ST PATRICK'S ................0-8

ENNISKILLEN ...............0-13

A game, as the cliché would have it, of two distinct halves at Donagh.

Home side St Patrick's were to be the dominant team in the opening spell as they produced a bright team display and they had the visiting Enniskillen team on the back foot for most of the half. No surprise then that St Patrick's went in at the break leading by seven points to four and there was no reason to suggest that they would not be capable of continuing onward in the second half.

But instead there was to be remarkable transformation over the closing thirty minutes. St Patrick's who had previously been so alert and convincing were to fade badly. So much so that they were only a pale shadow of the snappy force they had been prior to the interval.

The Donagh team were to shoot just a solitary point in what was a deeply disappointing second half effort from them. In the meantime, a rejuvenated Enniskillen side went from strength to strength and they swept their way to what was in the end a comfortable and convincing win.

Ryan McCluskey around the middle of the park was to be an influential figure in the Enniskillen revival while Michael Lilly stepped up to the defensive mark on the changeover. Ronan McCabe was the most effective player on view up front for the Gaels and substitute Conor Kelly also chipped in with a promising effort.

Others to contribute handsomely to the Enniskillen cause were James McKenna at wing half back and Michael Kerr operating at wing half forward.

For St Patrick's Ryan Daly worked diligently in the full back line, Ciaran Keenan did well at half back but the absence of Shane McDermott was in the end to prove a major handicap for the home side.

Best for them in the forward line in what was easily their best passage of the game, the freeflowing first half, Eamon and Gary Maguire featured brightly but then it all came asunder.

Among the points scorers for St Patrick's were Gary Maguire, Pat Cadden and Eamon Maguire with Cadden claiming the team's lone second half score, this coming some ten minutes from full time.

On the mark for the ever improving Gaels in that vibrant second half performance were points scorers Ryan McCluskey, Michael Kerr and Ronan McCabe. The Gaels too had their key absentee, Tom Brewster not participating.

Referee Seamus Breen Tempo.