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DR CROKES DID enough to grind out a five-point win over a dogged St Brendans to qualify for the Kerry SFC final in a fortnight, the first time in five years the famed Killarney club will play in the blue ribbon championship in the Kingdom.
For the first 20 minutes, Crokes looked at their imperious best, running those lovely angles and moving the ball through the phases with all the confidence of any team coached by Pat O’Shea. After 18 minutes they led 0-6 to 0-1, with points from Micheal Burns and David Shaw the pick of their scores. Brosnan converted a pair of frees inside the first five minutes of the second half to restore a five-point lead for Crokes, but the Killarney side wouldn’t score from play in the second half until Kieran O’Leary’s point in the 63rd minute.
Joe O’Connor, Savage and Daithi Griffin engineered scores to make it 0-11 to 0-8 after 48 minutes, but immediately Savage was sidelined for a black card offence, which seriously curtailed the divisional team’s ability to chase the game in the final quarter. Paddy Lane’s point did cut the deficit to two points but that was as close as St Brendans came to an upset.
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