St Nicholas and Old Bridge progress to Tipperary Purtill Cup quarter-finals

Paddy Purtill Cup (2nd Round)

St Nicholas 2 – 0 Cahir Park

Solohead side St Nicholas provided the shock result of the weekend when they overcame newly crowned First Division league champions Cahir Park at home on Sunday afternoon to advance on the Paddy Purtill Cup.

As they are always capable of doing, the Second Division outfit put on a show of both skill and grit to overcome The Park in front of an enthusiastic band of supporters.

Both sides approached the game in a positive fashion, and had a number of chances before the Saints opened the scoring in the 21st minute, when Aaron Ryan Shiner finished an Eoin Riordan free kick to the net, underlying Ryan’s excellent form in front of goal in recent games.

The game continued to be open after that, but there were no more goals scored in an entertaining first half. Riordan himself was unlucky not to score minutes into the second period, when he headed just over from a corner kick. But he made no mistake on the hour mark, doubling his side’s advantage, when he converted a through ball to the net.

The First Division champions didn’t go down without a fight and were awarded a penalty kick ten minutes from time, but the hosts were not for moving and the spot kick was saved by Jack Wilton to preserve his side’s two goal advantage.

Galbally United and Cashel Town advance to cup quarter-finals in Tipperary

Rosegreen Rangers 0 – 6 Old Bridge

After what was a tough season for much of the time, Old Bridge seem to have caught fire in recent weeks, and continued their good form with an excellent performance and thumping win away to Rosegreen Rangers at Nijinsky Park on Sunday afternoon.

The Clonmel side were always in control, and went to the break three goals to the good, thanks to goals from Sean Martin, Jake Mulcahy and Ben Nugent.

They repeated the trick in the second period, with Martin and Mulcahy on the scoresheet again, and a six star performance was completed near the end with a final goal from Eoin Leahy to advance to the last eight.