Realt na Mara collected their first brace of league points of Division 2 with a comprehensive victory over Four Masters in Gaelic Park.
Realt na Mara 4 – 14 Four Masters 0 – 7
Darren Doherty opened the scoring for the visitors but Jamie Brennan replied immediately for the home side.Both teams exchanged a brace of points from Diarmuid Spratt and Gary Clancy for Bundoran and Kevin Mc Brearty and Conor McMonagle for the Donegal Town men.
Then on 18 mins Alan Russell made an incisive run and finished well to the net.Another Mc Monagle point was quickly cancelled out by a Clancy free The final score of the half came from a powerful Niall Carr run to leave the halftime score Realt na Mara 1-5 Four Masters 0 -4.
Now playing with a strong breeze the men in black and amber hit 3 quick frees from Clancy and Russell to extend their advantage to seven points.
A McBrearty free on 42 mins was a brief respite as the homeside hit 2-3 without reply with goals from Russell and Brennan and points from Clancy, Brennan and Paul Murphy .As the light began to fade two Jamie Crawford points was all Four Masters could muster with Clancy replying for the Seasiders in between.
As Bundoran’s new Stand began to empty halfback Carr hit the home team’s fourth goal following a good save from Cassidy from a Clancy shot . Substitute Brian McHenry and Cian McEniff added further scores to leave Kevin Lyons new charges well beaten.
Realt na Mara: Ashley Mulhern; Paul Murphy 0-1, Diarmuid McCaughey, Matthew Ward; Niall Carr 1- 01, Paul Brennan, Pauric Rooney; Shane McGowan, Micheal McEniff; Cian McEniff 0-1, Gary Clancy 0-6 (1f) Diarmuid Spratt 0-1; Jamie Brennan 1-2, Alan Russell 2-1, Timmy Govorov. Subs Sean Gilmartin for P Rooney h/t Matthew Duffy for T Govorov 47m Brian McHenry 0-1for M McEniff 47m Darragh Hoey for D Spratt 50m CJ McManus for M Ward 55m Oran Gallagher for J Brennan 55m
Four Masters: Martin Cassidy; Enda Bonner, Leo McHugh, Cathal Canavan; Daire Quinn, Caolan Loughrey, Jamie Crawford 0-2; Jason Duignam, Patrick Reid; Kevin McBrearty 0-2 (1f), Barry Dunnion, Josh Lacey; Emmet Doogan; Darren Doherty 0-1, Conor McMonagle 0-2 (1f). Sub: Kevin Breslin for Jason Duignam 40m
Referee: Seamus McGonigle Aodh Ruadh
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