A brave showing by St Eunans simply wasn’t enough to see them progress in the Ulster Club Championship against Crossmaglen Rangers at the Athletic Grounds.
The Letterkenny side were always on the backfoot after the Armagh champions got off to an early lead and eventually lost 3-11 to 1-7.
An early Kyle Carragher goal for Crossmaglen didn’t help Eunans cause.
However they managed to keep in touch with some fine points from Conal Dunne and Mark McGowan to leave Crossmaglen 1-6 to 0-4 ahead at half-time.
Big John Haran gave Eunans huge hope when he rattled the net just after the restart.
However that hope was dashed when free-kick ace Mark McGowan was red-carded just after that.
And sensing that Eunans were wounded, Crossmaglen rubbed salt in the wounds as Aaron Kernan netted again for the Armagh team.
The evergreen Oisin McConville made it 2-10 to 1-5 as the Glen began to turn the screw.
Indeed but for a point blank save from JP Clarke, Eunans could have then found themselves even further behind.
That fear became a reality when Paul Grant forced Clarke to pick the ball out of his net for a third time to make it 3-11 to 1-6 for Crossmaglen.
Crossmaglen (Armagh) will now play Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone) in the semi-final.
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