Furze men well beaten
Simonstown 3-13 Sen’chalst’n 1-10
SIMONSTOWN reinforced their tag of favourites to retain the Keegan Cup when chalking up their third win on the trot in the SFC at Castletown last Saturday evening.
Young Cathal Finnegan and Bryan Clarke were in scoring mode for Seneschalstown early on as they opened up a three point lead. However Simonstown were never headed after Nathan O’Brien struck for their opening goal on 21 minutes.
The Navan men hit a second goal when Sean Tobin took advantage of poor defending to send his side into a 2-5 to 0-5 lead on 26 minutes. The lead was halved when a teasing delivery from Finnegan was finished to the net by Clarke. Simonstown though were unfazed by the concession of that goal and they had established a five point advantage after Mark McCabe fisted to the net on 40 minutes. SIMONSTOWN: Robbie Burlingham; Mark Gardiner 0-1, Stephen Moran, Niall McMahon; Brian McGrath, Brian Conlon, Naill Kane; Shane O’Rourke 0-1, Conor Sheridan; Joe Lyons, Sean Tobin 1-5 (2f), Mark McCabe 1-1; Padraig McKeever 0-4 (2f), Nathan O’Brien 1-0, Eanna Donoghue. Subs: Mickey Brennan for Lyons (38), Shane Barry 0-1 for Sheridan (41), Stephen O’Reilly for Gardiner (47), Mark Devlin for McGrath (48), Rory O’Connor for O’Brien (53), James Kilcullen for McCabe (56).
SENESCHALSTOWN: David Gordon; Niall Hickey, Cormac Noonan, Brian Maguire; David Matthews, Adam Carey, Niall Groome; John Smith, Damien Sheridan; Cathal Finnegan 0-3 (1f), Niall McCabe 0-2, Gary Conlon; Sean Noonan, Joe Sheridan 0-1, Bryan Clarke 1-4 (3f, 1’45). Subs: Robbie Wogan for Noonan (34), Andrew Collins for Matthews (43), James Conlon for Carey (58).
REF: Cormac Reilly (St Mary’s)