The Rossies beat Sligo as Mayo do enough to get past Leitrim
Markievicz Park hosted the meeting of the Roscommon and Sligo minor footballers on Friday. Photograph: InphoThe line-up for the knockout stages of the Connacht minor football championship was confirmed with one round of games to spare, after Mayo and Roscommon picked up away wins over Leitrim and Sligo respectively on Friday night.
Those two rivals will now meet in the championship semi-final, with reigning All-Ireland champions Galway already through to the decider. The contest at Markievicz Park between Sligo and Roscommon was in effect a straight knockout tie, and there was little to call between the teams in the early stages, with Roscommon leading by the odd point in seven midway through the first half.
The contest shifted decisively in the Rossies’ favour in the second quarter as they took control of midfield and outscored Sligo by 0-7 to 0-1 in that period, while Cian Gallagher’s score for the Yeats County was a crucial goal chance that was well saved by Aaron Cox.
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