Well done to Wexford U-21 Footballers tonight on their opening win in the Eirgrid Leinster U-21 Football Championship, their opponents Carlow had no answer for Wexfords intence fast pace style of Football, besides the first 4 minutes where Carlow went a point ahead 2 points to 1, Wexford took control of the game under terrible conditions and went 0-5 to 0-2 after 15 mins and with Mikey Dwyer, Conor Firman, Mark Rossiter and Tom Byrne all on fire and kicking between the posts which led to double scores at the break 0-10 to 5.Carlow got one back after the throw in but after excellent point taking from Tom Byrne, Arine Murphy and Mikey Dwyer Finding the net in the last 10 followed by 2 more from Niall Hughes and Ian Carty making it 11 points between the teams at the closing stages with Darragh Pepper finding target right after coming off the bench plus two more scores coming from Wexford before the final whistle resulting in a 1-18 to 0-8 win a Quarter Final spot against Offaly
Wexford – M Doyle; S Barden, R Devereux, A Murphy; C Firman (0-1), N Rossiter, D Barden (0-1); N Hughes (0-2), P Devereux; J Firman, I Carty (0-4), J Stafford; M Dwyer (1-2), T Byrne (0-4, 0-2f), M Rossiter (0-2). Subs: D Bolger for J Firman, M O’Connor for J Stafford, D Redmond for A Murphy, D Pepper (0-2) for C Firman, J Roche for N Hughes, G Malone for D Redmond (BC).
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