A point in the final minute by centre-back David Griffin salvaged a draw for St Francis College in the Simcox Cup (Cork Schools SFC final) under lights in Carrigaline last night.

Pobal Scoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-10 St Francis College Rochestown 1-10

St Francis Rochestown 1-9 Coláiste na Sceilge 2-4

St Francis College Rochestown 3-9 Nenagh CBS 2-8: Tour-de-force performances from Ciarán Cormack and Shane Kingston returned St Francis College, Rochestown to the semi-final juncture of the Harty Cup for a second successive year.

Offaly 1-17 Maynooth University 0-03: Offaly rounded off their O’Byrne Cup campaign in style at O’Connor Park yesterday, winning by 17 points — their largest winning margin since beating Kilkenny in the 2010 O’Byrne Cup.

Laois 1-07 Maynooth 0-18: NUI Maynooth eased to a convincing eight-point win over Laois in Portarlington last night.

O’Byrne Cup

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-9 Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG 1-6

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-14 Midleton CBS 1-08

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-14 Charleville CBS 0-13

St Patrick’s 1-10 Dreadnots 1-08

Cork Premier IHC: Kanturk 0-21 Kilworth 1-16

Kilworth 2-13 Inniscarra 1-12

St Francis College, Rochestown 1-13 Thurles CBS 0-11

St Francis College, Rochestown 5-18 Blackwater CS 1-13

Roslea (Fermanagh) 1-12 Ballinagh (Cavan) 0-11

Ballinacourty 0-12 Stradbally 0-05

Clyda Rovers 0-13 Macroom 0-08

Roslea 1-12 Belcoo 1-09

TG4 LADIES IFC FINAL:

Cavan 1-14 Tipperary 1-12

Cork shot-stopper Elaine Harte has reclaimed the No 1 shirt for Sunday’s All-Ireland ladies’ football decider at Croke Park.

Macroom 3-13 Glenville 1-03

St Michael’s 2-16 Macroom 0-11

Kilworth have been knocking on the Cork IHC door for a few years now and yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn they finally knocked it down.

Kilworth 2-14 Argideen Rangers 0-16

Macroom 2-15 Mayfield 1-4

Kilworth are the first team into the Cork IHC semi-finals after easily beating Fermoy in Ballygiblin last evening.

Gearoid Finn proved the hero for Kinsale on Saturday when he kicked the winning point deep into injury time.

Glenville 0-15 Macroom 0-12(AET)

Former Waterford senior boss John ‘Jackson’ Kiely made a successful return to inter-county management when his side secured victory in yesterday’s Munster JFC quarter-final at the Gaelic Grounds.

After a slow start, St Vincent’s turned up the heat in the second-half of this Cork Premier IFC game at Ballyanley on Saturday, forcing Macroom into a loser’s group meeting with Glenville in round two.

Mayfield won the Tom Creedon Cup, beating hosts Macroom yesterday.

BURREN ran out seven point winners in this feisty Ulster Club Football Championship first round game.

BALLINACOURTY dramatically dethroned title holders Stradbally in a tension-filled Waterford SFC final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

CLYDA ROVERS are just one game away from a third successive Premier IFC final after they overcame Macroom in a dour quarter-final at Donoughmore on Saturday evening.

ACTION aplenty in Ballingeary on Saturday, some superb football too, with Macroom finishing strongly to end Bantry Blues’ ambitions for another season.

RED hot favourites Toomevara overcame a determined Kildangan challenge to capture their 33rd North Tipperary senior hurling championship in Nenagh yesterday.

CORK started well and finished strongly to see their way past Waterford and into the Munster JFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Macroom 0-7 Grenagh 0-6

A 61ST minute pointed free from wing forward Darren O’Sullivan, after star man, Ciaran Keating was fouled, dislocating his shoulder in the process, was enough to see Coláiste Na Sceilge beat wasteful St Flannan’s, Ennis at Glin yesterday to qualify for the quarter-finals.

CLONOULTY-ROSSMORE claimed the spoils in this Tipperary SHC semi-final in Thurles yesterday despite having played second fiddle for long spells to a Kildangan team that has come a long way in a short time.

HE has formed a reputation as a football defender of note during his career but it was on the hurling stage where Owen Sexton was the hero in yesterday’s Evening Echo Cork IHC semi-final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

STAND-IN Cork manager Ger Fitzgerald declared himself “very pleased” with the 2009 Cork hurling panel’s display in last night’s challenge match defeat to Waterford in Mallow.