Leinster MFC Preliminary round robin/Westmeath 5-17 Carlow 0-5: Westmeath minor footballers learned little of their full potential in this runaway 27-point win over Carlow at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow, on Saturday. The result sees the winners qualify for a home provincial quarter-final clash with Dublin.
Westmeath found the mark with goals in the eighth minute from Brendan Kelly and four minutes later through Alan Giles.
A third goal just before half-time from Conrad Reilly left the visitors 3-7 to 0-2 in front and completely out of Carlow's range.
In the second half Westmeath added 2-8 to Carlow's 0-3. The game was in its 33rd minute before Padraic Amond scored Carlow's first point from play.
Before the throw-in a minute's silence was observed to the memory of Darren Price, the Westmeath corner back who died in a road tragedy on March 30th.
WESTMEATH: D Quinn; B Arigo, C Gavin, T Warburton; R Doyle, E Doolin, F Reilly; M Flanagan, A Whitney; N Bannon (0-5, four frees), C Reilly (1-2), N Kilcoyne (0-3); B Kelly (1-1), A Gaughan, A Giles (2-3). Subs: C Lynham (0-1) for Giles, D Keenan (0-1) for Flanagan, S Tone (0-1) for Kelly, J Hogan for F Reilly, S Egan (1-0) for Kilcoyne.
CARLOW: M Hennessey; S Gannon, S Mernagh, D McGee; P Farrell, D St Leger (0-1), A Doran; M Morrissey (0-2, both frees), D Kinsella; J Ruth, S Redmond, J Gilligan; E McKenna, P Amond (0-2), G Byrne. Subs: J Keogh for Gannon, J Donoghue for McKenna, E Doyle for Byrne, B Molloy for Doran.
Referee: B O'Shea (Dublin).
