A few match reports from division 1 SFL today.
Maguiresbridge 0-14 v St Pats 1-6 = Maguiresbridge seen a deserved victory in their first home fixture in Division One with a five point win over St Pats. The early starters were actually the Donagh men who went into a 1-1 v 0-2 lead thanks to a goal from Ryan Kelly. The ‘Bridge however chipped away constantly with points from Andrew Breslin, Matthew Teague, Sean Corrigan and Ciaran Corrigan versus scores for St Pats from Pat Cadden and Joe Cadden seeing them go in with a half time lead of 0-9 v 1-3. The second half seen a greater level of dominance with Maguiresbridge winning the breaks off Ryan Hyde at midfield and working up a lead of 0-12 v 1-3 until a pointed free from Pat Cadden of Donagh, a full half hour from their last score pulled one back. However Maguiresbridge continued to steadily tag on points from Sean Corrigan, Matthew Teague and Danny Teague. Some late pressure from St Pats seen a couple of goalmouth flurries with line clearance from defender Diarmaid Russell ensuring they were unable to get the sought after goal although they tagged on points from Pat Cadden and Gary Maguire.
Lisnaskea 1-7 v Belcoo 0-13 = Belcoo were to make it two wins from two outings as they traveled to Lisnaskea and returned winners by three points. The O’Rahilly’s always held their opponents at arms length from the mid point in the first half to the very end.
Two early Jonathan Feeley points were wiped out by a Lisnaskea goal from Garbhan McManus. By half time Belcoo led 0-9 to 1-3. Feely had hit four more, Brian Cox, James McGrath and Barry McGovern also on target. For Lisnaskea Sean Keenan had 2, one a well struck 45 and Niall McElroy.
In the 2nd half McElroy got Skea to within two but that was as close as they got as the sides traded points. Feeley 3 more and Matthew McAloon for Belcoo.
Keenan and Stephen Phair had scored points before Keenan knocked over a stoppage time free to end the game with Belcoo victors by 3 points.
Derrygonnelly 0-5 v Ederney 1-7 = Mark Henry’s Ederney side made it two wins from two at a sun drenched Canon Maguire Park on Sunday.
The Ederney side led 0-4 to 0-2 at half time with some wasteful shooting from Derrygonnelly costing the home side.
Into the second half Ederneys Peter Gormley done well to get away from his man before coolly slotting in Darren McCusker for the only goal of the game.
Derrygonnelly had further second half points from Paul Ward and Gary McKenna but Ederney always held the upper hand with Paul Gallogley, Darren McCusker and the excellent Peter Gormley all adding to their sides tally.
