DERRY SFC FINAL: Loup 1-8 Dungiven 0-10:ENDA McQUILLAIN'S goal eight minutes from time proved the turning point as Loup produced an upset to claim the Derry senior title at Celtic Park yesterday.

Making his first championship appearance of the year, veteran substitute McQuillain got his hand to Joe O’Kane’s diagonal ball to deflect it past the stranded Peter McCaul to give the Lough Shore side what would proved a winning 1-8 to 0-8 lead.

Pre-match favourites Dungiven had looked set to justify that status early on and led through frees from Fergal McGuigan and Paul Murphy by the five-minute mark.

Loup spurned a couple of kickable early frees but super long range scores from Shane McFlynn and Joe O’Kane saw them level matters.

However, Dungiven were creating chances and Cathal Grieve pointed from the right to edge them back in front and frees from Murphy and Grieve made it 0-5 to 0-2 with 22 minutes gone. But just when it looked the Magpies would push home Loup came back, helped by the impetus supplied by teenage substitute Ciarán Devlin.

Paul McVey pulled a point back from a free, Devlin added one from play and Aidan McAlynn powered through from midfield to make it five points apiece within injury-time. Dungiven did go in with a half-time advantage as Liam Hinphey kicked a monster score for a 0-6 to 0-5 interval lead.

It was nip and tuck for most of the second half and the sides were tied at 0-8 apiece when McQuillain’s opportunist strike put the St Patrick’s men in the box seat on 52 minutes. Dungiven narrowed the gap to one through a fisted effort from Ryan Kealy and a free from Grieve but their chances of forcing a replay drifted away with Paul Murphy’s last-gasp free which faded wide of the far post .

DUNGIVEN:P McCaul; S McGuigan, Gavan McLaughlin, David McLaughlin; Mark Craig, E McKeever, R Kealy (0-1); L Óg Hinphey (0-1), A McCloskey; K Hinphey, P Murphy (0-4, three frees), J McNicholl; F McGuigan (0-1, free), C Grieve (0-3, two frees), S Murray. Subs: R McElhinney for McNicholl (half-time), E Farren for K Hinphey (34 mins), D McGilligan for S Murray (43 mins).

LOUP:S McGuckin; D McVey, J O'Kane (0-1), C McVey; B McVey, B Doyle, F Devlin; J McBride, A McAlynn (0-1); P McVey (0-2, frees), P McFlynn (0-1, free), G Mallon (0-1); D McVey, S McFlynn (0-1), P Young. Subs: C Devlin (0-1) for B McVey 5 mins, E McQuillain (1-0) for S McFlynn half-time, B McVey for McQuillain 58 mins.

Referee:B Toland (Banagher).