Round-up: Allianz HL D4 action
Action continued in Division Four of the Allianz Hurling League. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Allianz Hurling League Division Four
Sligo 4-21 Lancashire 1-12
Longford 1-23 Monaghan 0-12
Sligo and Longford continue to set the pace. In Enniscrone, Sligo easily brushed aside Lancashire.
Robert O’Kelly Lynch netted in the first minute, but Lancashire hit back strongly with the breeze at their backs in the windswept west-Sligo venue. Consecutive points from play from Conor Murphy, Ethan Costello, Shane Nugent and Darren Grealish levelled the game and the exiles briefly led when Nugent goaled eight minutes before the interval.
The O’Kelly Lynch brothers have racked up the scores in the early rounds of this year’s league and this proved to be more of the same, with Robert bringing his tally to 1-11, while Gerard scored the first of his 2-2 just before half-time to shift the momentum of the game back towards the Yeats County.
Sligo won the second half by 2-13 to 0-4, Eddie O’Donoghue adding the last of the green flags for a side that looks set to bounce straight back out of the basement division.
Longford are also going well and after recording narrow wins over Leitrim and Cavan, they moved through the gears against Monaghan in Castleblayney today.
Just four players raised flags in all for the winners, but that was more than enough as Martin Farrell (0-10), Reuben Murray (0-8), Joe Rabbit (1-3) and substitute Cathal Mullane (0-2) saw them through to a 14-point win over Monaghan, who now have a mountain to climb if they’re to get back into the promotion hunt.
