Gaelic Footballers Lose To Roscommon

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An understrength IT Sligo senior gaelic football team were well beaten by Kevin McStay’s Roscommon in their opening fixture of this year’s Connacht FBD League campaign.

The students were beaten on a final scoreline of 6-21 to 0-15.

Missing several of their Donegal contingent who were on Dr McKenna Cup duty the same afternoon, IT Sligo found the going tough early on and trailed by 2-16 to 0-3 at the interval.

To their credit, the Institute showed an improvement in the second half but the damage was done in the opening 35 minutes as the home team established a 19-point advantage during this period.

IT Sligo now prepare for a trip to Ballina this Sunday to play All-Ireland finalists Mayo at 2pm

They are in Section B of the Connacht FBD league this year along with Roscommon, Mayo and NUI Galway.

IT Sligo team: D Cafferky, D McConnon, P Neilan, A Dunne,  R Gorman (0-1), E McGrath (0-1), C Surlis, R Connolly (0-1), D Curran,  A McClean, K McBrearty, K Rudden,  C McGettigan (0-2), J Shaughnessy (0-5, all frees), C Reape (0-3, two 45s). Subs: R Gallagher for Curran (21 mins); C Byrne for Rudden (48 mins); A Wharton (0-2) for Reape (63 mins).