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Dublin Colleges leave it late

Dublin Colleges... 2-11 St Brendan's, Birr..

Sat Feb 22 2003 - 00:00

Dublin Colleges ... 2-11 St Brendan's, Birr ... 2-10When St Brendan's midfielder Neil Rogers swept his side two points in front with a goal in the 59th minute they looked to have caused a minor upset in the Leinster Colleges SHC A quarter-final in Carlow yesterday.

But in three injury-time minutes Dublin Colleges pocketed three points, Niall Paget clipping over the first from a free, then Lucan CBS's Aidan Glennon notched a superb equaliser and an equally good winner.

Dublin Colleges led 1-4 to 0-6 at half-time against the run of play. St Brendan's were deservedly 0-4 to 0-1 to the good after 10 minutes but shot 10 first-half wides playing with the wind. The Dublin side hit the front for the first time when Graham Morris hit a goal from a penalty.

Five minutes after the restart St Brendan's should have had a goal but Dylan Hayden's kicked effort went wide. From the puck-out Michael Carton hit a terrific goal for a 2-5 to 0-6 lead for Dublin Colleges. St Brendan's, however, were 1-10 to 2-6 in front at the end of the third quarter, Christopher Leonard's one-handed strike yielding a 41st minute goal.

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Points from Peadar O'Laoire and Paget inched Dublin Colleges a point ahead by the 48th minute and so it remained until Rogers whipped the sliothar to the Dublin net after Paul Cleary had dropped a long-range free into the goalmouth.

Dublin Colleges will play the winners of the Wexford derby between St Peter's and Good Counsel in the semi-final.

DUBLIN COLLEGES: A Nolan; R Kelly, S O'Sullivan, P Bergin; G O'Meara, N Paget (0-3, one free), D Reilly; A McCrab (0-1), C Brugha; P O'Laoire (0-5, 3 frees), G Morris (1-0), Michael Griffin; P Carton, M Carton (1-0), A Glennon (0-2). Subs: C Billings for Griffin, I Fleming for P Carton.

ST BRENDAN'S, BIRR: M Mulrooney; R Carroll, C O'Callaghan, W Cooney; M Verney, P Cleary (0-1), T Corcoran; N Rogers (1-3, 2 frees), J Bergin; C Leonard (1-0), S Larkin (0-1), K Liffey (0-2); J Masterson, D Hayden (0-2), K Hehir. Subs: C Colohan for Corcoran, G Ryan (0-1) for Masterson, C Coughlan for Cooney, M Quinlan for Colohan.

Referee: P Ahern (Carlow)