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Ballina book their place in the quarter finals


Ballina booked a place in the quarter finals of the Mayo Senior Football Championship on Saturday evening thanks to a comfortable 3-7 to 0-9 victory away to Ballinrobe.
Two months ago, the north Mayo kingpins were staring at the real possibility of exiting the championship at the group stage for the third year in succession but a hard fought home win over Ballaghaderreen and now this powerful display in south Mayo has John Healy's men back on track.
For Ballinrobe, the giant killers of round one, the road ends here. A fine victory away to Ballaghaderreen and a home draw with Knockmore won't be enough.
It was billed as the match of the round but the result was rarely in doubt in this contest. Pat Harte cracked home an early goal from the penalty spot for the visitors and they pushed on scoring four of the next five points to lead by 1-4 to 0-2 after twenty minutes.
Lively corner forward Stephen Healy and the excellent Eanna Casey were crucial to this good spell.
The team were highly charged and playing with no shortage of passion after what must have been tremendously difficult few days for the club with the death of full forward Paul McGarry's mother Bridie this week.
McGarry acquitted himself superbly throughout in the toughest of circumstances.
Ballinrobe were struggling for scores throughout the first half and while they won a decent share of possession they trailed by four when the killer blow arrived for the visitors in first half injury time.
Healy was at the heart of the move that finished with Brian Ruane defecting a pass into the open net for Ballina's second goal and a seemingly unassailable half time lead.
Ballinrobe battled well in the second half but the visitors kept them at bay adding a third goal from Ger Brady late on to round off a fully deserved victory.
Knockmore's 0-15 to 0-9 victory over Ballaghaderreen means the two north Mayo sides advance to the last eight with the 'robe third and the 2008 country champions facing a relegation play off after three defeats.
There was less drama elsewhere. Shurle Glencorrib advanced with relatively little fuss thanks to a fine win on the road against Moy Davitts on a scoreline of 1-12 to 0-6.
They led by 1-5 to 0-3 at half time pulling clear thanks to Brian Murphy's late first half goal.
That score proved the killer blow with Moy Davitts. Both sides finished with 14 men, Mark Ronaldson received a straight red for Shrule while Andrew Malee was sent to the line for a second yellow card.
Castlebar advanced with Shrule/Glencorrib to the last eight as expected with what in the end was a comfortable victory over Aghamore on Saturday evening on a scoreline of 1-15 to 0-7.
However they were made work hard in a low scoring and evenly match first half.
Mitchels led 0-4 to 0-3 at the break but could have been behind.
Aghamore missed a fifth minute penalty Cathal Carty shot was saved well by Ciaran Naughton in the Castlebar goal.
After half time Aghamore drew level but that merely sparked Peter Forde's men into life as they went on a scoring spree that culminated in a terrific goal from Aidan Walsh and saw them notch up 1-6 without reply in just ten minutes.

Results
SFC Section 2
Aghamore 0-7 Castlebar Mitchels 1-15
Moy Davitts 0-6 Shrule/Glencorrib 1-12

SFC Section 4
Ballaghaderreen 0-9 Knockmore 0-15
Ballinrobe 0-9 Ballina Stephenites 3-7


Intermediate Championship

There was no shortage of drama in the Intermediate Championship on Saturday evening either as Tourmakeady and Cill Chomain Gaels advanced to the knockout stages with Hollymount just missing out.
Tourmakeady toppled Hollymount by a solitary point away from home winning 0-7 to 0-6 in a tense battled to complete the group campaign unbeaten. The visitors led by two at half time and kept their noses in front to the end.
However even a victory wouldn't have been enough for the home side as Cill Chomain secured their second win of the campaign in some style at home to Crossmolina winning 6-9 to 1-9 and would have advanced on scoring difference with Tourmakeady had there been a three way tie.
Derek Moran was the hero of the day for the East Mayo side scoring a whopping 4-2 on a productive afternoon to say the least.

Results
IFC Section 2
Hollymount 0-6 Tourmakeady 0-7
CIll Chomain 6-9 Crossmolina 1-9