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MTU Cork’s Ryan Deasy gathers the sliothar ahead of Garda College’s Shane Fitzgibbon. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n\n
MTU Cork 2-20<\/p>\n
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Garda College 0-13<\/p>\n
MTU Cork pushed on impressively in the second half to see off Garda College on Thursday night, topping Group B of the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup.<\/p>\n
While the hosts\u2019 half-time advantage was 0-11 to 0-10 \u2013 having almost fallen four points behind coming up to the break \u2013 they asserted their supremacy after the restart. <\/p>\n
Aaron McEvoy\u2019s 57th-minute goal, following good work from Darragh O\u2019Sullivan, Ronan Walsh, Diarmuid Healy and Alan Walsh, put them into a 1-12 to 0-11 advantage and they gained confidence from there.<\/p>\n
When Walsh netted on the three-quarter mark, with hardworking midfielder Joe Egan the architect, the lead was 2-14 to 0-13 and doubts about the outcome dissipated.<\/p>\n
However, a home victory was not always the formality that the bookmakers had decreed beforehand. Having won away to UCC as outsiders a week previously, this time the hosts found themselves as the unbackable favourites in the sights of visitors who could certainly play.<\/p>\n
Watergrasshill\u2019s D\u00e1ire O\u2019Leary, who is set to be included in Cork\u2019s panel for the Allianz Hurling League, played centre-back for the boys in blue and curbed Healy for much of the first half \u2013 he even outscored his former Imokilly team-mate two to one in the opening period.<\/p>\n
With Cian Boyle a lively outlet in attack, the visitors led on occasion in the early stages and didn\u2019t trail by more than a point in that first half. In the 27th minute, when they led by 0-9 to 0-8, they might have even had a goal \u2013 great work for Ciar\u00e1n Kirwan led to a chance for Daniel but, while the ball went past goalkeeper Grantis Bucinskas, Tadhg O\u2019Leary Hayes took it off the line.<\/p>\n
MTU Cork’s Ryan Deasy gathers the sliothar ahead of Garda College’s Shane Fitzgibbon. Picture: Eddie O’Hare<\/p>\n
While Boyle put the resultant 65 over to make it 0-10 to 0-8, MTU finished the half well. A long ball from excellent centre-back Darragh O\u2019Sullivan was won by Johnny Murphy, who was fouled for a free that Mikey Finn coverted \u2013 his fourth \u2013 and then he benefited from good play by Joe Egan and Healy to level.<\/p>\n
The clock had ticked into the red by then but there was still time for Finn to land another from halfway to send the home side in leading.<\/p>\n
McEvoy\u2019s second goal in as many games owed much to Walsh\u2019s aerial ability and the Kanturk man \u2013 also set to be given a chance in the league \u2013 used his strength to good effect when Egan set him up.<\/p>\n
A third goal might have accrued \u2013 Garda goalkeeper Jason O\u2019Dwyer saved brilliantly from Walsh \u2013 but with the metronomic Finn continuing to keep the points coming while McEvoy finished with 1-5, MTU were comfortable in the end.<\/p>\n
The 13-point margin at the end provides some succour for UCC \u2013 a draw would suffice for them in next week\u2019s clash with Garda in Templemore to determine second place.<\/p>\n
\n Scorers for MTU Cork: M Finn 0-10 (0-7 f, 0-1 65), A McEvoy 1-5, A Walsh 1-1, J Murphy 0-2, R Deasy, D Healy 0-2 each.<\/p>\n
\n Garda College: C Boyle 0-5 (0-2 f, 0-1 65), R Stapleton 0-3, D O\u2019Leary 0-2, D Hand, C Kirwan, T Doyle 0-1 each.<\/p>\n
\n MTU CORK (Cork clubs unless stated): G Bucinskas (Kanturk); F O\u2019Connell (St Catherine\u2019s), J O\u2019Brien (Fermoy), T O\u2019Leary Hayes (Midleton); C Ryan (Brickey Rangers, Waterford), D O\u2019Sullivan (Ballinhassig), R Walsh (Kilmoyley, Kerry); J Egan (Moycarkey-Borris, Tipperary), M Finn (Midleton); R Deasy (Ballymartle), D Healy (Lisgoold), R O\u2019Connor (Feenagh-Kilmeedy, Limerick); A Walsh (Kanturk), J Murphy (Dromina), A McEvoy (Graigue-Ballycallan, Kilkenny).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: D O\u2019Leary (Ballincollig) for Ryan, J Galvin (\u00c9ire \u00d3g) for O\u2019Connor (both 41), R Troy (Newtownshandrum) for Egan, E Varian (Glen Rovers) for O\u2019Connell (both 54), R Leahy (St Mary\u2019s Clonmel, Tipperary) for Deasy (58).<\/p>\n
\n GARDA COLLEGE: J O’Dwyer; C Langan, M Carey, J Mulqueen; S Fitzgibbon, D O’Leary, L Carr; T Doyle, D O’Reilly; C Kirwan, R Molloy, D Hand; J Doyle, C Boyle, R Stapleton.<\/p>\n
\n Subs: O Ryan for Doyle (44), L Dunne for Kirwan (49), D Brennan for Langan (51), D Bohan for Doyle, D Ryan (both 58).<\/p>\n
\n Referee: K Guina (Limerick).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MTU Cork 2-20 Garda College 0-13 MTU Cork pushed on impressively in the second half to see off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-246831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cork-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}