Loughmore-Castleiney squeeze home

Tipperary SHC: Champions Loughmore-Castleiney defeated Clonoulty-Rossmore 0-17 to 2-10 in a nail-biting finish to this quarter-final at Semple Stadium on Saturday.

This was a game Clonoulty-Rossmore, the West champions, will feel they should have won. They led at half-time, 2-5 to 0-10 thanks to goals from Timmy Hammersley and John O Neill but 11 second-half wides proved their undoing against a Loughmore-Castleiney side that registered five unanswered points in ten minutes at the start of the last quarter to go three points clear with four minutes to play.

John O Keeffe and Timmy Hammersley points had Clonoulty two adrift as the game went into injury-time and Shane Nolan in the Loughmore goal made a brilliant save from John O Neill and then from Timmy Hammersley off the rebound as Clonoulty chased a winning goal.