01 February 2010


There were wins for Westmeath, Kildare and Carlow IT in yesterday's Kehoe Cup quarter-final action.

Kevin Martin made a winning start to his reign as Westmeath manager when the Lake County edged out Down by 0-19 to 0-18 in Kinnegad. The Clonkill pair Andrew Mitchell and Brendan Murtagh scored 0-13 between them as the home side recovered from a slow start to progress to the last-four.

Westmeath's second quarter recovery saw them lead by 0-12 to 0-8 at half-time, but with Paul Braniff in terrific scoring form - he bagged 0-11 - the visitors roared back to take a 0-16 to 0-15 lead on 59 minutes before Westmeath regained the lead before the end.

Andy Comerford's Kildare had to work hard for their 1-15 to 1-8 victory over Louth in Darver. The sides were level on 1-3 to 0-6 after 20 minutes with Gary Rellis finding the net for Louth, but the visitors took control before half-time with points from Donal Maloney, Tony Murphy and Martin Fitzgerald, as well as a goal from the latter, and they never looked in any danger after that.

Carlow IT are also through to the last-four after a 1-15 to 1-12 victory over Seamus Qualter's Roscommon at the Carlow college grounds.

The teams were level on 1-4 to 0-7 at the interval with Mark Egan scored the Carlow goal after 23 minutes. A goal from full forward John Coyne in the 55th minute kept Roscommon in it, but the home side did enough to eek out the win with Egan top-scoring with 1-4 from play and Neil Foyle weighing in with 0-5.