Carndonagh beat Malin to clinch U16 Division 3 title

Carndonagh won the Division 3 U16 county football league final with a six point victory over neighbours Malin at Maurice McMenamin Memorial Park at Ture on Monday night.

Carn had defeated Naomh Columba in the semi-final and Malin overcame Kilcar to set up this all-Inishowen clash in the decider.

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The sides had met already this season in the Inishowen regional competition back in April when Carn also emerged victorious.
Midfielder Tiernan Diver was to the fore for Carn and they held a 0-7 to 0-3 lead at half time.

A competitive second half followed with Michael Borden getting the only goal of the game for Malin, but Carn had a deeper squad and a wider spread of scorers and ran out six-point winners. Both teams will be hopeful of maintaining their good league form and making progress in the county championship which gets underway next Monday night.

Carn scorers: Tiernan Diver 0-4, 1tp; Cameron McLaughlin 0-3; Rocco McDaid 0-2; Cian Lafferty 0-1; Hugh McGinn 0-1; Aaron Doherty 0-1.
Malin scorers: Michael Borden 1-2; Ben McColgan 0-1; Ciaran Collins 0-1; Jay Doherty 0-1.

Carndonagh: Oisin Curran; Oisin Harkin, Gavin Darren, Darragh McLaughlin; Keith Callaghan, Hugh McGinn, Dylan Donaghey; Tiernan Diver, Josh Walsh; Cian Lafferty, Cameron McLaughlin, Aaron Doherty; Jack Canny, Rocco McDaid, Ethan Donaghey. Subs: Calvin Logue for O Harkin; Ethan McLaughlin for J Canny; Liam Doherty for D Donaghey; Thomas Hennessy for C McLaughlin and Donal O'Carroll for A Doherty.
Malin: Keelan McDaid; Daniel O'Kane, Caolan McGeoghegan, George Brennan; Zach McAvenue, Jack McLaughlin, Charlie Atherton; Michael Borden, Shea Hegarty; Ben McColgan, Ciaran Collins, Adrian Doherty; Jay Doherty, Shay Patrick Farren, Lorcan McFeely. Subs: Lorcan Doherty for SP Farren; Conor McLaughlin for J Doherty.
Referee: Daniel Carlin (Lifford)