Passage) for C Hallahan and C Hanratty (Both 45).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: PJ Dennehy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Callaghan Cup quarter-final: Col\u00e1iste an Spioraid Naoimh 0-28 St Francis College, Rochestown 2-19\u00a0 Col\u00e1iste an Spioraid Naoimh progressed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":["post-68877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877","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=68877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}