It took a last gasp point from Shane Roche to earn Wexford a place in this year's Cadbury's U21FC semi-final at the expense of Westmeath at Cusack Park. Wexford 1-10 Westmeath 1-9 A goal at the end of the first quarter from Roche put Wexford in the driving seat but Westmeath, boosted by the excellent John Connellan, trailed by just 0-6 to 1-4 at the break. Westmeath took the lead when Brendan Kelly fired home a goal seventeen minutes from the end, but a flurry of Wexford scores from Sean Carmody, Peter Hughes (2) and Thomas Hayden levelled the game with time nearly up, before Roche struck for that late winner. Wexford - P Kavanagh; T Hayden 0-1, M O'Loughlin, A Murphy; P Whitely, C Murphy, J Kehoe; D Waters, D Farrell; S O'Neill, P Hughes 0-2, B Brosnan 0-1; S Roche 1-3, B Traynor 0-1, B Hearne 0-1. Subs - S Carmody 0-1 for Hearne, M Molloy for O'Loughlin, P Murphy for Kehoe, E Doyle for O'Neill. Westmeath - P Shaw; W Murtagh, K Gavin, S Moorehead; A Whitney 0-1, F O'Reilly, T Warburton; A Browne, N Kilcoyne 0-2; C Reilly, J Durkan, K Scally; K Lynam, B Kelly 1-1, J Connellan 0-5. Subs - C Curley for Lynam, J Dolan for Scally. Ref - G McKenny (Louth) Tweet

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