St Joseph’s secure Connacht crown

St Joseph’s College, Galway 2 Aloysius College, Athlone 1: St Joseph’s survived a second-half comeback from Aloysius College to secure the Connacht Schools "A" Cup in Eamonn Deacy Park yesterday.

Goals from Ben Brennan and Ross Murphy gave “The Bish” a 2-0 half-time lead and they needed that cushion as Aloysius College dominated the second half.

Full back Richie Greene halved the deficit when he met Conor Marlow’s cross with a wonderful header on 54 minutes. But the Athlone outfit were unable to build on that and failed to test goalkeeper James Grealish thereafter, though Aloysius had a big penalty shout turned down with 10 minutes left.