Impressive Mullins advances at Bauravilla
He won the first tip by 30m and extended his lead with a good second to the cross. O’Donovan missed the cross in two and lofted his third. Mullins pushed almost a bowl in front in reply to that shot. He held that lead by making the rock in seven good throws. He made the bridge in three more.
O’Donovan had a chance to cut the odds there, but instead of rubbing his bowl, hit a sign pole and was stopped dead. That effectively ended his challenge. He held off the bowl of odds in the following shot, but Mullins raised it with his next. He then beat four great bowls from O’Donovan to keep his lead close to a bowl to the finish.
In the Munster Intermediate Championship there were wins for John Shorten and Seamus Sexton Jnr. Shorten beat Trevor O’Meara at Donoughmore. He was almost a bowl in front after four to the bounds. He raised a full bowl after his sixth towards Ring’s corner. He had over a bowl at the wall, but struggled to add to his lead. O’Meara just saved the bowl in the last shot.
Seamus Sexton won by a bowl at Clondrohid after a great contest with Wayne Calnan. There was nothing between them in the first two shots past the mill. They both came close to light with their third shots and Calnan gained a slight advantage with his fourth past the mulch yard. Sexton made the small gate with his next. This gave Calnan a chance to push clear, but he took poor play and just beat Sexton’s tip.
Sexton cut the odds with a good bowl towards O’Leary’s. He followed with another good bowl towards the Black House to edge closer to parity. His next bowl not only made light at the Black House, but it rubbed off the fence and went over the brow. Calnan’s bowl made light too, but it didn’t rub and he was now 40m behind.
That proved costly for Calnan, as he was too far back to make the Bell Inn with his next shot, while Sexton went to full light. Calnan just missed that tip with his following throw to concede a bowl of odds. Little changed past the rock, but Sexton increased his lead past Gough’s lane.
Calnan cut the lead to a level bowl with a brilliant shot to light at the kiln. He got another good bowl to Moore’s farm, which Sexton missed and beat by only 50m with his following shot. Calnan’s gains were lost when he missed light past the novice line. Sexton went out to go almost a bowl in front.
John O’Rourke is in the North Cork Junior A semi-final following his win by almost a bowl of odds over Vincent Kiely at Donoughmore. He led all the way. He had almost a bowl at the bounds. Kiely made a mistake when lofting at Ring’s to fall a full bowl behind. It was still almost a bowl at the wall, but Kiely closed the gap with three great bowls to the end of the straight.
O’Rourke finished strongly though. He got a great bowl to light at the end of the straight and another to the nooks to push almost a bowl clear again and he held that advantage to the line.
Raymond Ryan won the first score in the South West best-of-three final with Ian Callanan at Kilbrittain on Monday. He had a bowl after two shots, which he took to the cross. He lost ground through three poor shots but pulled away again to go almost a bowl clear. Callanan played an exceptional last shot to the line. Ryan’s reply went left, but came off the grass and just beat the line.
In East Cork, Dave Dennis beat Dan O’Connor by a bowl at Clashmore, where he beat the line in an impressive 16 shots.
Aidan Bowen beat David O’Mahony in the last shot in the Jerry Desmond Cup at Kilbrittain. O’Mahony got three great opening bowls and might have made the cross in five but for mistakes with his fourth and fifth throws. They were level at the cross. Bowen bowled well from there, gradually opening up a good lead. O’Mahony kept in the hunt, but Bowen had only 80m to beat with his last throw.
Anthony Gould beat Donal Riordan by well over a bowl in the Flor Crowley Cup at Enniskeane. He was almost to the mill in three and, when Riordan missed light with his fifth, the lead went from one to two bowls. Riordan cut the odds from there, but the second bowl proved too big a handicap.
Emma Fitzpatrick qualified for the Munster senior women’s quarter-final by beating Rose Twohig in the last shot at Ballinacurra. She opened solid odds towards Perrott’s and looked a winner after a good third-last shot. Twohig rallied with a great second last bowl and Fitzpatrick surprisingly missed the line. Twohig played a good last shot too and Fitzpatrick beat it by just three metres off a rub.
Carmel Ryan bowled impressively after a slow start at Killumney where she beat Gretta Cormican by over two bowls in the Munster senior league.
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