Athy side survive scare

COLLEGES FOOTBALL LEINSTER SFC A: Àrdscoil na Trìonòide 3-15 Coláiste Iosagáin 4-6 (after extra-time)  ÀRDSCOIL NA Tríonóide…

COLLEGES FOOTBALL LEINSTER SFC A:Àrdscoil na Trìonòide 3-15 Coláiste Iosagáin 4-6 (after extra-time)  ÀRDSCOIL NA Tríonóide, Athy survived a massive scare to win this first-round qualifier of the Leinster Colleges senior football A championship in dreadful conditions at The Heath last evening.

Darroch Mulhall and Cian Reynolds took the scoring honours for the Athy boys, sharing 2-10 evenly between them in a game that finished just before 6pm under lights on a hard sod and in bitter cold.

ÀRDSCOIL NA TRÌONÒIDE:M Behan; A Bowden, M George, E Luttrell; J Brennan, L Thomas, S Bell; J Farrell, K Feely (1-1); B Conway, L McGovern (0-3, one free), R Waters; N Kelly (0-1), C Reynolds (1-5, four frees), D Mulhall (1-5, one free). Subs: D O'Driscoll for Conway, Conway for Watters, C Mulhall for Reynolds, M Keogh for D Mulhall.

COLÀISTE ÌOSAGÀIN:P Bannon; J Flood, E Lyons, S Hoey; S Murphy (0-1), C Kavanagh, C Murphy; K Bracken, A Ryan; M Brereton, S McCauley (1-2), K McGrath; P Cunningham (1-2, one free), R Galvin (1-0), E Gleeson (0-1, free). Subs: JC Retiff for Gleeson, K Hunt (1-0) for Retiff, Gleeson for McGrath.