GALWEGIANS - 35 CARLOW - 23: After a tremendous start to the season Carlow are now finding the going difficult and this was emphasised clearly at Oak Park on Saturday as the home side went down to a 12- point defeat by visitors Galwegians.
GFormer Irish international Eric Elwood scored a try, three penalties and three conversions in very difficult conditions, his only blemish being a missed conversion from near the sideline.
Elwood scored a brace of early penalties and then in the 13th minute a superb kick out of his own half by Galwegians scrumhalf Bryan Shelbourne was carried on by the superb Michael Swift at number eight who fed Elwood , who went in under the posts and added the points from the conversion. At half-time Co Carlow trailed 23-8 and were in deeper arrears five minutes into the second half when Gerard Brady collected in his own half and raced on unopposed for a try.
GALWEGIANS: G Brady (2 tries); B Liddy, P Duignan, M Murphy, N Carolan; E Elwood (1 try, 3 cons, 3 pens), B Shelbourne; D McFarland, M Uijs, P Bracken, D Browne, J Casserly, B Galvin, J O'Connor (1 try), M Swift. Replacements: G Flannery for Uijs (56 mins), S Kershaw for McFarland (61 mins), J Charlie for Swift (72 mins).
CO CARLOW: B Murphy (1 pen); M Buckley (1 try), M Spiller, R Armstrong, I Dwyer; P Jones, R Jones; P Brennan (2 tries), A Galavan, L Hannon, L O'Byrne, P Holden, W Whitten, D Cox, B Baggott (1 try). Replacements: JJ Waddock for O'Byrne (55 mins), D Hyland for Cox (55), K Corrigan for Hannon (62), J Hannon for Gallivan 73.
Referee: O Trevor, Munster.
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