Updated 7.20pm
LAST YEAR’S KERRY senior football finalists Killarney Legion have exited this year’s championship after a 3-12 to 2-12 defeat in Round 3 this afternoon against Kerins O’Rahillys.
In a game played at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney, Kerins O’Rahillys made all the running from the start and were in front 1-9 to 0-3 at the interval with Barry John Keane striking their goal.
John Ferguson raised their second green flag in the 44th minute to push them 2-12 to 0-5 in front and when Ferguson hit the net again in the 51st minute, they looked out of sight with a 3-12 to 0-8 advantage.
Legion mounted a last-ditch attempt to salvage themselves as they hit 2-4 without reply. The goals came from Mike O’Sullivan and Kevin Breen but Kerins O’Rahillys survived. James O’Donoghue hit 0-4 as Killarney Legion departed.
The curtain-raiser today saw Rathmore defeat St Kieran’s by 1-18 to 0-20 after extra-time. The crucial goal arrived in extra-time for Rathmore courtesy of attacker Mark Reen.
They were in front 1-17 to 0-15 at the midway mark of extra-time and held off a St Kieran’s scoring spree to triumph.
Aidan O’Mahony looked to have notched the winning point in normal time for Rathmore but goalkeeper Sean Óg Ó Ciardubháin struck the levelling score for St Kieran’s to leave it 0-13 apiece at the end of normal time.
Last Sunday’s Munster senior football final man-of-the-match Paul Geaney was key in helping Dingle book a Kerry senior football quarter-final place last night.
Geaney hit the net twice – one goal in either half – and finished with a 2-3 tally that matched his exploits in Fitzgerald Stadium for Kerry last Sunday, as Dingle ran out 2-13 to 1-11 victors over Milltown-Castlemaine in their Round 3 tie at Austin Stack Park.
Dingle trailed 1-7 to 1-5 at the break but turned it around to win by five points with another Kerry senior Mikey Geaney contributing 0-5 for the West Kerry side.
At the second game at the Tralee venue, 2014 Kerry senior champions Austin Stacks advanced to the last eight stage with a 0-21 to 1-13 success over divisional team West Kerry.
Kieran Donaghy bagged 0-2 for an Austin Stacks team whose top scorers were David Mannix (0-5) and Daire O’Brien (0-3).
Sean Micheál Ó Conchúir – part of Kerry’s recent Munster junior title winning team – fired 1-7 for West Kerry.
The quarter-final line up has now been completed:
Quarter-finalists: Dr Crokes, Kenmare District, Mid Kerry, South Kerry, Dingle, Austin Stacks, Rathmore, Kerins O’Rahilly’s.
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