SEAMUS HAYES played a true captain’s part as he inspired Courcey Rovers to a sensational second-half comeback and helped provide them with a passage to the Evening Echo Cork County Premier IHC semi final at the Jack Barrett Memorial Park, Kinsale last night.

COACH Steve Ford made no excuses following Dolphin’s AIB League defeat to Cork Constitution at Temple Hill last week. A week on, a rematch at the same venue (2.30pm), and with a place in the league final at stake, neither is he about to start.

CORK CONSTITUTION had to peak twice before shaking off the determined challenge from old rivals Shannon at Temple Hill on Saturday to enhance their position at the head of the AIB League table.

THE club match of the day will be at Temple Hill this afternoon (2.30) when Shannon take on arch rivals Constitution in a top-of-the-table AIB League clash.

IT’S a pity those who bemoan the demise of the club game weren’t in Dubarry Park on Saturday afternoon.

SHANNON’S season took a further dip at Temple Hill on Saturday when old rivals Cork Constitution had an easier passage than expected to the AIB Cup quarter-finals.

MOST of the drama was crammed into the final few minutes of this AIB League 1A derby at Musgrave Park on Saturday.

Munster 19 Sale Sharks 17

Courcey Rovers 2-15 Mallow 1-10

Nemo Rangers 1-10 Killavullen 0-7

Ballinora 2-8 Killavullen 0-10

TODAY’S Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup final (Dooradoyle, 3pm) between Castletroy College and Christian Brothers College (CBC) could well be billed the second David and Goliath clash of the tournament.

CBC CORK booked their place in the Avonmore Munster Schools Senior Cup final with a hard-fought victory over gutsy Glenstal at Clanwilliam yesterday.

Cork Harlequins 2 Lisnagarvey 1

St. Catherines 1-11 Courcey Rovers 1-8

Pallasgreen 1-9 Bruree 0-9

JUST one game in the permanent tsb Cork County SFC over the weekend where a superb opportunist goal by former inter-county player Pat Hegarty proved crucial as Carbery overcame Ballincollig 1-9 to 0-9 at Clonakilty.

A SEASIDE walk on Tuesday ended in disaster for Leinster’s James Norton, when he fell and cracked his hip in Dun Laoire.

Aghabullogue 1-12, Courcey Rovers 2-8

Ballinacourty 1-7

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN, who recently announced he was quitting football to concentrate on hurling, will miss Cork’s Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park on Sunday because of a groin injury.