Cloughmills (Antrim) 1-11

Eoghan Rua (Derry) 2-6

Cloughmills shaded a hard-fought Ulster club IHC final at Ballymena.

A Liam Cassley goal had St. Brigid's 1-4 to 0-3 up after 25 minutes, but their Coleraine opponents finished the first half strongly to leave the sides level on 1-5 apiece at the break.

The winners pulled away again after the restart with points from Michael Devlin, Geoffrey Og Laverty, Cassley, James Doherty and Owen Kinney before a second Eoghan Rua goal reduced the deficit to the minimum.

However, another Kinney point settled it in injury-time. 

Cloughmills - C McKernan; S Martin, J McGuckian, S McKendry; M Dobbin, A Smiley, R Laverty; C Laverty, J Doherty (0-1); M Morrison, M Devlin (0-2, 1f), L Kearns (0-2, 1f); G Og Laverty (0-1), O Kinney (0-2), L Cassley (1-3). Sub: S Smyth for J Doherty.

Eoghan Rua - P Mullan; C Lagan, L McGoldrick (1-0f), P Dallas; C Boyle, N Holly, A Rafferty; D Mullan, R Leonard; R Mooney (0-2), M McQuillan, T Magee; SL McGoldrick (0-4, 3f), Colm McGoldrick (1-0), Ciaran McGoldrick. Sub: C Gaile for M McQuillan.

Referee - C Murray.

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