St. Vincent's 0-16 Dunsany 1-10

They say a week is a long time in politics, well 10 days is a long time this time of year weather wise. Having played out a dour 6 point a piece draw against Moynalty in the first round of the Junior Championship in winter weather, St. Vincent's made hay in the Donore sunshine on Friday evening 20-04- 2018 against Dunsany.

The Ardcath side led 0-11 to 1-03 at the interval playing some slick passing football with the evergreen Tommy Field leading the way with five points. The maroon defensive wall proving very hard to penetrate holding Dunsany to 4 scores all from placed balls, a penalty and three frees.

Dunsany outscored St. Vincent's seven points to five in the second half reducing the deficit to a single point with only minutes remaining but the Ardcath men scored the last two points through Tommy Field and Paddy Arnold to win by three clear points after eight minutes of added time.

St. Vincent's: E Connor, J Corry, D Tallon, R Hand 0-02, D Murphy, N Tallon, B O'Sullivan, M Crawley, R Tallon, S O'Brien, T Field 0-06, J Byrne 0-01, D O'Sullivan 0-03 P Arnold 0-01 N Hand 0-03. Suba used: M Fox for M Crawley, E Corry for D O'Sullivan, L Corry for B O'Sullivan.

Dunsany Report

Dunsany slumped to a disappointing 4-point defeat on a sunny Friday evening in Donore.

From the start Dunsany were on the back foot as the Ardcath men started brightly and took the early lead. Dunsany kept in touch, in what was a tight opening 10 minute, through the boot of the impressive Pierre Fox. 'Vincents then upped the tempo and surged into a 3-point lead before Dunsany were awarded a penalty in the 13th minute. Declan Smyth and raced through the defence and was about to pull the trigger when he was taken out by two defenders. Smyth was subsequently forced to come off after the incident and no card was awarded to the perpetrator.

Fox dispatched the penalty with minimal fuss to leave the sides level. This was to be Dunsany's last score of the half as Vincet's again took over and went in at the break 0-11 to 1-3 ahead.

Dunsany improved in the second half and kept the Ardcath side to 2 points for the first 25 minutes of the half and reduced the defict to a point with 3 minutes of normal time left. But this was to be as close as Dunsany would get as St.Vincents would see the game out and seal the victory in the fading light in Donore.

Dunsany: N Flynn; E Harkin G Byrne M Munnelly; C Harkin P Burke P Maguire; C O'Donnell S Brennan; K Keena A Kelly D Smyth; G O'Neill (0-1) P Fox (1-8) C Murphy (0-1). Subs: J Harlin for Smyth, R Montague for O'Neill, M Brennan for Byrne

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