Na Fianna 2-21
Ballyboden St Enda’s 1-21
All Ireland champions Na Fianna were reduced to 14 men but still managed to complete their third successive victory in the Dublin Senior 1 hurling championship against Ballyboden St Enda’s at Parnell Park on Saturday.
The winners were 2-13 to 1-11 ahead at the intervals thanks to a brace of goals from Tom Brennan to more than negate the early Ballyboden strike through David Keogh.
However, the cat was thrown among the pigeons with the sending off of Sean Burke after half-time as it gave Enda’s renewed hope of not just getting back into the game but catching their opponents on the hop.
However the Mobhi Road outfit are not national champions for no reason and they brought all their experience to bear in seeing out this tricky situation to ensure they advance with maximum points.
Scorers – Na Fianna: T Brennan (2-2); C Currie (0-6, 0-5f); P O’Dea (0-4); J Meagher (0-3); C McHugh, C McCarthy (0-2 each); C Stacey, G King (0-1 apiece) Ballyboden St Enda’s: D Gleeson (0-7, 0-5f); J Lambert (0-4, 0-2f); N McMorrow (0-3, 0-1f); D Keogh (1-0); C Dooley (0-2f); F Ryan, J McGuire, N Ryan, J Madden, F Murphy (0-1 apiece).
Crokes too strong for Northside rivals
Kilmacud Crokes 0-25
St Vincent’s 1-14
Southside kingpins Kilmacud Crokes annexed their third successive win in Group 2 of the Dublin Senior 1 Hurling Championship when easily accounting for northside rivals St Vincent’s by eight points at Parnell Park on Friday night.
Crokes took the initiative against their very defensively-orientated opposition with Caolán Conway, Oisín O’Rorke, Brendan Kenny and Fergal Whitely all scoring two points from play to give their side a 0-13 to 0-5 advantage at the sound of the short whistle.
Dublin star John Hetherton got in for a Vincent’s goal shortly after the resumption to raise hopes of a comeback but the Crokes ability to keep firing over points saw their advantage grow to undermine such notions of having a closely contested end to the game.
Scorers – Kilmacud Crokes: O O’Rorke (0-6, 0-4f); B Kenny (0-5); C Conway, F Whitely, M Roche (0-3 each); B Hayes (0-2); C Ryan, R Hayes, B Scanlan (0-1 apiece). St Vincent’s: J Hetherton (1-2); B Bolger (0-5, 0-3f); C Burke (0-3); D Perry (f), S Mulcahy, K Ryan, T Connolly (0-1 apiece).
