Ballinrobe CS - 0-10, Ballyhaunis CS - 0-4

Only one point separated Ballinrobe and Ballyhaunis Community Schools with 10 minutes to play in this Connacht Colleges Senior…

Only one point separated Ballinrobe and Ballyhaunis Community Schools with 10 minutes to play in this Connacht Colleges Senior `A' quarter-final at Claremorris yesterday. But five unanswered points in the closing stages gave Ballinrobe victory.

The winners led by 0-3 to 0-1 at the interval and stormed through with two points each from Mark Walkin and Paul Doherty and another from Adrian Coyne to seal a hard earned victory.

Ballinrobe CS: E Loughlin; J Donnellan, A O'Toole, D Kelly; J O'Malley, R Keane, M Keane; P Casey (0-2), A Burke; M Gill, P Doherty (0-2), J Maloney; A Coyne (0-1), M Walkin (0-5), S Kelly. Subs: D Coyne for D Kelly, N Murphy for S Kelly.

Ballyhaunis: J Hickey; P Cummins, M McGreal, M Hunt; T Page, R Nolan, A Shanaghy; T Buckley, C Forde; H Carney, C McCrudden, D Hurley (0-2); P Prenty (0-1), T Cunningham, C Glavey (0-1). Subs: S Maguire for T Buckley, P Gildea for G Cunningham.

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Referee: K Byrne (Knock).

Connacht Colleges Senior A FC: Quarter-final - St Mary's College, Galway 0-9, St Gerard's College, Castlebar 0-5.

Saturday's MacRory Cup quarter-final tie between St Michael's, Enniskillen, and St Mary's, Magherafelt was postponed due to weather conditions following heavy overnight snow.