Garda overpower CIT in Sigerson Cup

GARDA College braved the elements to cruise past Cork IT in this afternoon’s Sigerson Cup preliminary round fixture.

Sigerson Cup preliminary round

Garda College 0-8

Cork IT 0-3

On a cold, wintry day in Templemore, Garda played against the wind but still led by 0-3 to 0-1 at half-time against a CIT team that registered ten first half wides.

Points from Thomas McDaniel (two) and Eoin Cleary had Garda in control before Eoin Lavers finally opened CIT’s account in the 27^th minute.

CIT’s cause wasn’t helped by early black cards for Jason Lonergan and Dan Daly – and they looked disjointed throughout.

Garda kicked on after half-time and led by 0-7 to 0-1 before CIT ended a long wait without a score when Kevin Fahey landed a point nine minutes from time.

Garda finished the game with 14 men when sub Teddy Doyle was dismissed for a second bookable offence but they had the game wrapped up by then.

Scorers for Garda College: S O’Carroll, E Cleary & T McDaniel (1f) 0-2 each, B Murphy & D Gallagher 0-1 each.

Scorers for Cork IT: K Fahey, E Lavers & B Coakley (f) 0-1 each.

 GARDA: S Murphy (Limerick); S O’Malley (Roscommon), G Petit (Roscommon), J Morris (Cavan); B Kane (Kildare), T Featherstone (Roscommon), P Morris (Cavan); B Murphy (Carlow), D Gallagher (Longford); S O’Carroll (Limerick), A Thormey (Meath), C Fitzmaurice (Roscommon); E Cleary (Clare), P Kelleher (Cork), T McDaniel (Westmeath).

Subs: T Doyle (Kerry) for Fitzmaurice (47), K Tarrant (Limerick) for J Morris (47), G Ennis (Roscommon) for Cleary (58), K Nugent (Offaly) for P Morris (60)

CIT: C Madden (Cork); B Sugrue (Kerry), D Daly (Limerick), S Daly (Cork); P O’Sullivan (Kerry), K Fahey (Tipperary), E Lavers (Cork); I O’Callaghan (Cork), D Meaney (Cork); J Lonergan (Tipperary), K Murphy (Kerry), S O’Sullivan (Cork); D O’Donoghue (Kerry), C O’Keeffe (Cork), M Collins (Cork).

Subs: M Collins (Cork) for Lonergan (b/c 8), C Ó Murchú (Kerry) for D Daly (b/c 15), B Coakley (Cork) for O’Donoghue (inj., 30+2), M Lordan (Cork) for P O’Sullivan (36), E O’Sullivan (Cork) for S O’Sullivan (41), C Kingston (Douglas, Cork) for Lavers (49).

Referee: J Hickey (Carlow)