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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Sligo start off on wrong foot
By Tony McGee
ANTRIM 1-12 SLIGO 0-14
SLIGO returned home losers to Antrim last Sunday after a clash that failed to set the new league alight.
Both camps will know much work has still to be done if promotion for a second year is to be achieved.
Both last year’s Division 4 finalists never produced the type of football that would have warmed the hearts of their shivering supporters. Yes, it was close all the way and level four times but the action never rose above the mediocre. Both teams tossed away scoring chances and refereeing decisions didn’t please either side many times.
Antrim can be best pleased as they were without their St Gall’s players who are preparing for the All-Ireland semi battle with Corofin. Sligo, of course, were missing the influential Eamon O’Hara.
The visitors opened with a flurry of three points in six minutes – Marren, Breheny and Costello on target but Antrim responded to level the argument by the 12th minute. It was level again in the 18th and 25th minutes before the Saffrons hit their best spell of the game, snatching 1-3 without reply.
The goal was slammed home from the penalty spot by Paddy Cunningham on the half-hour after Tony Scullion was ‘smothered’ at the post by agile ‘keeper Philip Greene. Sligo hit back with points by Johnny Davey and Adrian Marren (free), and might have had a penalty of their own, to leave Antrim leading by 1-8 to 0-7 at the break.
On the restart the losers rifled over three unanswered points in four minutes as Breheny, Quinn and Marren snapped up chances, to narrow the gap again to 1-8 to 0-10 but their scoring dried up.
Only two points, both by Antrim, were scored over the next 18 minutes but Sligo, found their touch once more, scoring three times without reply to level at 1-10 to 0-13 with nine minutes plus injury time left.
Turnovers cost Sligo and they also fluffed a couple of scoring chances before Cunningham sent the winners 1-12 to 0-13 ahead with a point from a free and an excellent strike from the left wing. In the added time (four minutes), the effective, Marren who roved the left wing, had the last say with a Sligo point but it was not enough for the visitors to open their campaign with a victory.
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