Reporting By Cillian Humphrey and Albert Jolly 

Coláiste Choilm 4.9  

Ardee 1.13 

Coláiste Choilm start the game by winning the throw-up which leads to a ball into Paddy Burns and he is fouled. The free is missed from close range. After some calm passing in midfield from Ardee the ball is played in for a simple point. Eoin Rouse runs from midfield and plays in to Darragh Stewart who goes through a few players and pops it over for Coláiste Choilm's first point of the match. Ardee, get the ball down the pitch quickly and score a point to go up by one in 5 minutes. Ardee get a free around the halfway line. The take it short to the two-point line and score a two-pointer. The next play Ardee score another two-point to take an early 5-point lead. Robert Burns get the ball and tries to run through 2 players but is fouled. The free is miss hit and ends up in a free for Ardee. Coláiste Choilm win the free in the air and Keith O'Rourke scores the first goal of the match. Ardee play a ball into acres of space which is caught, they play the ball in and get a point off it. On the other end Darragh Stewart has a goal chance which is saved but paddy burns gets it and scores a point instead. Ardee get a free and take it off the floor for an easy score. Ardee play a ball in to the ball into their full-forward who turns in and score a goal into the roof of the net. Darragh Stewart slips the all in Keith O'Rourke who scores a point from close range. Eoin rouse wins a free inside the 2-point line and scores it himself. Keith O'Rourke scores another point from play to cut the lead to a goal. Just before half time Ardee get a brilliant chance however Michael McAndrew makes an excellent save. 

At the start of the second half Coláiste Choilm make a mistake by only having 2 players in the half to give Ardee a free point. Eoin rouse is played through, but the Ardee goalkeeper makes a very impressive save. Coláiste choilm start a quick counterattack with Keith O'Rourke who plays Charlie Heffernan who find Steven Murrihy who scores a nice point. Ardee scored an open point after there was a gap in the defence. Paddy burns makes a powerful run he then hand passes to Eoin rouse who slaps in a goal. Cormac Staunton is unlucky to slip which leads to the Ardee player being open for a point. Coláiste choilm give away an unnecessary free which is shockingly put wide. Jayden Daly and Finn Coleman come on. An Ardee play goes down asking for a foul, but nothing given. Coláiste Choilm go the other way, but the keeper saves it and it goes out for a 45. Paddy Burns scores it. Jake Conlon comes on for Cormac Staunton with around 10 minutes to go. Darragh Stewart goes for a point it hits the post, and he catches it again and scores the goal to go up by 2 points. Ardee get a free and it is brought up to the 14 and score a point to make it a one-point game. After some simple passing paddy burns gets the ball and scores a point in loads of space. Darragh steward scores another point after a great run to make it a 3-point game. Darragh Stewart seals the game by scoring a goal to make it a 6-point game. Ardee try to go for goal, but it was saved over the bar. The referee blows it up for full-time. 

Our man of the match was Darragh Stewart. 

1.  Michael McAndrew  

2. Cormac Staunton  

3. Cormac O'Grady  

4. Robert Burns 

5. Sean Finlay 

6.Tadhg Kelly 

7. Steven Murrihy 

8. Patrick Duffy  

9. Eoin Rouse (C) 

10. Charlie Heffernan  

11. Cian Horkan 

12. Darragh Stewart  

13. Keith O'Rourke 

14. Mark Dunne 

15. Paddy Burns 

17. Finn Coleman 

18. Jake Conlon 

21. Jayden Daly