Scotstown ease to Ulster club victory over Erne Gaels

Jack McCarron fired over eight points for Scotstown in Saturday evening's game

An imperious display from Scotstown saw them trounce Erne Gaels 0-19 to 0-6 to set-up an Ulster Club SFC semi-final meeting with Kilcoo next Saturday evening.

Jack McCarron (eight points) and Conor McCarthy (six) led the way for the Monaghan champions at Brewster Park as they made up 0-14 of Scotstown’s tally.

The Monaghan champions were dominant in the first half as they pressed the Erne Gaels kick-outs with intensity, overturned them time and again and put the result virtually beyond doubt by the half-time whistle.

The opening two points of the game were traded one apiece via McCarron and Gaels wing back Oisin Kelm. Scotstown then rattled off 10 points on the bounce, with Micheal McCarville and Jason Carey joining the free-scoring McCarron and McCarthy on the scoresheet.

Points from Barry McCann and Shane Rooney closed out Belleek’s first-half tally, but scores from Kieran Hughes, McCarron and McCarthy had Scotstown 11 points ahead at the break.

The intensity dropped in the second half, with Scotstown managing their lead to the finish line.

Erne Gaels showed some signs of life with Aogan Kelm and Dan McCann scoring the first two points on the restart but Scotstown rattled off five-in-a-row in response - McCarthy with two and one apiece for McCarron, Shane Carey and Mattie Maguire.

Erne Gaels captain Ryan Lyons grabbed the last score of the game before Scotstown’s Maguire almost found a late goal but blasted wide of the target.