St Bride’s hang on
ST BRIDES ST PATRICKS 1-12 1-11
ST. BRIDES registered their third win in the league with this hardearned victory in Pairc an Chuinnigh on Friday evening.
However, the scoreboard was not a true reflection of the game and may be somewhat flattering to the visitors.
St Brides started the better and were six points clear on 16 minutes with the highlight being a Cathal McKenna goal.
Three unanswered points by Paddy Keenan reduced the deficit to two but a McKenna free and a Conaill Devin ‘45 left the home side well in control at half time with a 1-7 to 0-5 lead.
It didn’t get better for the visitors in the second half as ‘The Reds’ increased their lead with two more early points.
The Lordship men lost Paddy Keenan to injury and had Eoghan Lafferty dismissed for a second yellow card, which gave them a mountain to climb.
However, they battled on and came back into the game as St. Brides took their foot off the pedal and Pats reduced the deficit to four points on 47 minutes.
St. Brides tagged on two more singles to lead by six with five minutes to go.
However, the visitors kicked two late points to leave the game on a knife edge with normal time up.
There was still time for St. Patricks to convert a controversial penalty three minutes into added time but St. Brides prevailed by the narrowest of margins.
ST BRIDES: Conaill Devin (0-4); Andrew Smyth (0-1), Ronan Bailey; Padraig Mackin; Mark Hoey, Cillian Kirk, Michael Keane; Patrick Reilly (0-1), Conor Deane; Sean Marry (0-1), Kevin Hearty (0-3), James Costelloe; Ross Kehoe, Cathal Mc Kenna (1-2), Aaron Hoey. Subs: Johnny Culleton for R Kehoe, David Kettle for A Hoey.
ST PATRICKS: Sean Connor; Ross Murphy, Darren O’Hanlon, Aaron Rogers; Conor Grogan, Dessie Finnegan, Eoghan Lafferty; Paddy Keenan (0-4), Thomas McCann (0-1); Ray Finnegan (0-1), Daniel O Connor (1-1), Leonard Gray; Sean McGeough, Cathal Grogan, Aidan McCann. Subs: Daragh Lafferty (0-2) for S McGeough, Gavin Gregory (0-1) for R Murphy, Rory Duffy (0-1) for P Keenan, Patrick Kirk for L Gray.