Educational Supplies Roinn A
Final
St. Patrick’s De La Salle
3-12 St.
Canice’s 2-7
St.
Patrick’s De La Salle won the Educational
Supplies Roinn A final for the first time since 1997 when they defeated
their
city rivals St. Canice’s after an excellent final in Nowlan Park on
Tuesday
last. St. Patrick’s went into this game as favourites but they were made
fight
all the way by a determined St. Canice’s outfit. The opening exchanges
were
tense and after eight minutes the sides were level at one point apiece.
Tadhg O
Dwyer opened the scoring for St. Pat’s with a point from a free and
Adrian
Nolan replied with a similar score for St. Canice’s. St.
Canice’s edged ahead with points from Bill
Sheehan and Aidan Nolan (’65). Aidan Nolan then found the net with a
ground
shot bit St. Patrick’s struck back quickly with a goal from Shane
O’Shaughnessy.
Tadhg O’Dwyer added two points from frees before the break and right on
the
stroke of halftime William Spencer added
another point to leave St. Patrick’s ahead by 1-5 to 1-3.
Two
points from Tadhg O’Dwyer straight from the restart put
St. Patrick’s
on their way but St. Canice’s hit back with a fine point from Aidan
Nolan.
However St. Patrick’s were gradually getting the upper hand and they
added 1-3
to their tally in the next ten minutes to put them in a commanding
position.
Eoin Wall scored the goal and Tadhg O’Dwyer, Ross Whelan and Andrew
Parsons
supplied the points. St. Canice’s refused to throw in the towel and came
forward in search of scores. Harry Duggan Scored an excellent point to
give
them some hope. St Patrick’s added a goal when Andrew Parsons scored
after a good pass from Liam Rafter. Harry
Duggan scored an excellent goal for
St.Canice’s to reduce the deficit , but
they were unable to close the gap and the sides shared four points
between them
Harry Duggan(2) and Tadhg O’Dwyer (2) to see St. Patrick’s run out
deserving
winners on a scoreline of 3-12 to 2-7.
St. Patrick’s De La
Salle: Richard Stapleton ,
Patrick Kennedy , Ben Devlin, Shane Donohoe , Noah Canty
,Shane O’Shaughnessy (C) Jack Butler ,Tadhg O’Dwyer , Andrew
Parsons , Liam Rafter, William Spencer ,
Shane Stapleton , Christian Holohan , Niamul Hossein, Nathan
Donohoe , James Walton, Ross
Whelan, Eoin Wall, Tommy Walton, Aaron Kelly, Michael Doyle, Andy
Whelan, Ryan
Scanlon, Andy Walsh
St. Canice’s: Gavin
Byrne, Tommy Byrne, Evan Carroll, Cormac Buggy, Conor Doheny, Edward
Moylan (C),
Robert Crotty, Oisin Gough, Harry
Duggan, Bill Sheehan, Kieran Ryan, Aidan Nolan, Peter Collins, Chris
Kavanagh, Adam
Clifford, Colin Dempsey, Mark Nolan, Peter Lynch, Jack Condren, Panos
Brennan
Referee: Paschal Connolly (Ballyhale Shamrocks) | |
