Old Leighlin blitz Rangers
Old Leighlin's Tadhg Roche scored two goals in the win over Mount Leinster Rangers Photo: Thomas Nolan Photography.
A ruthless Old Leighlin put a depleted Rangers to the sword with ease in this group 1 second round game of the senior football championship at Netwatch Cullen Park on Sunday.
Tadgh Roche scored two first half goals while Daragh Fitzgerald and Mikey Bambrick also found the net. In fact, the latter’s goal arrived on 12 seconds when David Bambrick delivered quickly into the big square.
Eoin Doyle scored two points for Rangers who trailed 4-8 to 0-2 at the interval.
The second half was a procession and Roche could well have added two more goals. Dean Grennan in the Rangers goal did well to keep his net intact after the resumption.
Chris Nolan scored the Rangers goal towards the end of the third quarter when he burst through the middle and saw his first shot come down off the crossbar and over the line. It was too little, too late as Old Leighlin cemented their places in the knock-out stages.
T Roche 2-1, C Coughlan 0-7 (3fs), D Fitzgerald 1-1, M Bambrick 1-2, S Kinsella 0-3 (fs), S Taylor, J Dowling, A Amond 0-1
C Nolan 1-0, E Doyle 0-2 (fs),
Steven Scallan; Tadhg O’Neill, Jordan Kelly, Roy Sheehy; Tadhg Roche, Sean Bambrick, Sean Taylor; Ian Atkinson, David Bambrick; Seamus Kinsella, Mikey Bambrick, Cathal Coughlan; James Dowling, Aaron Amond, Darragh Fitzgerald. Subs: Jamie Doyle for Kelly (h/t), Kevin Carpenter for Kinsella (48), Matt Burke for Carpenter (blood 55).
Dean Grennan; Jack Griffith, Michael Joyce, Richard Coady; Sean Joyce, Evan Kealy, Joe Dundon; Jon Nolan, Ed Fenlon; Robert Stafford, Eddie Byrne, Jack Cummins; Conaill Fitzpatrick, Eoin Doyle, Declan Brennan. Subs: Brad Bolger for Fenlon (h/t), Chris Nolan for Fitzpatrick (h/t), Mark Dundon for J Nolan (40), Diarmuid Byrne for Byrne (51), Ted Joyce for Brennan (51).
Marion Hayden (Éire Óg).
