Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Maurice Aylward expressed satisfaction with his side's 17-point Leinster club semi-final victory over Westmeath's Raharney at Mullingar. "The aim coming to Westmeath was to win the match, and that's what we did," he said. "We put up a big score and played for the hour, so I'm happy with the performance. Twenty-six points is good scoring on any day although I would have liked to have seen a goal." His Raharney counterpart and new Westmeath hurling boss Eamonn Gallagher paid tribute to his massive underdogs for battling all the way. "Ballyhale crucified every mistake. In the first 20 minutes, it cost us as we didn't take our scores. We needed early scores to go over and settle us down. We knew we had a huge task but we asked the lads to hurl away and they never gave up," he said. Tweet

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