By Connie Kelly
In weather too hot for football, six games were decided at Dilboy Stadium in Boston.
After a very sluggish first half, Aiden McAnespies rolled over a short-handed Wolfe Tones 1-17 to 0-3.
With Martin McNally and Noel McPhillips not available, the Tones gave it everything they had in the first half and were level at three all, after 27 minutes of play. Goalie Morgan Flannagan pulled off some great saves for the Tones and the loss of Danny Carr in the backs just before the half-time sealed the Tones fate.
The second half was just target practice for McAnespies with some fine scores coming from Nigel Regan, Conor McKeever, Joe McNally, Dean Anderson and Darren Farmer.
Victory for Cork
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St. Columbkilles took a 1-4 to 0-5 lead over Cork in the first half of their game, the goal coming from a lovely passing movement by Mickey Barber to Anthony Walsh who buried the ball in the corner of the net, giving Brian Rawl no chance. Paul Dillon, Rory O’Donnell, Mickey Barber and Rory Hannick each added a point. Richie Flemming and Pádraig Driscoll had Cork’s five points.
Cork came out in the second half full of determination and came away with a very convincing win.
Richie Flemming had the game of his life, adding 1-4 to his first half tally of three points.
Frank Delany and Peter Murphy took over at centerfield sending the Cork forward some perfect passes which made their job look easy.
Alan Conlon would hit the Killes second goal late in the half to make it Cork 2-13, Killes 2-5.
Easy for Notre Dame
In Intermediate football, Notre Dame had an easy win over St. Christophers on a score of 5-16 to 1-5.
Donegal 0-11, Connemara Gaels 0-8
In junior football, this was a very good game with Donegal pushed to their limits for most of the hour.
Ryan O’Malley and Bosco Holleran had most of the play at centerfield for the Gaels but some poor shooting by their forwards cost the dearly. John Slattery had three points, two from frees, John Burke and Bosco one each. Laurance Gallagher and Patrick McGill had Donegal’s points to leave it 0-5 to 0-4 at the half.
Bosco added to their lead four minutes into the second half. Paddy McGill pulled one back for Donegal four minutes later and Dermot Ward tied up the game with 10 minutes remaining.
But the Gaels kept the pressure on with an attack on goals resulting in a 50, a 50 that will be talked about for some time to come. It was taken off the hand, passed off and sent over the bar, without the referee seeing it. The play was called back, under protest from the Gaels. The game then took a turn in Donegal’s favor and with points from McGill and Doherty, Donegal held on to win by 0-11 to 0-8.
Other games
Also in Junior football, St. Pats and Wolfe Tones played a 1-7 to 0-10 draw. The Tones were ahead 0-6 to 0-5 at the half but the Pats had a very good second half and good performances by Joe Morrissey, Sean Davoren and Sean Niland for the Tones, Mark Cummins, Keith Doyle and Denis Murtagh.
In the third Junior game the Killes were too strong for Notre Dame winning by 4-12 to 0-7.