Glens grab five goals

ROCHE Emmets maintained their bright start to the season when they defeated Lannleire in Dunleer on Friday night.

The visitors did most of the damage in the first half as goals from Liam Dawe and Eugene Murray had them leading by 11 points at the break.

It was Murray who scored the first goal of the game on 17 minutes and five minutes later Dawe grabbed the second to put his side firmly in control, before Lannleire gave themselves hope just before the break when Colin Murphy pulled a goal back.

However, late points from Shane Byrne and Barry O’Hare saw Roche go in at the break with a 2-9 to 1-1 lead. The result was rarely in doubt in the second half and Roche were comfortable winners despite two late Lanneire goals from Bob and Colin Murphy. ROCHE EMMETS: Jamie O’Hare; Andrew Carroll, Joe Bishop, David Quigley; Glen Stewart, Andrew Browne, Dermot Carthy; Dan O’Connell, Liam Dawe 1-1; Shane Byrne 0-2, Liam Carthy, Evin Quigley; Kevin Callaghan 0-2, Eugene Murray 1-0, Barry O’Hare 0-7. Subs: Adam Fee for E Murray, Harry O’Connell for S Byrne, Sean Dawe for K Callaghan

LANNLEIRE: Liam Callan; Jason Torris, Paul McGeough, Laurence McEntee; Caoimhin Maher, Gary Monaghan, Brendan McEvoy; Paul Callan, Ian Mulroy 0-1; Mark Dunne, Alan Murphy, Killian Gregory; Niall Lennon, Bob Murphy 1-0, Colin Murphy 2-2. Sub: Darren Noone for Mark Dunne. GLEN Emmets bounced back from an opening round defeat with a comfortable win over Stabannon Parnells on Friday night.

The Emmets were in fine scoring form on the night and never looked back after a four-goal first half that ended with them leading by 15 points.

James Butler struck the first goal of the game on 12 minutes, and Isaac Walsh followed up with the second before the end of the first quarter.

Further goals from Walsh and Andrew Mooney had them leading by 4-7 to 0-4 at the break.

Despite the best efforts of Aonghus Giggins, who finished with seven points Stabannon were never in a position to threaten the Tullyallen men and substitute David Bracken added the fifth goal. GLEN EMMETS: Conor Kenny; Keith Farnan, Tom Grimes, Keith Boylan; Jamie Gilkes, Stephen Healy 0-1, Sam Kenny; Robert Byrne 0-1, Sean Byrne; Kealan O’Neill 0-4, Keith Lynch 0-3, James Butler 1-0; Andrew Mooney 1-0, Isaac Walsh 2-0, Conor Grimes 0-3. Subs: D Andrews for C Grimes, M Garvey for S Byrne, M Noone 0-3 for J Butler, J Farnan for K Farnan, J Farrelly for K Boylan, D Bracken 1-0 for J Gilkes.

STABANNON: Anthony Briscoe; Alan Lynch, Sean Halpenny, Cathal Halpenny; Thomas Callaghan, Eamonn Callaghan 0-1, David Cluskey; Aonghus Giggins 0-7, Shane Sweeney; Barry Sweeney, Colm Giggins, Fintan Martin; Patrick Bell, Niall Cluskey, Wayne Lynch. Sub: Aidan Shelvin 0-1 for S Halpenny. NAOMH Malachi scored a surprise Division 3A victory over Na Piarsaigh at Courtbane on Sunday.

The Dundalk men made the trip with expectations of maintaining their push for league honours but on the day they were unable to match a very impressive Mals side.

The wind made it difficult for both sides but it was the Malachis who got the first point and it was 16 minutes on the clock before Naps scored their opening point, a free converted by Alan McCartney.

This score prompted Na Piarsaigh and the visitors scored three more in quick succession to go in at half time leading by 0-4 to 0-1.

The second period started with a gale blowing and Naomh Malachi made use of the wind at their backs to outscore the Dundalk side who only mustered one point in the half.

NH MALACHI: Christopher McCaughley; Stephen Burns, David Rogers, Conor Begley; Donal Mulholland, David Begley, Aaron Mulholland; Jack Kirwan, Mark Meegan; Jamie Kelly, Ronan Greene, Donal Begley; Ronan McElroy, Padraig Moley, Colin Rooney. Subs: Keelan Conlon, Paul Gogarty, Shane Rogers, Colin Hoey, Liam McCann, Pierce Caherty, Emmet Mullen. NA PIARSAIGH: Adam Molloy; Stephen McGuinness, Ronan McCartney, Fergal Mulholland; Shane Roddy, Gerard Smyth, Joe Woods; Jarlath Lyons, David Egan; Eamonn McAuley 0-2, Michael Woods 0-1, Tommy Muckian; Sean McAuley, Alan McCartney 0-1, David Boyle 0-1. Subs: Stephen Arrowsmith, Robert Murphy, Gerry Scanlon, Mark Larkin, Aidan Marks.