LENISTER COLLEGES: St Peter's College cruised to a comfortable win, 5-20 to 1-5, over Boyne CS in their 'A' senior football championship opening-round tie at Athy yesterday.
By the end of the opening quarter, St Peter's had moved into a 0-5 to 0-1 lead and two goals in a two-minute spell from Johnny Murphy and Stephen Banville eased them into a 2-7 to 0-1 lead after 19 minutes. A further goal from Neil McDonald seven minutes before the break helped them into a 3-11 to 0-2 interval lead.
Wayne Leonard pulled a goal back for Boyne CS after the restart but St Peter's added goals through McDonald and Emmett Rice.
ST PETER'S COLLEGE: P Murphy; T Hore, C Quigley, N O'Gorman; D Gannon (0-2), A Murphy (0-5), S Fallon (0-2); P O'Leary (0-1), E Rice (1-1); J Murphy (1-2) N McDonald (2-1), S Dempsey; R Doran (0-1), P Waters (0-3), S Banville (1-2). Subs: L Creane for Dempsey; N Murphy for Hore.
BOYNE CS: B O'Callaghan; F Moore, G Smith, J Byrne; P Donoghue, G Geoghegan, J Kelleher; E Dunne (0-1), P Flanagan; K Peppard, M Burke, R Maguire; M Lynch (0-2), W Leonard (1-2), D Dixon. Subs: A Farrelly for Lynch; M Martin for Byrne.
Referee: F Barrett (Kildare).
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