Sigerson 2008

inthemaking · February 13, 2008, 04:19:06 PM

UUJ won by 12 points

Teeling Gael · February 13, 2008, 04:33:48 PM

"Sligo IT's interest in this year's Sigerson Cup came to an abrupt halt this afternoon when they went down to a comprehensive 4 -12 to 10 points defeat against keen rivals UUJ at Ballinode. The Ulster college led by 3-06 to 6 points at the half time break and went on to record an easy win in the end"

Courtesy of Oceanfms website in Sligo.

Jinxy · February 13, 2008, 04:38:39 PM

So the harlem globetrotters are gone.

Fair play to DIT (who were missing their two highest-profile players unless I'm mistaken). All to play for now.

ExiledGael · February 13, 2008, 04:45:36 PM

GMIT beat Waterford too according to a text, got no other details at all.
Who are DIT's main players. Vaughan was one of the absentees wasn't he?
Would love to see more coverage of this. Last year's weekend in Belfast had some of the best football I've ever seen.

AZOffaly · February 13, 2008, 04:49:24 PM

Any word on the UL/Mary's game?

Donagh · February 13, 2008, 05:06:37 PM

Queens win a game after their professionals have retired

. Whatever next, Kevin McGourty to read a book after eight years at university?

inthemaking · February 13, 2008, 05:24:51 PM

From BBC

Holders Queen's will meet UUJ in the Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup quarter-finals next week after both claimed second-round wins on Wednesday.
Queen's edged out NUI Galway 1-14 to 1-13 in a thriller at Mullahoran while UUJ romped past IT Sligo 4-12 to 0-11.

Ulster's other remaining hopefuls St Mary's bowed out after a 2-10 to 0-6 defeat by the University of Limerick.

DIT, IT Tralee, GMIT and Garda College were among the other winners in Wednesday's games.

PlayWithTheWind · February 13, 2008, 05:34:10 PM

the Ranch boys will be on the rip as we speak!

ExiledGael · February 13, 2008, 05:42:21 PM

Queen's v UUJ, repeat of last year's final should be a cracker. Supposed to be next week, probably Casement??

Cavanfan · February 13, 2008, 06:20:15 PM

Vaughan was playing scoring 7 points 6 frees I think and Ward came on.

ExiledGael · February 13, 2008, 07:39:31 PM

Improved BBC update

Queen's set up Jordanstown clash

Holders Queen's will meet UUJ in the Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup quarter-finals next week after both claimed second-round wins on Wednesday.
Queen's edged out NUI Galway 1-14 to 1-13 in a thriller at Mullahoran while UUJ romped past IT Sligo 4-12 to 0-11.
Ulster's other remaining hopefuls St Mary's bowed out after a 2-10 to 0-6 defeat by the University of Limerick.
DIT, Cork IT, IT Tralee, GMIT and Garda College were among the other winners in Wednesday's games.
Queen's were pushed all the way by a resilient NUI side with a goal from Shaun O'Neill setting them on their way.
They found it hard to break free from NUI and only prevailed by a point at the finish.
The tie of the day was at Grangegorman where champions of two years ago DCU, were sensationally knocked out of this year's competition following an Aidan Kilcoyne goal in the second half to help DIT to a 1-12 to 0-12 win.
Elsewhere, a strong Laois influence was not enough to see hosts IT Carlow book a spot in the last eight.
A strong Garda College side, powered by Kerry's Aidan O'Mahony and Michael Cussen of Cork, took a 1-11 to 0-12 win.
Meanwhile, good displays from wing-back Ger Caffery (0-2) and former Tottenham Hotspur player Paul O'Donoghue (0-4) helped IT Tralee take a home win over NUI Maynooth by 0-16 to 1-10. They now face DIT in the quarter-finals.

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Sigerson Cup second round
DIT 1-12 0-12 DCU
Queen's 1-14 1-13 NUI Galway
Cork IT 1-13 1-6 UCD
UUJ 4-12 0-11 Sligo IT
UL 2-10 0-6 St Mary's
IT Tralee 0-16 1-10 NUI Maynooth
GMIT 0-18 2-6 Waterford IT
Garda College 1-11 0-12 Carlow IT

Minder · February 13, 2008, 08:28:22 PM

Quote from: hardstation on February 13, 2008, 05:34:51 PM
Perhaps they have been for the last week.

The Beehive getting a whack?

You are assured of a whack in the Beehive

laoisgaa · February 13, 2008, 10:25:51 PM

Next games aren't until the 27th now Is there a way to access this board via mobile? I'll still up all the quarter-final updates as I hae them to hand next day out.

Zulu · February 13, 2008, 11:33:08 PM

An impressive win for UL today but Mary's were pretty woeful. DCU's elimination (was it you Indiana that told us the rest of the colleges shouldn't bother turning up this year?

) and the elimination of either Queen's or UUJ makes this one of the most open Sigerson's in years. Can't wait for Wednesday week.

laoisgaa · February 13, 2008, 11:46:18 PM

I was at UL/St. Mary's today and I have to say I was very impressed by UL's midfielder David Moran who was sublime thoughout, took a well struck penalty and was generally involved in almost all of UL's scoring moves.

Would have wondered why CJ McGourty didn't start for Mary's either, he certainly helped them stay in contention when introduced but Mary's left themselves with a bit of a mountain to climb, defence let them down badly.

Very open Sigerson now - would have fancied Carlow IT to come through against the guards, a lot of the IT's left in the competition which is heartening, colleges that haven't any/too many titles to their credit also such as IT Tralee

Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup Round 2
University of Limerick 2-10
St. Mary's College Belfast 0-6
By Cóilín Duffy

A strong first half performance from UL ensured that they advanced to an Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup Quarter-final meeting with GMIT after a convincing 10 points victory over St. Mary's Belfast yesterday at DCU.
UL led by 1-6 to 0-0 after only six minutes, with former Cork Under 21 Cathrach Keane finding the back of the St. Mary's net inside two minutes, after a pass from Alan O'Sullivan of Kerry

The Limerick side were firmly dominated in the midfield sector and Mary's found it hard to cope with their quick passing moves, as UL took a second goal before the interval from midfielder David Moran to take a 2-6 to 0-2 interval lead.
The introduction of Antrim's CJ McGourty helped St. Mary's dominate in the third quarter as he chipped in with two points but UL held enough in resolve and finished the game with three unanswered points.
University of Limerick: D Dineen; D Bracken, S Twomey, K Harrington; S Lonergan, M Moloney, G Sunderland; D Moran 1-2 (1-0 pen, 0-1f), G Brennan; F Lynch 0-3 (fs), B Moran, C Keane 1-1; E Varley 0-3 (1f), A O'Sullivan, P Byrne 0-1. Subs: D Geaney for Bracken (37); C McGowan for Byrne (55); A Feeley for Varley (58)

St Mary's: B Marron; G Smyth, J McMahon, K O'Boyle; M McIvor, S O'Neill, M Murray; G O'Neill 0-1, J Kelly; N McVeigh, K Niblock, B McGoldrick 0-1; P Carville 0-1, C McCarron, M Pollock. Subs: B Óg Maguire for O'Boyle (9); J Lavery for N McVeigh (16); CJ McGourty 0-2 (1f) for McCarron (25); P Keenan 0-1 for Kelly (ht); J Cunningham for Pollock (48)
Referee: P Power (Dublin)