Lucan and O’Toole’s progress to SHC ‘A’ semis

O’Toole’s booked their berth in the Dublin SHC ‘A’ when recording a 3-18 to 0-19 victory over Crumlin at O’Toole Park on Sunday.

The early exchanges were even before Liam Ryan’s 14^th minute goal bolted O’Toole’s into the lead.

Crumlin’s Peter Elliott and Peadar Carton exchanged points before Niall Arthur’s sideline made way all the way to the net to help O’Tooles to a 2-9 to 0-11 interval lead.

Three minutes into the second half Ger Arthur converted a penalty to strengthen Crumlin’s grip on the game.

The second quarter-final was a tighter battle with Lucan Sarsfields held off St Jude’s 2-23 to 2-21 after extra-time.

Jude’s opened impressively with Donie Fox hitting three early points to give his side a four-point lead inside eight minutes.

By half-time the accuracy of Kevin O’Reilly, who scored six, had the sides level 0-10 each.

Then Jude’s looked to have made the move to strike for victory when they hit four points in-a-row and followed with a Paul Maguire goal in the 37^th minute.

Dublin senior panellist Fionn Ó Riain Broin grabbed a second goal for Jude’s to give his side an eight-point cushion.

But back came Lucan with O’Reilly hitting two goals, one from a free and the other from a sideline cut, before a late point from Dublin minor of the last two seasons, Ciarán Dowling, forced the game into extra-time (2-19 each).

Lucan made it could in added time with scores from Trevor Lee and Dowling seeing them into the last-four.

Nh Fionnbarra’s senior hurlers captured the AHL2 with victory over Setanta.

Barrs’ captain John Bailey lifted the trophy for the first time in 23 years for the Cabra club.