Rossa (Antrim) 5-13 Castledawson (Derry) 2-5 Jane Adams lit up the Ulster Senior club final in Keady on Saturday 2nd September with a magnificent 4 goals and 5 points against a battling performance from first-time Derry title-holders Castledawson. Her opening two goals in the fifth and seventeenth minutes opened up a 2-6 to 0-3 interval lead and already Rossa looked on their way to a third successive title. That was confirmed within eight minutes of the re-start when last season's Ulster Writers' Player of the Year had added two goals and a point. Her teenage side-kick Mairiosa McGourty had sparkled in the Antrim decider with two goals and she added Rossa's fifth in direct response to the first of two late goals from Shauna Mulholland. The game became scrappy near the end and Rossa will be worried about the implications of a straight red card for corner-back Teresa Adams - but they are safely through for an another assault on the All-Ireland. Rossa : Theresa McGowan, Teresa Adams, Hannah Healy, Pauline Greene, Ciara Gault, Maureen Stewart, Shauneen McGourty, Seainín Daykin, Colleen Doherty, Ailsing McColl 0-1, Gráinne Connolly 0-3, Valerie Loughran, Mairiosa McGourty 1-3, Jane Adams capt 4-5, Ciara McGinley 0-1. Subs: Máiréad Rainey for V Loughran, Fiona Kennedy for G Connolly. Castledawson : Claire O'Kane, Sinéad Heaney, Maura McAuley capt, Mary McAuley, Geraldine Mulholland, Eileen Pickering, Karen McGrath, Melissa Shivers, Catherine Pickering 0-1, Róisín O'Kane, Shauna Mulholland 2-0, AnnMarie Boville, Róisín Pickering, Katie McAuley 0-4, Eimear Totten. Subs : Úna McAuley for AnneMarie Boville, Cathy Doyle for R O'Kane. Tweet

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