MC ELVANEY’S WASTE & RECYCLING INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.

Inniskeen 1-10, Cremartin 0-9.   

Inniskeen are through to the next round of the intermediate championship while a wasteful Cremartin exit this year’s competition after the Grattan’s 4 points victory in this fairly low-key and at times scrappy affair that was played in Drumhowan on Sunday afternoon last. Cremartin registered a total of 16 wides over the entire contest, 8 in each half and yet Inniskeen found it difficult enough to put them away as the Shamrocks had them under pressure for long periods in the second-half but just could not find the target. Inniskeen’s cause wasn’t helped when they lost Matthew McKenna to injury towards the end of the 1^st half and in his absence the defence struggled in the 2^nd period. Inniskeen led at half-time by 3 points and pushed that out to 5 in the early minutes of the second-half but they too then found scores hard to come by although the closest Cremartin got was to within 3 points going into the final 10 minutes of normal time with both sides guilty of a wasteful approach in those final minutes and Paul Meegan hitting the insurance point with 6 minutes of normal time remaining.

Teams and Scorers: Inniskeen: Padraig Dowdall, Francis McArdle, Robert Lorenz, Cormac Boylan, Colm Meegan 0-1, Matthew McKenna, Seamus Kindlon, Gerard McArdle, Shane Woods 0-1, Paul Meegan 0-2 (1f), Michael Monaghan 0-1, Ciaran McNulty 0-2, Donal Meegan 1-0, Aidan Woods 0-2, Ronan Meegan 0-1. Subs: Michael Fitzpatrick for M McKenna, TJ Byrne for R Meegan.

Cremartin: Damien Lavelle, Eanna Atkinson, Liam Atkinson, Declan Farrell, Cathal Kerr, Ronan Burke 0-1, Paddy McGuigan, Barry Kerr 0-3, Barry Carragher 0-1 (f), Ryan McVicar, Paddy Mc Nally 0-1 (f), Kevin McVicar, Shaun Buckley, Shane Burke 0-1, Johnny McGuigan 0-1. Subs David Hanley 0-1 for S Buckley, John Leonard for R McVicar, Kevin Atkinson for P McNally.                               Referee: Pat McEnaney (Corduff).