Maur's out- classed by Crokes
Kilmacud Crokes 2-11 St Maurs 0-6 FORMER All Ireland champions, Kilmacud Crokes overcame the loss of key players in Paul Griffin, Darren Magee, Mark Davoren and Mark Vaughan to book their place in the last sixteen.
The Stillorgan men were a goal up inside the first minutes when Pat Burke, having taking a ball off Longford star Brian Kavanagh, shot low into the left-hand corner.
And Burke topped that with an even better score on 21 minutes when, having collected possession off a Maurs kickout, he took the ball on some 30 metres before smashing the ball into the roof of the net.
That left Maurs trailing 2-7 to 0-3 at the interval, but following the introductions of their two underage stars, Danny Byrne and Vinny Whelan, along with Mark McGrath, Maur's gave a better account of themselves in the second half, with Chris Carthy and McGrath contributing some good scores.
Nonetheless, with Dublin under-21 hurler Barry O'Rorke and Kavanagh both on song, Paddy Carr's men ran out convincing winners in the end. KILMACUD CROKES: D Nestor; N McGrath, C Lamb, B McGrath; R Ryan, C O'Sullivan, K Nolan; N Corkery, B Hanamy; L Og O hEineachain, L McBarron, P Burke 2-2; R Cosgrove 0-2 ( 0-1f), B Kavanagh 0-3, B O'Rorke 0-4 ( 0-1f). Subs: M Coughlan for Burke ( 26min), A Carr for Nolan ( ht), E Culligan for Ryan ( 55), J Magee for Corkery ( 57), ST MAUR'S: Mark Butterly; Padraig Butterly, Eoghan Bollard, Cathal Sweetman; Oisin McGinty, Niall Walshe, Ronny Maguire; Robert Kelly, Gerry Archer; Conor Maguire, Graham Kirk, Ciaran Reddan; Chris Carthy 0-3 ( 0-2f), Chris Moore, Julian Sweetman. Subs: Vinny Whelan for McGinty ( 26), Danny Byrne for Archer ( 38), Barry Cronin for Bollard ( 43), David Carrick for Kirk ( 47), Mark McGrath 0-2 for J Sweetman ( 50). REFEREE: Dermot Deasy.
