Armagh prove too strong for St MacNissi's

St MacNissi’s

Garron Tower 0-6

St MacNissi’s Garron Tower lost out to a strong St Patrick’s Armagh side as they claimed their first ever BT Casement Cup title at Glenarriff this week.

A player-of-the-match performance from midfielder Michael Lennon and the accuracy from frees by his brother Matthew were key to St Patrick’s Armagh’s success.

Armagh were dominant throughout with their physical presence a huge factor. Tom Marley, Karol Loughran and Paddy Heaney all stood out in a sound team performance.

Garron Tower’s stars were in defence with Sean Hamilton and Sean Cosgrove working hard throughout, while goalie Sean O’Hare kept them in the hunt particularly in the first half.

Although Conor McGarry opened the scoring with a Tower point that was to be their last score until 11 minutes into the second half.

Mattie Lennon was off-colour with some early frees, but he eventually found the range and aided by a 14th minute goal from Conor McNally, Armagh led by 1-6 to 0-1 at the turnover.

A mis-hit from McNally at the start of the second half was picked up by Padraig Rafferty and rifled home, leaving no way back for the Tower.

St Patrick’s Armagh : Michael Carson, Philip Duffy, Caolan Doyle, Jack Lynch, Damien Corvan, Tom Marley, Fintan Corvan, Michael Lennon 0-1, Karol Loughran, Ryan Gribbin 0-1, Paddy Heaney 0-2, Austin Mackle, Matthew Lennon 0-7, 0-5 frees, Pdraig Rafferty 1-0, Conor McNally 1-1. Sub : Adam Toal for P Duffy.

St MacNissi’s : Sean O’Hare, Sean Hamilton, Sean Cosgrove 0-1 free, Michael Mulvenna, Eamon Kerr, Dan Kinney, Eoghan Patterson, Padraig Kerr, Paul Monaghan, Martin McAfee, Philip McKendry, Dominic Sharkey 0-1, Cahir McNaughton, Eamon Heggarty, Conor McGarry 0-4 frees.

Subs: Karl Delargy for P McKendry, Connlaoth McNeill for P Kerr, Matthew White for M Mulvenna, Fionntan O’Connor for E Heggarty.

Referee : Tommy McIntyre