| Down
men lead Queen's to Sigerson Weekend - 20/02/04
Sigerson
Cup: Queen's
University Belfast 1-10 St Mary's University 1-09
Queen's Semi final with UCD will take
place on Friday at 2.30 at Sarsfields
 The
host of this year's Sigerson Cup final will not be appearing
in the last four of the competition as St Mary's were
denied that accolade by neighbour's Queen's at the Dub
on February 18th.
A storming second half display by QUB
earned them the right to meet UCD in the semi-finals,
next weekend, much to the dismay of St Mary's who are
hosting Sigerson Cup weekend this year. In total Down
had six players in Queen's starting line up - Daniel
McCartan in defence and five forward's Aidan Carr, John
Clarke, Karl Oakes; John Turley, and Aidan Fagan, while
two of the sub's that came on for Queen's were also
Down men - while the Queen's team is managed by non
other a Down Man - James McCartan.
St Mary's opened the scoring when Mark and David Harte
pointed before Sean Kelly replied for Queen's. The Ranch
squandered a number of glorious scoring chances in the
opening quarter and should have led by more than 0-4
to 0-3.
Worse was to come for them as Queens
scored a goal after Aidan Fagan latched on to a long
ball by John Clarke and finished to the St Mary's net.
Harte kick three frees for St Mary's
to put his side in front again and Ronan Clarke added
another to leave the half time score 0-8 to 1-3 in the
travelling team's favour.
Billy Joe Padden narrowed the gap at
the start of the second half when he kicked a point,
but St Mary's responded the best way possible by rattling
the Queen's net after Aidan McCarron scored.
The home side had scores from Clarke
and Karl Oakes to narrow the gap between the sides,
while Harte replied for St Mary's. Queens then made
an inspired double substition and both McCartan and
Donagh scored with almost their first touch of the ball,
after Aidan Carr had fired over.
The game was heading for injury time
when Padden became his side's hero and he kicked the
winning point to send Queen's through to the penultimate
stage of the competition.
Queen's Semi final with UCD will take
place on Friday at 2.30 at Sarsfields
SCORERS -
QUB: A Fagan 1-1 (1f); BJ Padden 0-2; S Kelly, D Clerkin,
A Carr, J Clarke, K Oakes, G Donaghy, E McCartan 0-1
each.
St Mary's: M Harte 0-5f; A McCarron 1-1; D Harte 0-2;
R Clarke 0-1.
QUB - W McSorley; N Bogue, D McCartan,
R O'Neill; C Rafferty, E Devine, S Kelly; D Clerkin,
M McGrath; A Carr, J Clarke, K Oakes; J Turley, BJ Padden,
A Fagan. Subs: G Donaghy for Turley (39), E McCartan
for Oakes (49), P O'Hea for O'Neill (55).
ST MARY'S - S Featherstone; C O'Toole,
F Donnelly, P Quinn; D Harte, J McMahon, K Beagan; J
Haran, D Gordon; L Meenan, L O'Hare, M Donnelly; M Harte,
R Clarke, A McCarron.
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