ACFL Div 6 vs Kinnegad 26th Feb 2012
St Mary Rochfortbridge won their opening game of the Division 6 league after they defeated Coralstown/Kinnegad by 2 points. St Marys, who were at home, got off to a sluggish start and were soon 3 points behind as Kinnegad looked set to dominate. However St Mary's influence began to grow around midfield and good tackling in the forwards led to opportunist scores by Niall Cully and Tom Geraghty. Ian Cunningham added a free before Eddie Alford gave the home side the lead for the first time. St Marys then blitzed Coralstown/Kinnegad for two goals. The first came after a speculative high ball into the Coralstown/Kinnegad goalmouth where Aaron Byrne broke the ball to himself before dummying one defender and coolly slotting the ball into the bottom corner. Just a minute later Aidan Fallon blitzed through the visiting side's defence before finding Byrne whose shot from 15 metres looped over the head of the keeper and into the corner of the net. Kinnegad responded with two points to end the first half and almost netted a goal of their own but for a good save on the line by Devon Whitson.
St Marys led by 2-06 to 0-5 at half-time.
Corlastown/Kinnegad started the second half much like they did the first and scored their own goal after a very soft penalty decision. However the St Mary's defence held out strongly for the remainder of the second half with the visiting side resorting to long range efforts on goals. Two late frees closed the gap but St Marys did enough to close out the game, despite only scoring three points in the second half and squandering a host of good chances, on a score line of St Mary's Rochfortbridge 2-09 Corlastown Kinnegad 1-10.

Team: D Whitson; C Coyle, D Mulligan, T Conroy; A Fallon(0-1) , B O'Sullivan, J Bradley; D Judge, T Geraghty(0-1) ; E Alford (0-2), D Cleary (0-1), G O'Sullivan; N Cully(0-2), I Cunningham(0-2), A Byrne(2-0). Subs Used: J Guiden, A Cunningham, D Darcy.