Naomh Columba blitz St Mary's Convoy with seven second half goals in IFC

Naomh Columba were convincing winners with a ruthless second half display which yielded seven goals against St Mary’s from Convoy in Donegal IFC.

Naomh Columba 7-12
St Mary’s  Convoy 0-10

Following on from last week’s victory over Naomh Bríd, it’s two from two for Patrick J McGinley’s team, while St Mary’s are still on the lookout for a first point having lost to Buncrana in their opener.

It was 0-6 to 0-1 in favour of Naomh Columba midway through the first half with points from Lanty Molloy, two, Eric Carr, Phillip Doherty and a pair from Ryan Gillespie, with Joseph McGill with the reply for the visitors.

St Mary’s John Toye popped over two - one from a mark - before another Carr point in the 27th minute - but Convoy took the last score from  McGill to leave the half-time score 0-8 to 0-4 in favour of the hosts . 

The second half was barely a minute old when a Lanty Molloy pass to Aaron Doherty, who fisted it across goal for Kevin McNern to fist to the net.  

Aaron Doherty got a free before Joe McGill fired over and a Ryan Gillespie free followed by a mark from John Toye.

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Then the goals came in abundance - through Carr, McNern scored his second after a delightful pass from Paul O Hare,  Ryan Gillespie and Molloy. 

St Mary’s mustered points from McGill and Pauric Gordon. O’Hare’s point was followed by a Philip McNern goal - Naomh Columba’s seventh. Eric Carr got his second of the game before Kevin McNern put over the bar as the full-time whistle went.

Naomh Columba scorers: Eric Carr 2-2; Ryan Gillespie 1-4, 1f;  Kevin McNern 2-1; Lanty Molloy 1-2; Philip McNern 1-0; Aaron Doherty 0-1, 1f; Philip Doherty and Paul O’Hare 0-1 each.

St Mary’s Convoy scorers: Joseph McGill 0-5, 1f; John Toye 0-4, 2m; Pauric Gordon 0-1.

Naomh Columba: Padraig Byrne; Pauric Ward, Philip Doherty, Stephen Jones; Eric Carr, Philip McNern,  Pauric Hegarty;  Declan McGuire, Fionn Gallagher; Paul O’Hare, Aaron Doherty,  Kevin McNern;  Ryan Gillespie,  Lanty Molloy, Ryan McNern. Subs: Barry Carr for P Doherty, Pauric Cunningham for R McNern 

St Mary’s Convoy: Mark Gordon; Keelan Gillen, Conal McDermott, John Moore; Conor Bonner, John Doherty, Bryan McNamee, Liam Toye; Pauric Gordon, Liam Prunty, Laurence McMullean,  John Toye;  Corrie Lee Bogan, Joseph McGill, Gavin Sweeney. Sub Peter Blake for Sweeney.

Referee: Val Murray (Aodh Ruadh)