Shamrocks and St Loman’s advance

Both Mullingar clubs, St Loman’s and Mullingar Shamrocks, have qualified for the Westmeath SFC semi-finals.

Holders Mullingar Shamrocks cruised to victory over a weak CFCW (Castletown-Finea/Coole/Whitehall) side, 5-13 to 0-12. Shamrocks top Section A on full points. Darragh Daly, Sean Daly, Ciaran Curley and Dylan McDermott (2) grabbed the goals for Shamrocks.

In Section B, St Loman’s got past Coralstown-Kinnegad 2-10 to 0-10, with John Heslin and Shane Dempsey getting the goals in a game where Paul Sharry of St Loman’s and Eamon Fleming of Kinnegad were sent off.

The quarter-final places have yet to be finalised, although Garrycastle took a step in the right direction, easily defeating Killucan 5-17 to 2-6 on Friday, with two goals by Paddy Mulvihill and one each from Dessie Dolan and Matthew Guiheen, along with an own-goal by Francis Boyle.

Tyrrellspass defeated Castledaly 2-13 to 1-10 to move closer to the knockout stages. Dean McNicholas and sub Ciaran Daly scored the Tyrrellspass goals.

The quarter-final slots in Section A remain wide open with surprise team Bunbrosna earning a good draw, 0-10 each, against The Downs.

In the other game in Section A, Athlone defeated Maryland by 0-14 to 0-10.

CFCW and Killucan are now favourites to play off in the relegation match.