Athlone IT 0-11 Cork IT 1-4
ATHLONE IT SECURED the final semi-final spot in this year’s Sigerson Cup with a four-point win over Cork IT.
Playing at home, Athlone went in to half-time with a 0-6 to 0-1 lead over their opponents with Westmeath’s Ger Egan and Kieran Martin amongst the scorers.
Cork senior Ciaran Sheehan scored the only goal of the game after the interval to leave it 0-9 to 1-3 but Athlone held out for the victory.
This year’s final hosts will now play UCC in the semi-final on Friday week February 22nd while DCU play Dublin IT on the same day in the other tie.
Scorers for Athlone IT: Ger Egan (0-3f), Kieran Martin (0-2f) 0-3 each, Frank Burke 0-2, A Coffey, J McGivney, Dan Queeney 0-1 each.
Scorers for Cork IT: Ciaran Sheehan 1-0, Kevin Hallissey, Michael Vaughan 0-2 (0-1f) each.
ATHLONE IT: Gary Connaughton (Westmeath); Eoin Kerins (Galway), Killian Clarke (Cavan), Colm O’Brien (Galway); Levi Murphy (Cavan), Tomás Rahill (Meath), James Dolan (Westmeath); Ciaran Duggan (Galway), Ger Egan (Westmeath); Peter Masterson (Longford), Kieran Martin (Westmeath), Alan Coffey (Westmeath); James McGivney (Longford), Alan Stone (Westmeath), Frank Burke (Galway).
Subs: Diarmuid Maleady (Offaly) for O’Brien, Dan Queeney (Meath) for Masterson, Alan Caul (Dublin) for McGivney.
CORK IT: Andrew O’Donoghue (Cork); Pa Kilkenny (Kerry), Mark Griffin (Kerry), Noel Galvin (Cork); Colin Lyons (Cork), Stephen O’Donoghue (Cork), Peter Daly (Cork); Brendan O’Sullivan (Kerry), James Walsh (Kerry); Ciarán Sheehan (Cork), Sean Finn (Cork), Donagh Leahy (Tipperary); Kevin Hallissey (Cork), Pa Joy (Kerry), Jerry O’Connor (Cork).
Subs: Darragh Treacy (Limerick) for O’Sullivan, Brian O’Regan (Cork) for Lyons, Michael Vaughan (Cork) for Leahy, Damien O’Sullivan (Kerry) for Finn.
