Burt go away to O'Donnell Park and topple St Eunan's

Burt picked up two good points on the road in Letterkenny

placeholder image — Burt picked up two good points on the road in Letterkenny

The winners led 0-6 to 0-4 at the break but a long ball from Aidan McKinney sailed into the Letterkenny net five minutes from time and that was the clinching score

Wasteful St Eunan’s will rue 16 wides as they were edged out by youthful Burt in a well-contested affair in O’Donnell Park, Letterkenny on Friday night. .

The winners led 0-6 to 0-4 at the break but a long ball from Aidan McKinney sailed into the Letterkenny net five minutes from time and that was the clinching score.

Burt opened the scoring with two points from Ciaran Porter and Johnny Lambe and Gavin Forde replied for the home side. Kieran Brady pointed two frees as Burt led by 0-4 to 0-2 after 15 minutes.

Burt’s Callum Purves swapped points with Lambe and Matt Ahern and Burt got the final score of the half from Brady. Burt opened up a four-point lead with two pointed frees from Brady.

But Eunan’s levelled matters with two points from Cathal O’Brien and two points from Brendan Gaffey to leave the sides level with five minutes left. But McKinney’s somewhat fortunate goal opened up a three-point lead.

Eunan’s mounted a late charge with Kevin Kealy pointing for the home side and McKinney getting Burt’s last score.

Cathal O’Brien hit Eunan’s final point as they made a last surge, and it took two great saves from Paul Burns to deny Oisin Randles and Kealy a late winner.

Burt scorers: Kieran Brady 0-5,4f; Aidan McKinney 1-1; Ciaran Porter 0-2; Callum Purves 0-1.

St Eunan’s scorers: Cathal O’Brien 0-3; Brendan Gaffey 0-2; Johnny Lambe 0-2; Kevin Kealy 0-1; Gavin Forde 0-1; Matt Ahern 0-1.

St Eunan’s: Daire McBride; Mark Mulholland, Conor Neely, Lorcan Heaphey; JP Curran, Kevin Kealy, John MacIntyre; Cormac Finn, Sean Halvey; Johnny Lambe, Cathal O’Brien, Matt Ahern; James O’Donnell, Eoin Scanlon, Gavin Forde.

Subs used; John Kealy, Conor McVeigh, Brendan Gaffey, Oisin Randles, Matthew Lambe.

Burt: Paul Burns; Gareth Quinn, Christy McDermott, Kevin Glenn; James Donaghey, Caelan McDermott; Kevin Curran; Dara Grant, Callum Purves; Aidan McKinney, Kieran Brady, Oisin Kerr; Patrick Curran, Gavin McGrath, Ciaran Porter.

Subs used: Michael Doherty.

Referee: Trevor Maloney (Buncrana)