Padraig Fitzgerald marked his league debut with seven first-half points for the Déise.
Waterford 2-31 Laois 2-19 DESPITE LOSING MICHAEL Kiely to a sixth-minute red card, Waterford picked up their first win of the Division 1 campaign in Portlaoise tonight.
The teams were level seven times in the first half. Padraig Fitzgerald opened his league account with a free after just 40 seconds, but Laois goalkeeper Enda Rowland replied with a long-distance free before Ian Shanahan sent the hosts ahead. A Stephen Maher free tied the game again, and after Jack Prendergast and Jack Kelly swapped points, Prendergast set up Fitzgerald for his seventh point of the half, and his fifth from play, sending the fourteen men of Waterford in 1-10 to 1-9 to the good at the break.
Jamie Barron and Calum Lyons hit back at the other end for Waterford before, on 42 minutes, Laois went down to fourteen as Aidan Corby got his marching orders for a high challenge on Neil Montgomery. The favourites pulled away after that. Gleeson notched six points on his introduction, three from play, Calum Lyons slotted four from play, while Ballygunner teenager Patrick Fitzgerald got his league debut in the closing stages and registered two injury-time points.
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