Odds favour Turloughmore and St Thomas’ showdown

By Patrick Earley

IT’S been one of the best championships we’ve seen for years and this weekend, we reach the penultimate stage of the 2020 senior hurling championship with two epic contests in store at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

In what has been a year of new structures, new routines in training and on match-day, the cream has once again risen to the top with the four teams left standing in the race for the Tom Callanan Cup.

Loughrea ensured there would be some alteration to last year’s semi-final line-up dumping Liam Mellows out of the title race in the quarter-final but that aside, it’s as you were with St Thomas’, Cappataggle and Turloughmore all returning to this stage again. What happens from here though is anyone’s guess.

St Thomas’ v Cappataggle

Pearse Stadium (1.30pm)

It’s hard to credit given the success of these two sides in the last five years that this will be their first meeting in the senior championship in recent memory.

Luck of the draw has kept them apart in the groups and knockout games over the years, but now the stars have aligned to pit these two senior hurling heavyweights against one another in Sunday’s opening semi-final contest.

Both came through contrasting quarter-final contests with St Thomas’ playing some scintillating hurling at times in a deserved victory over Killimordaly, while Cappataggle for their part had to show character and patience to weather an opening half onslaught from Ahascragh/Fohenagh before taking over in the second period to secure a six-point victory.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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