Westport find extra gear to book Mayo SFC final date with Ballina Stephenites

Holders Ballina Stephenites will face Westport in the Mayo senior football championship final next Sunday, October 19th after both sides came through their respective semi-finals this afternoon.

Bidding for their third Paddy Moclair Cup in-a-row, Ballina recorded a 1-12 to 0-8 win against Knockmore in Hastings MacHale Park to book their final return.

Evan Regan, Niall Feeney and Conor McStay shot scores in the first-half that saw Ballina take in a 0-6 to 0-2 lead at the break and they’d be well on their way back to the final once Luke Doherty smashed in the game’s only goal early in the second-half.

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Aidan Orme helped Knockmore to cut their arrears down to five before Frank Irwin provided the insurance score for the champions down the home stretch.

Niall Heffernan’s men now face Westport in the final after their thrilling extra time victory over Crossmolina Deel Rovers (1-24 to 1-20) in Charlestown.

In a game which saw 19 different scorers over the 80 minutes, it was the scores of Paddy O’Malley (two-pointer), Kevin Keane (2), Tom Lambert and Pat Lambert that saw Pat Holmes’s men over the line in the end.

Killian Kilkelly struck 1-6 for Westport while teenage Kobe McDonald weighed in with 0-9 for Crossmolina who had led by 1-14 to 1-13 in second-half injury-time before Kilkelly sent the game to extra time for 2022 champions.

🤯 Killian Kilkelly's last minute equaliser sends the game into extra-time.

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