Greenfield Foods Senior Football Championship Round 3B

Magheracloone 0-10 Castleblayney 0-9                                 14/9/18

Magheracloone booked their place in the SFC semi-finals with a second one-point win inside a week against Castleblayney in Inniskeen on Friday night. Six days after winning a similarly low-scoring derby against Carrickmacross, Magheracloone just held on to oust Blayney. The Mitchells were 0-4 to 0-3 up at the end of a first half that saw Blayney fail to take a few goal chances and although Martin McElroy and Dermot Malone hit seven points between them, the Faughs were left to rue those near misses. Alan McCahey hit 0-6 for Magheracloone and with Paudie McMahon landing a crucial point late on, last year’s beaten finalists advanced to the last four for the third consecutive year.

Magheracloone: J Kirk; P McArdle, P Ward, J Lambe; J McMahon, M Jones, P Lambe; M Metzger (0-1), J Kieran (Capt.); A Kieran (0-1), J Ward, P McMahon (0-2); B Kieran, L Óg Murray, A McCahey (0-6, 5f).

Subs: G Doogan for P Ward (black card, 43 mins), P Kirk for Murray, P Tuite for B Kieran (both 45), C McKeown for P Lambe (57).

Castleblayney: P McBennett; B Flanagan, B Hanratty, F Rafter; D McArdle (0-1), F Malone (0-1), K Duffy; M Treanor, J Beattie; K Mackin, D Malone (0-2), D McMahon; C Hanratty, C Brady, M McElroy (0-5, 4f).

Subs: P Finnegan for McMahon (26), E McCann for Rafter (H-T), M Kelly for Mackin (34), B McElroy for Brady (43), P Treanor for Beattie (inj., 49).

Referee: D Hurson (Drumhowan).