Meath 1-9 Tyrone 0-12

Meath Under 20 footballers staged a late late show to earn a draw with All Ireland champions Tyrone in the opening round of the Leo Murphy Cup played in ideal conditions at Ashbourne.

John McCarthy’s men led at the break 1-4 to 0-6. Liam Stafford opened the scoring for the home side. The visitors replied with two points before Eoghan Frayne scored the games only goal. Brian O'halloran and Frayne (2) completed Meath’s first half tally.

Frayne extended Meath’s lead early in the second half with two well worked points but for the next twenty minutes Tyrone outscored the Royals 0-6 to 0-1 to open up a two point lead. 

Meath refused to give in and points from Ruairi Kinsella and substitute Tom Bowden left the teams level at the finish.

The very impressive Ruairí Canavan kicked eight points for Tyrone.

Meath: Billy Hogan, Brian O’Halloran 0-1, Liam Kelly, Conor Ennis, Shaun Leonard, John O’Regan, Brian O’Reilly, Jack Kinlough, Conor Gray, Liam Stafford 0-1, Eoghan Frayne 1-5, Ciaran Caulfield, Hughie Corcoran, Alan Bowden, Ruairi Kinsella 0-1.

Subs: Oisin McDermott, John McDonagh, Sean Emmanuel, Con Smith, Ben Moran, Louis Collins, Tom Bowden 0-1, Lorcan O’Connor, John Finnerty, John Mannion, Fursey Blake

 

 

 

 

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