Claremorris 0-18
Charlestown 1-12
Eoin Horkan
Aghamore
Nine points from Niall Hurley saw the south Mayo side secure a home semi final with fourteen men against Charlestown on Saturday evening in Aghamore.
It was the perfect start for Claremorris as Nall Hurley opened the scoring with a long range two point free.The tie was level when the opposition went down the far end raising an orange flag through Gareth O’Donnell from outside the arc.
The side in blue then created two clear cut goal chances both ended up in white flags from Conor McGuinness before Dara Hurley added a second. Moments later Niall raised a third white flag .
By the ten minute mark the tie had swung again as Paul Towey registered his first long range free before a one-two between him and Matthew Lenehan saw Lenehan firing into the net.
When the quarter hour mark struck Charlestown had a two point gap when Eoin Murphy drove through to fire over the bar.
It was then the turn of the south Mayo side to take control again as Cathal Joyce slotted an effort over before both Hurleys added two pointers Niall from a free and then Dara in between a Towey effort who was having a great battle with Paul Gilmore.
The last seven minutes of the half belonged to Towey as he added three more to his tally in response Hurley added one final point of the half for his side.
This left the scores level at the break.
Playing with the wind in the second half Claremorris got another ideal start with Mark Maloney finding his range before Ben Crean leveled the tie. The side looking for their third win of the group hit a purple patch with D Hurley,Joyce with a two and Maloney slotting a forty-five before N Hurley finished off this scoring spree.
With their championship on the line and the news from Castlebar being updated all the time. The Sarsfields battled back into the tie led by their sharpshooter Towey who slotted over frees with his second one resulting in a second yellow to his marker Paul Gimore.
With four points between the sides going into the last ten minutes it looked like the east Mayo men had all the momentum but a couple of shots from range dropped into the hands of Darragh Fallon.
Final efforts from Hurley and then Towey put three between the sides.
With what was the final play of the game Towey broke through and it looked like a goal was on his mind but a fantastic block from James McCormack ensured victory for his side.
Then the result filtered through from Castlebar with Kilmeena winning meant they would be heading to relegation semi finals instead of the quarter finals.
Claremorris:Darragh Fallon;Mark Noonan,Darragh Fitzpatrick,David Slattery;Paul Gimore,James McCormack,David Hurley;David O’Reilly,Conor McGuiness(0-1);Cathal Joyce(0-3 1 2ptf)),Dara Hurley(0-3 1 2pt),Johnny Cummins Jack Noone,Mark Maloney(0-2 1 45),Niall Hurley(0-9 2 2ptfs).
Subs Used:C Gill for David Slattery (17) D Slattery for Cummins (35),C Cassidy for Noone (45),M Macken for O’Reilly (60),J Stretton for Joyce.
Charlestown:Kenneth Brennan;Tadhg Horkan,Ben Conway,Owen Flannery;Tomas Goldrick,Niall Murphy,Jack Corley;Eoin Murphy(0-1),Thomas Holton;Gareth O’Donnell(0-2 1 2p),Paul Towey(0-7 2fs1 2ptf,Ben Crean(0-1);Ruairí Cullen,Conor McArdle,Matthew Lenehan(1-1).
Subs Used: A Woods for Murphy (21),C Towey for McArdle (48),PJ Dunleavy for Flannery (55)
Referee: Vincent Neary
MOTM
Niall Hurley 9 points he only put two efforts wide but also set up a couple of scores.
He was a constant thorn in the side of Charlestown.
Other mentions
Paul Towey: Scoring seven points nto be overlooked did miss a couple of chances which could have changed the game had a great battle with Gilmore.
Paul Gilmore
Even though he got his marching orders Gilmore helped Towey well was at him from the first minute to the last and should be proud of how he defended against one of the county's top forwards
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