CONNACHT SFC FIRST ROUND: Castlerea/St Kevin's 1-12 Tourlestrane 1-6: GER HENEGHAN scored nine points as Castlerea/St Kevin's knocked the Sligo champions out of the Connacht championship at Markievicz Park yesterday.

Tourlestrane got a dream start when Gerry McGowan scored a fortuitous goal after five minutes.

The visitors looked sluggish, but they quickly tightened their grip after Heneghan scored his side’s opening point after seven minutes.

Tourlestrane failed to score from the 20th minute until the end of the half as Castlerea bagged a goal and four points, their goal coming from the boot of Nigel Dineen a minute into stoppage time. Castlerea/St Kevin’s led by 1-7 to 1-3 at half-time.

Tourlestrane got the opening two points of the second half, but they didn’t raise a flag again as the Roscommon side tagged on five points to run out easy winners.

CASTLEREA/ST KEVIN'S: G Claffey; P Duignan, N Collins, G McElhone; D Lyons, C Dineen, E Creaton; M Killilea, E Kenny (0-1); S Ryan, N Dineen (1-0), S Heneghan (0-1); R Curran, D Scahill (0-1), G Heneghan (0-9, six frees). Subs: J Duggan for Killilea, N Curran for Creaton, B Carthy for Kenny, S Stenson (0-1)for Curran, Killilea for Duggan, Duggan for Scahill.

TOURLESTRANE: S Gildea; C Neary, N Gaughan, B Kennedy; D Durkin, A McIntyre, S King (0-1); S Dunne, E O'Hara; G Gaughan (0-1 free), S Henry, J Leonard (0-2, one free); B Kirrane, G McGowan (1-1), J Marren (0-1). Subs: D Dunne for Neary; E Haran for O'Hara; A Dunne for Kirrane; S Stenson for Marren.

Referee: V Neary(Mayo).

Next up . . .

On November 8th in the semi-final, Castlerea/St Kevin’s will meet the winners of Sunday’s Mayo decider, (Knockmore versus Charlestown).