Tipperary SFC final: Moyle Rovers come good in second-half

October 28, 2018

Galway's Liam Silke and Peter Acheson of Tipperary.
©INPHO/Ryan Byrne.

Moyle Rovers secured a convincing eight point victory over Ardfinnan in today’s Tipperary SFC final at Semple Stadium.

Full-forward Shane Foley scored 1-2 in his team’s 1-15 to 1-7 victory while his full-forward line colleague Liam Boland chipped in with 0-6 (4 frees).

Ardfinnan shaded the first-half exchanges and took a 0-6 to 0-5 lead into the break but it was all one-way traffic in the second-half as the winners outscored them by 1-10 to 1-1.

Moyle Rovers - C Kenrick; P Morrissey, A Campbell, M Irwin; D McGrath (0-1), R Mulcahy (0-1), Luke Boland; R Power (0-1), P Acheson; D Ryan, S Quirke (0-1), S Carey; Liam Boland (0-6, 4f), S Foley (1-2), D Owens (0-1). Subs: A McGrath for S Carey, T Fitzgerald for Luke Boland, D Foley (0-2) for S Quirke, R Quigley for D Owens, J Harney for S Foley, D Dwyer for A Campbell.

Ardfinnan - M Goonan; E Walsh, J Ryan, M O'Sullivan; D O'Leary, C O'Shaughnessy (0-1), G Whelan; G Cronin, S Nagle (0-1); B Hewitt (0-1f), D Nugent, A Lonergan; M Barlow (0-2, 1f), D O'Regan (0-1), C O'Gorman (0-1). Subs: P Kennedy (1-0) for M Barlow, J Coffey for D Nugent, J O'Mahoney for A Lonergan.

Referee - S Everard.


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