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Crowley sinks Mayo
penalty spot in the 35th minute. Jason Doherty added a free and Mayo were one point behind at half-time.
But Crowley scored his goal three minutes after the break after a pass from Keane. And O’Shea and Geaney added two quick-fire points to push Kerry 1-12 to 2-5 ahead.
Shanahan got red for a second yellow when he fouled Cillian O’Connor in the 51st minute. Crowley suffered a similar fate with 16 minutes remaining and despite a late O Beaglaioch black Kerry held on for a priceless victory.
SCORERS – Mayo: Diarmaid O’Connor 2-1 (1-0 pen), Jason Doherty 0-3 (3f), Cillian O’Connor 0-2 (2f), Evan Regan 0-1 (f), Barry Moran 0-1, Andy Moran 0-1 (f). Kerry: Gavin Crowley 1-0, Barry John Keane 0-3, Sean O’Shea 0-3 (0-1 45), Paul Geaney 0-3, Micheal Burns 0-2, Barry O’Sullivan 0-1, David Clifford 0-1, Paul Murphy 0-1, Brendan O’Sullivan 0-1.
MAYO: D Clarke; B Harrison, G
Cafferkey, E O’Donoghue; B
Moran, S Coen, P Durcan; J
Gibbons, S Nally; K
McLoughlin, A O’Shea, D
O’Connor; N Douglas, E
Regan, J Doherty. Subs: C
Crowe for Cafferkey (23), C O’Connor for Regan
(46), A Moran for Douglas (52), C Boyle for Nally (52), F Boland for B Moran (63), C Loftus for
Doherty (74).
KERRY: S Murphy; B O’Beaglaoich, J
Foley, S Enright; P Murphy, G Crowley, R
Shanahan; J Barry, B
O’Sullivan; M Burns, S
O’Shea, S O’Brien; D Clif-
ford, P Geaney, BJ Keane.
Subs: J Savage for Clif-
ford (17), B O’Sullivan for
O’Brien (44), A Barry for
Keane (53), M Flaherty for
O’Shea (55), E O Conchuir for
Burns (59), C Coffey for O Beaglaoich (66, black
h es Mayo again
Mayo ..................2-9 Kerry ................1-15
By DARAGH SMALL Media West Ireland
GAVIN Crowley scored the vital goal and the 13 men of Kerry made it two from two in the National Football League Division 1 with a three-point win over Mayo at MacHale Park in Castlebar.
The visitors held a 0-10 to 2-3 lead at half-time, although they could have led by more were it not for Diarmaid O’Connor two goals.
But Crowley scored the crucial goal in the second-half and despite two red cards for Ronan Shanahan and Gavin Crowley, and a late black card for Brian O Beaglaoich Kerry survived.
They raced into a 0-2 to 0-0 early lead with Micheal Burns and Barry John Keane on target. It was an impressive Kerry forward unit and David Clifford could have found the net inside two minutes.
But Mayo responded with a free from Evan Regan to open their scoring in the fifth minute and then Barry Moran tied the game up from distance.
Then Kerry kicked three points in a row with efforts from Sean O’Shea, Barry O’Sullivan and Paul Geaney.
Mayo retained their composure and they were level again in the 12th minute when Diarmaid O’Connor blasted low past Shane Murphy after a pass from Aidan O’Shea.
Kerry went back on the front foot and points from David Clifford, who then went off injured, O’Shea, Keane (two) and Burns pushed them 0-10 to 1-2 in front by the 34th minute.
But Kerry did miss a penalty in the 24th minute
when David Clarke did well to save from O’Shea. card).
Mayo should have been further behind but O’Connor scored another goal, this time from the
REFEREE: Derek O’Mahoney (Tipperary).
Conor Loftus came off the bench to kick three late frees for Mayo but they couldn’t find a way back into the game. And despite Micheal Fitzsi- mons’ second yellow and subsequent red, Mayo fell to third defeat from four league outings. MAYO: R Hennelly (0-1, ’45); C Crowe, G Cafferkey, E O’Donoghue; C Boyle, M Hall, D Drake; S Coen (0-1), A O’Shea; K McLoughlin (0-2), L Keegan (0-1), D O’Con- nor; J Doherty (0-3, 3fs), A Moran (0-1), A Gallagher. Subs: F Boland for O’Connor; C Loftus (0-3, 3fs) for McLoughlin; D Kirby for Doherty; S O’Shea for Gallagher; S Akram for Drake.
DUBLIN: S Cluxton; D Daly, M Fitzsimons, D Byrne; J McCarthy, J Cooper, J Small; B Fenton (0-1), MD Macauley; B Howard, C Kilkenny (0-2), N Scully (1-0); P Mannion (1-1), D Rock (0-6, 5fs), K McManamon. Subs: D Connolly for Kilkenny; C O’Sullivan for MacAuley; C Basquel for Mannion; C Reddin for Howard; P Small for Cooper.
REFEREE: P Neilan (Roscommon).
to a fourth straight victory in the top tier this season.
There were 15,313 in attendance at Castlebar to watch on as Mayo began brightly and after his surprise inclusion from the off, Lee Keegan got forward to kick a fine point as Stephen Rochford’s men kept in touch with the rampant visitors.
But Mannion drilled his shot past Robbie Hennelly and into the Mayo net, and that gave Dublin their cushion at the break. Mayo were still in it, only trailing by five after half-time, but they had to chase the game after that.
Jim Gavin’s strong side showed all of their expe- rience and with Adam Gallagher missing a vital goal opportunity for Mayo, they were punished shortly after.
Rock set up Scully, before he palmed a killer second goal to the Mayo net in the 46th minute, and from here on out there was only ever going to be one winner.
ALLIANZ NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
DIVISION 1 ROUND 2
CLEAR: Mayo forward Neil
Douglas gets his pass away before the intervention of Ronan
Shanahan of Kerry at MacHale Park in Castle-
bar.
DIVISION 1 ROUND 3
CONTEST: Mayo’s Diarmuid O’Connor catches a ball before he is fouled by Dublin’s Jonny Cooper.
Photo: Stephen McCarthy/ SPORTSFILE
Photo: Seb Daly/SPORTSFILE
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