Skerries put aside their first-round rustiness with a polished display against Sandford Park at Station Road yesterday. In all they ran in 10 tries, most of them in the first half when they had the benefit of a strong wind behind them. It only took Skerries a minute to open their account when scrumhalf Mark Heeney went over and Eoin O'Byrne increased that lead touching down on the right.

Then came a scoring blitz from right centre Damien Kirwan who crossed for four tries, but arguably the best came from flanker James Sherlock who ran on to a reverse pass to score beneath the posts.

Outhalf Conal Keane sent over his sixth conversion to leave it 47-0 at the interval.

Skerries increased their lead in the second period with further tries from Paul White, Stephen Burton and Keane.

Skerries CS: A Murtagh; P White, D Kirwan, M Kirwan, E Jenkinson; C Keane, M Heeney; E O'Byrne, S Burton, B Murphy, R Brick, D Lee, J Crowell, J Sherlock, P Sherlock. Replacements: A Quinn for Lee, C O'Sullivan for Heeney, R Shorthall for Byrne, M Nicholls for Kirwan, R Dempsey for J Sherlock, M Dunne for Brick, M Jenkins for Crowell.

Sandford Park: A Alipour; C Power, N O'Muire, M Elliot, M Conway; I Cairns, B Collins; M O'Donoghue, N McGrath, E Salley, J Foley, O Malone, J Harvey, J Rogers, F Hayes. Replacements: J McKnight for Salley, J McVeagh for Conway.

Referee: G McFadden (ARLB).