Tyrone 1-14, Monaghan 0-11.
A sharper, more incisive Tyrone proved too strong in most departments for Monaghan in this tough, hard-hitting and at times niggly contest in Cloghan on Friday evening last, the game switched to the Monaghan venue as Garvaghey was unavailable. Tyrone's ability to defend in numbers, break quickly and recycle the ball effectively left them always holding an edge but there was also an almost intimidating undercurrent towards Monaghan players running in this game that kept referee Pat Clarke on his toes throughout. Teams and Scorers: Tyrone: Sean Fox, Michael McKernan, Peter Teague, Cillian McCann, Michael Flanagan, Sean Loughran 0-1, Owen Murray 0-1, Ben McDonald, Ryan Loughran 0-2, Johnny Harkin, Michael O'Neill, Mark Kavanagh 0-6 (5f), Paraic McAnenley 0- (1f), Fintan McClure 0-1 (f|), Sean E Fox 1-0. Subs: Frank Burns for M O'Neill, Colm Byrne for B McDonald, Ruairi McGlone for P McAnenley, Dan Lowe for M Flanagan, Ryan Coleman 0-1 for R Loughran, Shea Hamill for E Murray.
Monaghan: Conor Forde, Adam Kieran, Michael Murnaghan, Kevin Loughran, Barry Kerr, Dessie Ward 0-1, Aodh Curran, James Mealiff, Niall Loughman, Donal Meegan, Niall Rooney, Aaron Jones 0-1, Adam Treanor 0-7 (6f), Jamie Walshe, Michael O'Dowd. Subs: David McAlister 0-1 for D Meegan, Christopher Rice for A Jones, James Morrow for C Forde, Barry McBennett 0-1 for J Walshe, Alan McCaughey for A Curran, Francis Maguire for M O'Dowd, Micheal McCarville for D Ward, Christopher McAnenley for C Rice (Black Card). Referee: Pat Clarke (Cavan).
ALLIANZ HURLING LEAGUE DIVISION 3A.
Monaghan v Tyrone: St. Tiarnach's Park, Clones: Sunday February 14th @ 2.00pm.
Monaghan and Tyrone who contested the Allianz Hurling league Division 3A final last year open their 2016 campaigns with a date in St Tiarnach's Park Clones on Sunday, the game switched to Clones from St Mary's Park, Castleblayney earlier this week. MONAGHAN MANAGER Trevor Hilliard is looking forward to the season ahead. "I think it's going to be a great division 3A this year again and preparations have been going very well, those games in the McGuirk Cup certainly brought the lads on and we played a couple of challenge games recently as well. We wouldn't read too much into the effect that the situation in Tyrone earlier on will have on them, because they were probably training away despite the fact that there was no manager but the players will have been doing some work themselves and they have some very good players. We will have a few changes from the squad we had last year but I still think we have a well balanced outfit with a good mixture of young players and experience players and the return of lads like Sean Leonard and Brian McGuigan is certainly a boost. We are not fooling ourselves though as Tyrone will certainly go into the game as favourites given the season they had last year and the fact that they enjoyed success in the last two seasons, but we will not be anyway overawed and we will be looking for both points on Sunday".
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