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Kehoe good for goals but McGrath has salient points

LEINSTER COLLEGES SH A FIRST ROUND: Coláiste Eoin (Dublin)1-16 St Mary’s CBS (Enniscorthy) 4-4: FULL-FORWARD Seán McGrath, who…

Thu Jan 28 2010 - 00:00

LEINSTER COLLEGES SH A FIRST ROUND: Coláiste Eoin (Dublin)1-16 St Mary's CBS (Enniscorthy) 4-4:FULL-FORWARD Seán McGrath, who finished the game with a tally of 1-10, inspired Coláiste Eoin to an impressive victory over St Mary's CBS at Enniscorthy yesterday afternoon.

The Dublin college dominated for lengthy periods but three goals from centre-forward Colm Kehoe kept St Mary’s in contention, leading to a very tense finish.

With McGrath striking over some excellent points from frees Coláiste Eoin dominated early on but Kehoe’s first goal one minute before the break left the sides level 0-7 to 1-4 at the interval.

Coláiste Eoin built up a 1-12 to 2-4 lead by the 42nd minute but two Kehoe goals in a minute turned things around, with St Mary’s now leading 4-4 to 1-12.

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Just to demonstrate their dominance, however, Coláiste Eoin finished with four unanswered through McGrath, Donal Sutcliffe, Marc Schvitte and Jude McSuibhne to clinch their second-round passage.

COLÁISTE EOIN:S Ó Gairbhaith; J Ó Cinnéide, B Murphy, J MacCionnaith; F Ó Loinsigh, D Sutcliffe (0-1), F MacGashann; J MacSuibhne (0-1), E Ó Braonáin; A Pilkington (0-1), M Schvitte (0-2), A Ó Murchú; E O'Neill, S McGrath (1-10, six frees, two 65s), S Ó Moráin (0-1). Sub: S MacGiollabríde for MacGashann.

ST MARY'S CBS:S Murphy; P Mernagh, L Dunne, D Cullen; J Whitehead, S Kelly, R Farrell; W Furlong, C Clancy (0-1); C Leary, C Kehoe (3-0), S McCormack; S Whelan (0-2), L Roche (1-0), N Murphy (0-1). Subs: A Quigley for Whitehead; R White for Farrell.

Ref eree:J Bennett (Kilkenny).