Edenderry 0-11 Rathnew 0-12
Wicklow champions Rathnew edged into the quarter finals of the Leinster club football championship at Tullamore this afternoon when they came from five points down to beat Edenderry by 0-12 to 0-11 in a spiky encounter.
Anything other than a home win for the Offaly club looked all but impossible after Edenderry dominated the first half to lead by 0-9 to 0-5, but Rathnew increased their intensity after the restart and gradually wore down their opponents, securing the win at the death thanks to a close-range free from Jody Merrigan.
Edenderry: Cormac Hurley; S Pender, A Pender, D Hanlon; A Mahon, C Byrne, S Moriarty (0-01); R Dalton, S Guing (0-01); O Lawton, D Kelly, K McGuinness; J Hayes, A McDonnell (0-01), S Doyle (0-08, 0-03 frees).
Subs: G Blong for S Pender (44 bc), Ciarán Hurley for Kelly (44), S Cullen for Moriarty (52), M Young for Lawton (53)
Rathnew: P Dignam; W Kavanagh, J Snell, P Merrigan; E Glynn (0-01), R O’Brien (0-01), J Manley; J Stafford, A Merriman; E Doyle (0-04, 0-03 frees), L Glynn (0-01), T Smyth (0-01); N Mernagh (0-01), J Merrigan (0-02, 0-01 free, 0-01, ’45), S Byrne.
Subs: G Merrigan (0-01) for Kavanagh (30), J Byrne for Merriman (43 bc), P Ellis for Byrne (58)
Referee: Fergal Barry (Kildare)
