White hits double as Davis take SFC2 honours

Sat, 27th October 2018

THOMAS DAVIS 4-11 ST MARY'S SAGGART 1-7

Thomas Davis earned promotion to SFC1 for next year in clinical fashion when defeating St Mary's, Saggart by 13 points in Saturday's SFC2 final at Parnell Park.

After a slow start the Kiltipper Road outfit sprung to life late in the opening half and led 1-6 to 0-2 at the break.

It was a margin they never looked like conceding especially when Jim White hit his second goal 30 seconds into the second-half following great interplay by Davis' carved open the Mary's defence.

White's first goal came in injury-time of the opening half when he accelerated through the middle before firing low to the corner of Shane Redmond's net.

Before then Eoin Kirby had slotted two frees and another from play and two points from Ciaran Farrelly had Davis' seven up at the interval.

Four minutes into the second period Thomas Davis were 2-7 to 0-3 in front with points from Davy Keogh and Farrelly following up on White's second goal.

However, Mary's dug in for a spell with scores from James Timmons (free), goalkeeper Shane Redmond (free) and Timmons again cutting the gap.

But Farrelly's converted penalty following a foul on Gavin Carruth at the end of a long-bursting run put pay to any hopes of a heroic Saggart comeback.

With eight minutes to go Mary's got a goal of their own with Alan Marshall finishing very smartly but Davis' got goal number four in the 55th minute when midfielder Eamon Conroy was on target.

SCORERS - Thomas Davis: J White 2-1, C Farrelly 1-3 (1-0 pen), E Kirby 0-4 (0-2f), E Conroy 1-0, G Carruth, D Keogh, J O'Reilly 0-1 each. St Mary's, Saggart: J Timmons 0-3 (0-2f), A Marshall 1-0, B Kelly (0-1f), S Redmond (0-1f), G Murray, R Butler 0-1 each.

THOMAS DAVIS: R Crilly; A Fallon, Brian Kirby, C Murphy; D Keogh, G Carruth, O Kelly; E Conroy, Brendan Kirby; R Deegan, E Kirby, J White; E Lambert, C Farrelly, C Sallier. Subs: M Nolan for Deegan (37), P Boland for Sallier (44), E O’Toole for Lambert (48), J O’Reilly for Farrelly (59), S Kennedy for Conroy (61).

ST MARY’S, SAGGART: S Redmond; I Marron, Colin Finn, A McCabe; A Darcy, P Doyle, S O’Toole; A Brady, S Tynan; C Howard, A Marshall, J Maguire; J Timmons, R Butler, B Kelly. Subs: C Dunne for O’Toole (BC, 24), G Murray for Maguire (ht), Carl Finn for Howard (35), S Walsh for Darcy (43), C Mac Gearailt for Murray (BC, 54), E Mahon for Walsh (58).

REF: J King (Garda).