AN excellent evening for Four Masters saw the Tir Chonaill Park side win the Southern Regional Board MFC title.
Four Masters 2-13 Naomh Conaill 1-8
By Charlie Collins
Alex McCalmont and Daniel Slevin, from a late penalty, netted the goals as Four Masters triumphed in Bundoran.
Four Masters were 0-8 to 0-6 ahead at half-time.
The Donegal town side were 0-7 to 0-2 in front by the 24th minute, with a double by McCalmont opening the five-point lead.
McCalmont might have gone for goal with the second effort, but fired over.
Naomh Conaill finished the half well and they hit four-in-a-row to narrow the deficit with Daniel Gildea arrowing over two points.
Ten minutes into the second half, McCalmont drove to the net from 12 yards to put his men seven ahead.
McCalmont and two by Slevin widened the margin again before Odhran McCalliog goaled for Naomh Conaill.
In the final minute, Slevin rammed home a penalty to seal the night.
Four Masters: Evan Gallagher, Christopher Gallagher, Diarmuid O’Donnell, Jamie Gorrell, Darragh Geary , Lee Murchan, Carl McCarry, Richard O’Rourke (0-1), Ultan O’Grady (0-1/45), Senan Quinn, Joe Leape,Alex McCalmont ( 1- 3), Shay Travers (0- 2), Dermot Slevin ( 1-5, 4, 1-0pen), Mark Jordan (0-1). Sub: Andrew Monaghan for Gorrell (62).
Naomh Conaill: Aodhan Browne, Aidan Gilroy, Mark Campbell, Leon Roarty , Adam Molloy, Joe Shanley-Smith , Odhran Doherty, Neil Francis Boyle , Robbie McDonald (0- 1), Odhran McCalliog (1-0), David Gildea (0-6, 4f, 1 ‘45 ), Mark McDevitt, Jamie O’Donnell, Jack Boyle, Conor Roarty (0-1). Subs: Michael McKelvey and Jack McGlynn for Boyle and Leon Roarty (40)
Referee: Declan Callaghan.