Simonstown 1—8 Summerhill 0—11.

After drawing with League leaders Ratoath in previous round Simonstown the had to contend with second in table Summerhill on Tuesday evening in Simonstown. Summerhill attacked from throw in and pointed from play in the first minute. Shane McEnery snapped over a point despite being sorrounded by SHill defenders. The visitors popped over three points in row to go 0—4 to 0—1 after twelve minutes. Padraig McKeever free, David McKeever and Luke Caffrey replied for Simonstown to leave teams level at 0—4 to 0—4 with eighteen minutes on clock. Luke Caffrey was unlucky when his shot came back of the butt of the post and was cleared.With Summerhill now dominating,they tagged on five points ( 4 frees), one from play to Padraig McKeevers sole effort for the hosts. Simonstown were four behind at the break 0—5 to 0—9.

Whatever Gordon Ward said to his troops at half time resulte with a burst of attacking play and Padraig McKeever pointing a free in the third minute. A minute later the the most crucial score of the game arrived as Shane McEnery rifled to The Hill net to level the match 1—6 to 0—9 with four second half minutes gone. With both teams defending in numbers scores were hard to by. Padraig McKeever broke the deadlock and pointed from play. In th seventeen minute Summerhill got first second half score, a point from a free. 1—7 to 0—10. The visitors then edged in front with a point from play butP. McKeeverr slotted over for Simonstown 1—8 to 0—1 1 with twenty four second half minutes gone..Try as they might, neither team could find a winner although David McKeever was unlucky when at the end of a lung busting run the Hill goal keeper brought a good save. Simonstown defending limited Summerhill to two points for whole of second half.

Sims​​***Robbie Burlingham..Mark Devlin, Stephen Moran, Mark Gardiner...Aaron Chinchilla, Josh Carolan, Jimmy Heaney....Tadgh Hanrahan, Briain Conlon...David Kavanagh, Padraig McKeever (0—5)2f, David McKeever (0—1),....Aaron Farrelly, Luke Caffrey (0—1), Shane McEnery(1—1)...

Subs​​;..Ben Hoey/ A.Farrelly...Peter Duffy /D.Kavanagh...Cody Chinchilla / J.Heaney.

Extended Panel;; Eoghan Foley..Shane Kavanagh...Conor Staunton...Liam Purvis..

Summerhill**Sean Muddiman...Ben Moran, Iarla Hughes, John Lavelle...Padraig Geraghty, Adam McDonnell, Jamie O Shea...Adam Flanagan, Kevin Lyons...David Larkin, Eoghan Frayne, Eamon Ryan...Eammon McDonnell, David Dalton, Liam Shaw...