HOCKEY/All-Ireland Club final/Hermes - 1 Pegasus - 0: Hermes completed the most successful season in the club's history at Belfield yesterday, their defeat of Pegasus adding the All- Ireland title to the Leinster League, Irish Senior Cup and European Cup Winners' Trophy gold they have won. Only their failure to win the Leinster Cup denied them the "grand slam".

They had won the All-Ireland title and the Irish Cup before, but never in the same season, so Molly Powers' winning goal, five minutes from time, clinched the club the most prestigious of domestic doubles for the first time.

A deserved victory it was too over the reigning All-Ireland champions, with Hermes having much the better of the game after the break following a poor first half in which neither team found their rhythm.

Pegasus, who lost their young international Alex Speers early in the first half when she was hit in the face by the ball, struggled to do any serious damage to a Hermes defence that has proved impenetrable for much of the season, and when they did manage shots on goal Nikki King dealt comfortably with them.

The Hermes attack didn't fare much better in the first half, a series of tame efforts hardly troubling Sharon Moffett in the Pegasus goal, but they stepped up a gear or five in the second, with Mary Logue and Catriona Carey becoming increasingly effective in midfield.

Logue was behind much of Hermes' best attacking work, the corner count of eight to three in her team's favour a fair indication of the balance of the game.

The deciding goal, as extra- time loomed, followed a beautifully worked move down the right, with Hodgins, Logue and Carol Devine all involved before the hugely impressive substitute Catriona McGilp (a fifth year student at St Andrew's), played a perfect ball in to Powers' path, leaving her to tap past Moffett.

Much as they tried there was no way back for Pegasus.

HERMES: N King, J Hodgins, F Connery, A McCarthy, J Osborne (capt), M Logue, L Caulfield, C Carey, S Young, M Powers, C Devine. Subs: A Mitchell, C McGilp.

PEGASUS: S Moffett, N Graham, A Boyles (capt), C McKee, F Ferguson, K McConnell, K Humphreys, K McCollum, A Speers, C McMahon, S Wilkinson. Sub: H McClung.

Umpires: C Metchette and Z Howe.

IHA chief executive Paul Varian described Saturday's rejection of a "National Superleague", as a missed opportunity.