NUIG Maree coach Charlie Crowley lavished reward on his prices after they beat Templeogue 85-83 to knock out the reigning champions within the Nationwide Cup’s opening spherical on Saturday.
orcan Murphy shot 27 factors for the Dublin facet, however it was not sufficient to cease the Galway males recording their first victory within the competitors’s historical past.
“It was wanting grim sufficient on the very begin, however we caught to it and we saved going,” mentioned Crowley, whose facet face UCD Marian within the quarter-finals.
“There have been some large particular person performances, Deondre Jackson, Lovre Tvrdic – they stepped up large after we wanted them they usually got here in.”
In the meantime, Kieran Donaghy loved a 74-66 victory yesterday over Ballincollig with Tralee Warriors, lower than 24 hours after knocking out East Kerry within the Kerry SFC with Austin Stacks.
Donaghy and Co will subsequent face Moycullen within the final eight of the cup.
“Final night time was nice with the membership, however I knew this was going to be a giant one and I hadn’t been enjoying with the lads, so I’m practically extra of hindrance as I don’t know the offences properly sufficient,” Donaghy mentioned.
“However when it was going towards us we simply dug in on defence. Quite a lot of us are new and as soon as we get that chemistry going we’ll be in a great spot. However look, that’s a large win within the cup.”
The 2020 crushed finalists Éanna will tackle Killorglin within the quarter-finals after rising 98-69 winners away at Belfast Star on Saturday. Killester will face Neptune after beating DCU Saints 93-68.
Girls’s cup champions Killester additionally bowed out on the first spherical after struggling a house 102-61 defeat to Glanmire on Saturday.
The Cork facet, who now face IT Carlow within the quarter-finals, had been bolstered by the return of Claire Melia to their beginning line-up, and completed the sport with 24 factors.
“I’m very comfortable for the ladies, we’ve had a few robust weeks, a few accidents, a few diseases and we simply needed to knuckle down as a workforce,” Glanmire head coach Mark Scannell mentioned.
American import Alarie Mayze starred for DCU Mercy by scoring 17 factors of their 66-42 win over St Mary’s in Castleisland, which units up a quarter-final with Liffey Celtics.
In the meantime, Celtics facet thrashed IT Carlow 98-58 of their Girls’s Tremendous League conflict on Saturday, which left them prime of the desk on factors distinction.