The anticipated club match of the season turned into a non-event as Donemana inflicted Limavady’s first Northern Bank Senior Cup defeat in three years.

The league champions had 117 runs to spare in the semi-final as, for the first time in five Senior Cup meetings between the teams, the home fans could celebrate victory.

A victory target of 253 was not beyond Limavady at the start of the innings but within four overs the chase was all but called off after the loss of four wickets for just seven runs.

Azhar Shafiq and Stephen Dunn took two wickets apiece as Ian McGregor, Chris Moore and Andrew and Tom Riddles were dismissed for an aggregate of one run.

When Decker Curry gave Shafiq his third wicket with the total on 24, Limavady used the rest of the innings as batting practice, eventually bowled out in the 41st over.

Fittingly it was Andrew McBrine who took the last wicket — his fourth — because it was his patient innings that had dominated the Donemana innings.

The 16 year old, coming to the wicket at 58 for two, scored 70 with nine fours and a six before he was the seventh wicket to fall, bowled by Andrew Riddles with the total on 224.

Riddles was the most successful Limavady bowler with four for 58 but Simon Dunn conceded only 27 from his 10 wicketless overs.

Donemana will meet Bready in the two-day final at Eglinton, starting on July 31, after Bready’s impressive seven wickets success over Strabane in the first semi final on Saturday.

Con de Lange (97 not out) and Robert Rankin (46 not out) scored the last 103 runs as Bready chased down Strabane’s 207 for six with almost eight overs to spare.

Their target should have been so much greater but after Niall McDonnell and Kevin Martin had put on 129 for the first wicket in 26 overs, to score only 78 from the last 24 was fatal.

Trevor Britton, who ended McDonnell’s innings at 78, bowled his 10 overs for 27.

In the only Senior One league match played at the weekend, Brigade’s batting horrors returned as they were dismissed for 87 by Killymallaght who won only their third game of the season by two wickets.

Only Ifti Hussain (34) and Nick Donnell reached double figures for the Beechgrove side who were bowled out in 22 overs. Killymallaght scraped home in the 33rd.