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Spread Scoring Leads Leitrim

April 16, 2008

By Eugene Kyne

Leitrim 0-18 Derry 1-5

NINE different scorers, a seven point halftime lead when they allowed one Derry point. It added up to an easy win for Leitrim, with no danger present at any time for the result going the other way.

The game had few highlights, such was the ease of the win. Fair to say it filled a slot at the park.

Leitrim started brightly in this senior contest despite missing a number of guns due to vacations and a numbers crunch. They had a brace of scores from Danny Sullivan and Mike Creegan to open their allotment and were in charge in general play.

Aidan Power, Alan Foley and Johnny Goldrick were in complete charge at the back, and they were making life miserable for Derry when they arrived in that zone. Derry was able advance to the Leitrim 45, but then their moves constantly broke down.

The Connaught men under the charge of Willie Lowry this season added a third point from an advancing Niall Maguire, but there was now 15 minutes gone and we not moved the scoreboard. When it was eventually changed it was by Darren Doherty who had Derry’s first but it was easily cancelled out by Kenny O’Connor and as the half wound down three further points was added from Creegan, Doona and Russell but it was a nondescript half of football with little to excite.

It was more of the same for Leitrim in the second half, four unanswered points as they attacked at will. Four different scorers will have impressed the management as well.

Doherty had a second point for Derry but it was a thumb in the dyke. Creegan, Conor Skeffington, Kieran Keaveney and Shane Russell were performing well with the open space, and Skef chipped in three points in a row as he got the shooting down pat.

It pushed the lead further out but it did precede Derry’s best period of what was too little too late, as 1-2 without reply made the scoreline a little more respectful.

The goal came from the boot of Shane O’Neill when he was on the end of a three player move that involved Lee Kelly and Rory McCluskey. The shot was a bullet to the net. Add in two brilliant saves from Brian Cullinane and it certainly was a positive end to the day for Derry when nothing went right in front of goal.

The play of John Goldrick, Alan Foley and Aidan Power bodes well for New York and Leitrim. All the forwards deserve credit. They took their points well.

Derry will look at the play of Brian Cullinane, Steve Keating and Darren Doherty as positives, but little else.

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