St Pat’s retain MacRory Cup
MacRory Cup Final:
St Patrick’s Dungannon 2-7 Omagh CBS 1-9
St Patrick’s Dungannon retained their MacRory Cup following a hard fought 1 point victory over rivals Omagh CBS at Healy Park.
Dungannon opened the scoring through Kiefer Morgan, but Omagh responded with 3 quick-fire points and a goal from Peter Harte in the 13th minute to put them in a commanding position.
The sides traded points, but the crucial score of the half came just before the break from St Patrick’s midfielder Niall McKenna as he found the net to leave the score 1-06 to 1-03 at the break, with St Patrick’s looking forward to playing with the aid of the breeze in the second half.
Dungannon corner forward Derek Thornton narrowed the gap to 2 after the restart then cooly slotted home a penalty after Niall McKenna was brought down in the large rectangle.
With full time approaching Dungannon held a 3 point advantage and points from Peter Harte and Conan Grugan left the minimum between the sides, but they were unable to find the equalizing score.
St Patrick’s and their coach Ciaran Gourley will now march on to the All-Ireland series where they will be dreaming of repeating their Hogan Cup success of last year.
St Patricks Dungannon: N Morgan; P Muldoon, B Kelly, J Grimley; S McGarrity, G Teague, D Toner; D Lavery, J Loughran; S Small, C Gervin (0-2), L Gervin (0-1); K Morgan (0-3), N McKenna (1-0), D Thornton (1-1). Sub: D Quinn for McGarrity.
Omagh CBS: R McAnenly; D Connolly, S Warnock, F McQuaid; S McCrory (0-1), A O Donnell, S Mullan; C Grugan (0-1), S Harper; P Harte (1-4), R O Neill, B McGarvey; J Donnelly, C Hicks (0-1), R Lynch (0-2). Subs: K McCullagh for Donnelly, T Canavan for Harper.
Referee: J White (Donegal).
