It was a bad weekend for the Connacht counties in Division 1 of the Allianz National League this weekend, with both Mayo and Roscommon falling to defeats. Roscommon were swept aside in Monaghan 2-17 to 1-13 and Mayo were beaten at home by Cavan, 0-15 to 1-14. This leaves Roscommon at the bottom of the table without a point and Mayo in 6th place on 4 points.
Next Saturday night Roscommon face the prospect of a daunting trip to play Dublin in Croke Park at 7pm. Mayo travel to Omagh to play Tyrone on Sunday at 3pm.
The Roscommon and Mayo teams and scorers from the weekend were as follows:
D O’Malley; S McDermott, T Featherston, N McInerney; G Patterson (0-01), S Mullooly, D Murray; T Corcoran, T O’Rourke (1-00); F Cregg, C Devaney (0-02), E Smith (0-01); C Murtagh (0-06, 0-05f), D Smith (0-02), C Connolly.
Subs: U Harney for Cregg (h/t), P Brogan for Featherston (h/t), R Stack for Patterson (h/t), D Murtagh (0-01, 0-01f) for Connolly (50), C Compton for Smith (55), S Killoran for Corcoran (63).
D Clarke; P Durcan, B Harrison, K Higgins; C Boyle, D Vaughan, L Keegan (0-2), T Parsons, D Kirby (0-4); F Boland (0-1), C O’Connor, C O’Shea (0-2); K McLoughlin (0-1, f), A Moran (0-3), C Loftus.
Subs: S Coen for Vaughan (53), S Nally (0-1) for Boland (55), E Regan for Loftus (60), N Douglas for O’Shea (65), J Gibbons for Parsons (70).
In Division 2, Galway enjoyed a fine victory in a high scoring game over Derry in Tuam, 5-15 to 2-15. As a result of this they are now just a point off Kildare in top spot, and they travel to Newry to take on Down on Sunday at 3pm with their hopes of promotion and a place in the Division 2 final very much intact.
The Galway team from Sunday’s win:
R Lavelle; L Burke, D Walsh, C Sweeney; G O’Donnell (0-01), G Bradshaw, J Heaney (1-01); P Conroy, F Ó Curraoin; G Sice (0-02, 0-01 free), T Flynn (1-01), E Brannigan (1-03, 1-00 penalty); D Cummins (1-01), M Daly (0-03), B McHugh (0-02, 0-01 ’45).
Subs: S Walsh (1-01) for Cummins (50 mins), M Lundy for Sice (55 mins), M Farragher for Bradshaw (57 mins), L Silke for Heaney (70 mins), F Hanley for Burke (72 mins), E Tierney for Conroy (74 mins).
In Division 3, Sligo were beaten in Longford 0-16 to 2-7. Sligo were unable to capitalise on the two early goals they scored, and now face Offaly at home at 3pm in their second last game desperately needing a win to keep their promotion ambitions alive.
The Sligo team and scorers from the game was:
Aidan Devaney (0-2, ‘45 and free); Noel Gaughan, Ross Donovan, Charlie Harrison; Keelan Cawley, Neil Ewing (0-1), Kevin McDonnell; Patrick O’Connor, Adrian McIntyre (0-1); John Kelly, Cian Breheny, Eoin McHugh; Stephen Coen (2-0), Adrian Marren (0-2), Niall Murphy (0-1).
Subs:- Daniel Maye for N Gaughan (blood, 31 mins); Stephen Gilmartin for P O’Connor (half-time); Kyle Cawley for J Kelly (54 mins); Gerard O’Kelly-Lynch for C Breheny (54 mins); Pat Hughes for S Coen (56 mins); Brendan Egan for Keelan Cawley (black card, 59 mins); Criostoir Davey for A McIntyre (injured, four minutes into stoppage time).
In Division 4, Leitrim fell to a narrow 2-11 to 0-15 loss to Limerick in Newcastlewest on Sunday. This result sees Leitrim in 5th position in the table on 4 points.
This was the Leitrim team and subs that played on the day:
Brendan Flynn; Paddy Maguire, Alan Armstrong, Matthew Murphy; Wayne McKeon, Donal Wrynn, Oisin Madden; Shane Moran, Mark Plunkett; James Rooney, Emlyn Mulligan, Gary Plunkett; Ronan Kennedy, Damien Moran, Neville O’Donnell. Subs: Pearce Dolan for Shane Moran (25mins), Brendan Gallagher for Damien Moran (49mins), Keith Beirne for Neville O’Donnell (53mins), Conor Gaffney for Gary Plunkett (56mins), Noel Plunkett for Oisin Madden, inj (62mins).
