Sheelan Cup Roundup: Geraldines secure huge win to advance to knockout stages

Paddy Sheelan Cup Roundup

Group A

GERALDINES 4-11 ST JOSEPH’S 0-10

Goal hungry Geraldines qualified for the Paddy Sheelan knockout stages with a convincing win over St Joseph’s at McGeough Park on Sunday morning.

The only Sheelan Cup game to go ahead on the day was never in doubt with wing back John McCrohan cutting through the Joes defence to crash the ball to the net in the opening quarter.

Craig Doherty and Jack Mulligan tried to get their side going but Thomas McNamara set up Neil Gartlan to make it 2-7 to 0-6 at the turn.

Any hope of a Joe's comeback were dealt a severe blow in the opening five minutes of the second half when Jim McEneaney tapped home. A Doherty point and an Alan McKenna free were wiped out when David O’Connell rounded up the day’s scoring with the hosts fourth goal.

GERALDINES: Des Reenan; Tiarnan Hand, Jack Traynor, Paul Clarke; John McCrohan (1-0), Matt Corcoran (0-1), Thomas McNamara; Gareth Neacy, Michael Rogers (0-1); Eoin McDonnell, Shaun Callan: (0-3), Brian Cafferty; Neil Gartlan (1-2), Jim McEneaney: (1-2), Jamie Callan (0-2). SUBS Paddy Hoey for Cafferty, David O'Connell (1-0) for E McDonnell, Barra Duffy for McEneaney, Niall Brennan for Gartlan, Francis Lynch for McNamara.

ST. JOSEPH’S: Aidan Shaw; Ryan Doran, Aidan Kieran, Stefan Potts; David Kieran, Killian Staunton, Michael Staunton; Conor Neary (0-2), Daire McKiernan; Jack Mulligan (0-2 frees), Craig Doherty (0-4, 0-1 free), Killian McDonnell; Alan McKenna (0-1 free), Ben Collier, Daire Smyth (0-1). SUBS: Alan Lynch, Patrick McKenna, Oisin McGinn, Jack Barron, Lorcan McGeeney, Stephen Carron, Cian Sheridan, Oran McParland. 

REF: Stephen Murphy (Naomh Mairtin)

Group D

ST PATRICKS 1-14 ST BRIDES 2-7

St Patricks topped Group D and advanced to the quarter finals with a four point win over St Brides on Friday night at Pairc Eamoin.

However, in the early stages it appeared the visitors may advance as they were two goals to one up after eight minutes. The goals came from Nathan Kirk (4 mins), Aidan McCann (6 mins) and Paraic Rutledge (8 mins).

After this the Lordship men moved up a gear with six unanswered points, including scores from Jason Woods, Cathal Grogan and Martin McEneaney, to go in at the break three points clear, 1-6 to 2-0.

After the restart the Knockbridge men got on top and reduced the deficit to the minimum on 36 minutes. However, the hosts found their shooting boots again, registering seven points for the remainder of the half.

Joseph Connor, Stefan Breen and Ben McGuinness were among those on target with 'The Reds' only replying once in that time through Jake McNamara before Sean Marry and Bernard Laverty (2) concluded the scoring with points in stoppage time.

ST PATRICKS: Martin McEneaney (0-1); Barry Dunne, Padraig Duffy, Conor Grogan; Ruairi O’Hagan, Joseph Connor (0-1), Cillian White; Martin Breen, Tom McCann; Aidan McCann (1-2), Matt Pagni, Adam Finnegan (0-2); Tadhg O’Connor (0-1), Cathal Grogan (0-1), Jason Woods (0-3). Subs: Stefan Breen (0-1) for M Breen, Conor McGuinness (0-1) for A Finnegan, Jack Elvin for C White, Ben McGuinness (0-1) for J Woods, James Savage for Cathal Grogan, Dylan O’Shaughnessy for A McCann, Daniel Tumilty for M Pagni.

ST BRIDES: Aaron Devin; Paraic Mackin, Ronan Bailey, Daniel Mc Ardle; Evan Wynne, Michael Keane, Brian Faul; Bernard Laverty (0-3, 0-2 frees), Cillian Kirk; Ross Murnaghan, Jake McNamara (0-1), Ciaran Deane; Sean Marry (0-3), Nathan Kirk (1-0), Paraic Rutledge (1-0). Subs: James Sherry, James Searson, Ross Murnaghan. 

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Group E

HUNTERSTOWN ROVERS 3-9 DREADNOTS 2-9

Hunterstown Rovers travelled out to the coast and captured their first win of the season over Dreadnots at a wild Clogherhead on Friday night.

Two Craig Shevlin goals in the second half weren’t enough for the winless hosts as they tried to work themselves back in the game after trailing 1-5 to 0-5 at the break.

David Finn and Ryan Ward together with Euan Woodlock in more advanced positions crashed the ball home for Rovers to send them home with victory.

HUNTERSTOWN ROVERS: Lewis Mant; Martin Lennon, Finn Kelly, Conor Reaburn; Alan Landy, Daithi Carroll, Jamie O’Callaghan; Marc Ward, Jason Monaghan; James Russell (0-1), Ryan Ward (1-2); David Finn (1-0); Colm Murphy (0-1), Glen Matthews (0-4), Euan Woodlock (1-1). SUBS: Peter Reid for Woodlock, Paul Carrie for Reaburn, Alan Matthews for Landy, Graham Bolland for Murphy, Ronan Tallon for R Ward.

DREADNOTS: Ciaran Cunningham; Alex Bolger, Pop Rath (0-1), Joshua Kirwan; Ciaran Finnegan, Barry Faulkner, Conor Faulkner (0-1); David O’Brien Cian McEvoy (0-1); Conor Shevlin (0-1), Pepe Smith (0-2), Darragh Shevlin; Sam Reilly (0-1), Craig Shevlin (2-2), Cathal Carolan. SUBS: Cathal Lynch for D Shevlin, Oscar McKenna for Carolan, Ciaran Caffrey for Reilly, Fergal Sharkey for Conor Shevlin.