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St Lomans Mullingar 1.12 Tyrrellspass 0.10

St Lomans started their Division 1 campaign with an away game against Tyrrellspass on Saturday last in dry but cold conditions. The match was a re-run of the county final last year and similarly it was close fought encounter with Lomans prevailing by a score line of 1.12 to 0.10

Due to players being unavailable due to other commitments this was a young St Lomans team and the newcomers acquitted themselves very well no more so that debutant corner back Jack Tyrrell who had a fine game in a defence superbly marshalled as always by Paddy Dowdall.

The first half was close with St Lomans keeping in front through the consistent accuracy of Ronan O’Toole who had a fine game all through. The highlight of the first half was a well worked goal started in defence by Paddy Dowdall and finished to the net by James Cox. This goal was the difference between the two teams at half time.

The second half was a more physical affair and after an injury to Gerry Grehan in the first half Lomans also lost Shane Flynn and Sean Flanagan to injuries. However Ciaran Lynam was showing he has lost none of his great ball winning and passing abilities providing a link between defence and attack the Blues tagged on further scores with Ronan O ‘Toole again prominent on the scoresheet. The forced substitutions allowed Luke Dempsey and his management team the chance to blood a number of players at this level for the first time and Kevin Regan and Declan Colgan made fine contributions from the bench.

St Lomans despite being reduced to fourteen men for most of the second half ran out five point winners for a winning start to the defence of their league title.

Team & Scorers Stephen Gallagher, Eoghan O’Keeffe, Gerry Grehan (Capt), Jack Tyrrell, Chris Gilbert, Paddy Dowdall, David Whelan, Conrad Reilly (0.01), Sean Flanagan, Mickey Gleeson, Ronan O’Toole (0.07), Kieran Lynam (0.02), James Cox (1.01), Billy O Loughlin (0.01), Shane Flynn.

Subs used Mark Browne for Gerry Grehan, Kevin Regan for Shane Flynn, Johnny Mee for Mickey Gleeson, Declan Colgan for Sean Flanagan.