St Mary's take their reprieve

Colleges SFC Finals/ St Mary's 2-19 St Gerald's 0-7 : St Mary's made no mistake in the replay of the Connacht Colleges senior…

Colleges SFC Finals/ St Mary's 2-19 St Gerald's 0-7: St Mary's made no mistake in the replay of the Connacht Colleges senior football decider.

The Galway city school - who were trailing by a point when the initial decider was abandoned a week earlier - won their third Connacht title in a row in Tuam.

St Gerald's forward Enda Lavelle, who was feared to have suffered a serious neck injury in the first meeting, recovered and was able to start but they were unable to match St Mary's.

The Castlebar school trailed by 0-8 to 0-4 at the interval. St Mary's then upped the tempo and Eoin Concannon got their first goal after 44 minutes before Pádraig Egan got their second five minutes later.

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ST MARY'S: D Curran; A Deacy, C Healy (0-1), J Tierney; S O'Reilly, K O'Connor, J Ruane (0-1); E Hoare (0-2), P Conroy (0-4, two frees); E Concannon (1-3, three frees), V Faherty (0-1), S Kavanagh (0-6); B Grant, D O'Connell (0-1), P Egan (1-0). Subs: O Ó Ceallaigh for O'Reilly (54 mins), J Fitzpatrick for Deacy (54 mins), A Hanley for Concannon (55 mins), S Gibbons for Grant (58 mins).

ST GERALD'S: K Stenson; M Conlon, P Healy, S Keane; F Heavey, N O'Hara, J Cloherty (0-1); P Fitzgerald (0-1), C Gavin; D Griffin (0-2, 45s), S Hopkins, E Lavelle; G O'Boyle, R O'Boyle (0-1, free), T King (0-1). Subs: D Newcombe for O'Hara (half-time), A O'Shea for Fitzgerald (38 mins), D Joyce (0-1) for Heavey (40 mins), G McDonagh for Gavin (45 mins), N Douglas for Keane (53 mins).

Referee: P Carney (Roscommon).