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<\/a><\/p>\nIt looked like it might be another long night at the GAA\u2019s National Games Development Centre this time with the scores tied closing in on the hour.<\/p>\n
Conaill Higgins then sniped a point for Queens to leave Feargal Logan\u2019s side one up and dreaming of revenge for 2023, as well as a quarter-final spot.<\/p>\n
But a terrific Ruairi Murphy score from distance, earning him an orange flag and two points, swung the game back in UCC\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n
Then, in stoppage time, a free won by UCC was brought up to within tap over range by referee Andrew Smith for dissent and Cormac Dillon did the needful, securing a most dramatic two-point win.<\/p>\n
A game like this can only stand to UCC who are through to the quarter-finals having previously beaten ATU Sligo. Not that that will be of any interest or consolation to Logan\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n
Queens fancied back-to-back wins at the Blanchardstown venue themselves having surprised University of Galway in Round 1 there but were reeled in at the death this time.<\/p>\n
It was a finish worthy of deciding a cracking contest with UCC hitting the interval with a 1-10 to 1-5 lead.<\/p>\n
Michael McSweeney fired 0-5 of that tally for UCC in the first half hour, the midfielder swinging over two two-pointers and a single.<\/p>\n
The UCC goal came from Santry and amounted to a gift as he capitalised on the Queens University goalkeeper taking a wander out of goals and kicked to an empty net.<\/p>\n
That three-pointer cancelled out an earlier Queens goal by Ryan McQuillan, the Antrim man palming home after good work by Donal Scullion in the sixth minute.<\/p>\n
Luke Diamond was on the mark too with a tidy point though it wasn\u2019t until the second-half that the Belfast side really got going.<\/p>\n
Noah Grimes, a star of last year\u2019s All-Ireland U-20 final success for Tyrone, struck 1-2 in the half, and 1-4 overall, while current Tyrone senior Ronan Cassidy weighed in with three points in a row in the closing minutes.<\/p>\n
From trailing by five at the three quarter point, suddenly Queens were right back in it and had momentum on their side again.<\/p>\n
Queens led after the Grimes goal and again after the Higgins score, 2-14 to 1-19.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s when UCC moved up a gear, finding the scores to propel themselves through to the competition\u2019s last eight. Firstly, Kerry senior Murphy knocked over that terrific two-pointer to leave UCC a point up and then Dillon made it a two-point game.<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s A Lee (Dublin); J Clarke (Tyrone), J Finnegan (Antrim), R Forbes (Derry); C Hynds (Antrim), C O\u2019Neill (Tyrone), D Scullion (Down); D Higgins (Derry), A Tohill (Derry); C Higgins (Derry) 0-1, R Cassidy (Tyrone) 0-5 (0-1f), L Diamond (Derry) 0-3; N Grimes (Tyrone) 1-4, M Burnett (Armagh), R McQuillan (Antrim) 1-1 (0-1f)<\/p>\n
Subs L McManus (Monaghan) for Burnett (45); M Ennis (Meath) for McQuillan (50); J Corrigan (Tyrone) for Hynds (52); R Callaghan (Donegal) for D Higgins (60)<\/p>\n
UCC (Cork unless stated A Murphy (Kerry); D Peet, J O\u2019Driscoll, C Gammell; L Evans, C Molloy, C Kenneally; M McSweeney 0-5 (1tpf, 1tp), R Murphy (Kerry) 0-2 (tp); T Cunningham 0-1, E Daly (Kerry) 0-1, J Horgan (Kerry) 0-2; O Corcoran 0-2, C Daly 0-3 (0-1f), C Santry 1-1<\/p>\n
Subs C Dillon (Kerry) 0-2 (0-1f) for E Daly (46); D O\u2019Connor (Kerry) for Gammell (48); D Desmond for C Daly (52); H Aherne for Evans (56)<\/p>\n
Referee A Smith (Meath)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup round 2A Queen\u2019s University, Belfast 2-14 University College, Cork 1-19 THE uneasy sense of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[46086,11979,46087,46088,9,24,63,122,124,123,46089],"class_list":["post-100543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-electric-ireland-he-gaa","tag-football","tag-gaa","tag-gaelic-football","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sigerson-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}