Star-studded Carbery swat aside students’ test

Fielding a team with a liberal sprinkling of inter-county under 21, junior and senior players, Carbery served notice that they will have a big say in the battle for this year’s title after they had a comfortable victory over CIT in the third round of the Cork SFC at Cloughduv last night.

The excellence of county senior captain Graham Canty, who covered every inch of the pitch, Alan O’Connor, Owen Sexton, the O’Driscoll brothers Colm and Kevin and scorer-in-chief Declan Barron ensured the West Cork divisional side had plenty to spare at the end of a lively contest.

To be fair to the students, the final score is a bit flattering to the winners. They more than matched their opponents for effort but didn’t have the firepower up front to finish off some excellent approach work, but it was no fault of Mark Griffin, Donough Leahy, James Walsh, Jerry O’Connor and Kevin Hallissey that they failed.