Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 3-11
St. Eunan's (Donegal) 1-7

All-Ireland champions Crossmaglen Rangers produced a dominant second half performance to brush aside the challenge of 14-man St. Eunan's at the Athletic Grounds.

The newly-crowned Donegal champions gave as good as they got in the first half, but were put to the sword after Mark McGowan was dismissed on a second yellow card 11 minutes after the restart. David McKenna, Oisin McConville and Callum Cumiskey fired over points before Aaron Kernan and substitute Paul Grant grabbed late goals for Tony McEntee's impressive charges.

St. Eunan's, who had won six matches in as many weeks to win the Donegal SFC title last Sunday, were dealt an early blow when Kyle Carragher beat goalkeeper JP Clarke after just six minutes. But they responded with three points from Conal Dunne, Rory Kavanagh and Ross Wherrity to tie up the scoring at 0-4 to 1-1 after 13 minutes.

However, Cross' scored five points on the trot, which included a spectacular effort from McConville, to take a 1-6 to 0-4 lead into the break.

John Haran brought St. Eunan's back into it with a goal after the restart, but the loss of McGowan proved too much of an obstacle as Cross' turned on the style to qualify for an AIB Ulster club SFC semi-final against Errigal Ciaran.

Crossmaglen Rangers - P Hearty; P Hughes (0-1), P Kernan, McKeown; A Kernan (1-2), J Morgan, M Aherne; J Hanratty, D McKenna (0-2); T Kernan (0-1), S Kernan, A Cunningham; O McConville (0-4), J Clarke, K Carragher (1-0). Subs: M McNamee for McKenna, R Finnegan for A Kernan, C O'Neill for Aherne, C Cumiskey (0-1) for Cunningham, P Grant (1-0) for McConville.

St Eunan's - J P Clarke; C Park, P Devine, E Brennan; M Martin, E Doherty, C Ward, M McGowan (0-1); J Haran (1-0), R Kavanagh; L McMonagle (0-1), C Dunne (0-1), K Rafferty; R Wherity (0-3), S McVeigh. Subs: C Gibbons (0-1) for McMonagle, C Greene for Ward, C Sharkey for McVeigh, A McClafferty for Park.

Referee - M Higgins. Tweet

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