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Both captains and the match referee prior to throw-in
Our Lady’s Castleblayney 3-16
SW Donegal 2-6
Our Lady’s Castleblayney proved too strong for last year's surprise semi-finalists South West Donegal in this delayed first round Group A game in the Danske Bank MacRory Cup yesterday afternoon in Loughmacrory.
The boys from the western seaboard got off to a fine start with a well-taken goal from Michael Gallagher after four minutes. But the rest of the half was dominated by Our Lady’s with seven different players accumulating their 0-10 to 1-3 interval advantage.
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Castleblaney started the run with a two pointer free from Charlie Mone and the midfielder added a similar score 16 minutes in to make it 0-6 to 1-1 with Shane Sweeney tagging on a point for Southwest.
Scores each from Oliver Kelly, Shane Byrne, James Ennis (free) and Alex McGinnity followed before Donegal goalie Cian McConnell landed a two pointer free in added time.
A goal within five minutes of the restart from Pauric Carville was cancelled by Southwest when a long-range free from McConnell was deflected into the net by Gavin Sweeney.
However Our Lady’s quickly hit back with goals each for Ryan Lynch and Alex McGinnity and led by 3-13 to 2-5 with ten minutes to go and Mone finished off a good day for the Monaghan school with his third two pointer of the game.
Next week sees a Donegal derby with Southwest taking on Abbey Vocational on Friday evening in Convoy while Our Lady's will look to build on yesterday’s result when they meet St Michael's Enniskillen earlier in the week.
South West: Cian McConnell; Niall Roarty, Enda Gallagher, Chris O’Donnell; Jack Elliot, Dathi Molloy, Conor Farrell; Cathal Mac Aoidh, Alan Doherty,;Gavin Sweeney, Stephen McDevitt, Lewis Cunnea; Danny McCready, Shane Sweeney, Michael Gallagher.
Our Lady’s Castleblayney: R Lynch 1-2, A McGinnity 1-1, P Carville 1-0, C Mone 0-6 (3 tpfs), O Kelly 0-3, E Treanor, S Byrne, J Ennis (f) and S McDevitt 0-1 each.
Southwest scorers: M Gallagher 1-1 G Sweeney 1-0, D McGready (1f) and C McConnell (tpf) 0-2 each, S Sweeney 0-1
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