James O’Donovan’s remarkable winning run continues

James O’Donovan’s incredible season of success continued at Grange on Saturday when he defeated Michael Bohane in the Willie Whelton Cup semi-final.

Bohane won the first shot, but O’Donovan got a brilliant second to Whelton’s gate to go a shot clear. After Bohane just made sight at the stud farm, O’Donovan went to clear sight to push his lead closer to two bowls of odds. Bohane then missed Holland’s wall and O’Donovan made clear sight to extend his lead. They reached de Barra’s in two more, where O’Donovan’s lead was 20m over a bowl. They both got good shots down the school hill, but neither reached the cross. Bohane deftly curled his next bowl to the middle of Hegarty’s wall. O’Donovan replied with a good loft to keep his lead just over a bowl after eight throws.

Bohane brought the lead under a bowl with a great shot to O’Sullivan’s. O’Donovan hit back with a good bowl up the hill to Hodnett’s farm.