Horeswood dig deep for replay

Leinster SFC Round One/Moorefield 0-10 Horeswood 1-7: Wexford champions Horeswood staged a spirited recovery to earn a replay…

Leinster SFC Round One/Moorefield 0-10 Horeswood 1-7: Wexford champions Horeswood staged a spirited recovery to earn a replay to reach the Leinster semi-final, at Newbridge.

Moorefield went ahead with scores from Michael Treacy and Kildare star Ronan Sweeney, who converted a free.

Former Wexford ace Leigh O'Brien scored first for Horeswood from a placed ball, but Moorefield pulled clear towards the end of the half with another score from Treacy and a long-range effort by Ross Glavin. They scored five times without reply in the closing minutes and led by 0-8 to 0-2 at half-time.

Horeswood rallied midway through the second half when Jim Wall found the net from close range.

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Glavin kept Moorefield ahead with another point after Darren O'Reilly had pointed.

However, Horeswood stuck to their task and were rewarded when Ciarán Deely converted his third free in injury-time.

MOOREFIELD: T Corley; I Lonergan, K O'Neill, P O'Flynn; K Duane (capt), G Naughton, J Lonergan; R Glavin (0-3), D Flynn; M Treacy (0-3), R Sweeney (0-2, frees), P Murray (0-1, free); P Behan, D Whyte (0-1), P Wolfe. Subs: L Callaghan for I Lonergan, J Eustace for O'Neill, F Hanniffy for Wolfe, A Melia for Naughton.

HORESWOOD: D Hartley; N Murphy, J Hearn, E Murphy; Darren O'Reilly (capt, 0-1), L O'Brien (0-3, two frees), S Collins; T Howlin, G Conway; D Shannon, C Deely (0-3, frees), N Collins; J Wall (1-0), Derek O'Reilly, PJ Banville. Subs: J Keating for N Collins, B Roche for Darren Shannon, David Shannon for Keating.

Referee: J Banville (Longford).