Legion 1-13 Mid Kerry 0-14 (AET): It took extra time to determine the winners of this Kerry SFC first-round tie in Killorglin, with Legion showing admirable pluck after a slow start to edge Mid Kerry.

IT Tralee recorded their first ever McGrath Cup win over Kerry, while UCC, Cork and Waterford advanced to the semi-finals after Sunday’s action.

Mid Kerry 1-07 Austin Stacks 2-13 

Austin Stacks 1-13 Mid Kerry 2-10

Mid Kerry 1-12 Shannon Rangers 0-7

Kerry 2-21 Sligo 0-10

Cork 2-12 Kerry 1-14 (aet)

They will face tougher examinations during their efforts to retain the Sigerson Cup title but UCC made as positive and productive a start as possible in last night’s first-round tie in the Mardyke.

GLENBEIGH/GLENCAR were crowned Mid Kerry senior football champions for the first time in 36 years in dramatic circumstances at Beaufort on Saturday.

MUNSTER senior club football finalists UCC are just as good as an inter-county side, reckons Dr Crokes manager Harry O’Neill.

HE may have just missed out on leading Kerry to the biggest prize in football last September but Colm Cooper is intent on firing Dr Crokes to All-Ireland Club glory.

IT took over 80 minutes of absorbing action before the contest was settled in Cloughduv yesterday with UCC’s greater energy and ball retention skills proving decisive in this Munster Club SFC quarter-final.

UCC manager Paul O’Keeffe has revealed they never entertained the prospect of persuading Johnny Buckley and Daithí Casey to line out for the third-level outfit in the forthcoming Munster Club SFC.

THERE must have been times in recent years when Dr Crokes pondered if their luckless streak in Kerry deciders would ever cease.

MID KERRY forward Gavan O’Grady is putting college friendships on ice for Sunday’s Kerry senior football decider.

PRESS Harry O’Neill on who has been the driving force behind Dr Crokes march to a second successive Kerry senior decider and the manager doesn’t name anyone of his galaxy of intercounty stars.

FOR a few seconds the crowd erupted — the sight of Seamus Moynihan taking to the Fitzgerald Stadium turf united all Kerry club supporters.

THE glory they experienced in the third-level arena last spring ensured 2011 would always be filled with special memories for the UCC football camp.

FOR a few seconds the crowd erupted — the sight of Seamus Moynihan taking to the Fitzgerald Stadium turf united all Kerry club supporters.

HAVING been the better side for much of the second-half of yesterday’s SFC final, a five-point defeat was cruel on Castlehaven, the late penalty from Daithí Casey, followed by two Gavan O’Grady points, stemming their momentum.

THIS was as routine a quarter-final assignment for Mid Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday as the scoreline suggests.

THIS was as routine a quarter-final assignment for Mid Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday as the scoreline suggests.

KERRY boss Pat O’Driscoll wasn’t in the mood to offer excuses after this footballing lesson at GAA headquarters. Instead he heaped the praise on Tyrone.