Then, as the game ticked close to full-time, Luke Prendergast popped up with a precious winner for Galway to earn the Connacht side a semi-final showdown with Cork. Cork, who scored 11 goals and conceded just one in the group phase, secured their semi-final spot with a comfortable 2-0 victory over the SDFL. The Leesiders hit the front on 20 minutes with the in-form Robert Geaney-O’Brien firing home. Cork added a second goal through Ronan O’Brien five minutes later to close out victory.
Thursday’s opening semi-final in the SFAI Kennedy Cup will be an all-Dublin affair as the DDSL take on the NDSL. The DDSL, yet to concede a goal in the competition, recorded a hard fought 1-0 victory over 2015 beaten semi-finalists, the Limerick Desmond Schoolboy League. The game’s only goal arrived just before half time courtesy of the DDSL’s Dylan Duffy.
2011 Cup winners the NDSL defeated the Wexford League 3-0 to book their place in the last four. The NDSL goals were scored by Dennis Robu, two, and Darragh Curtin.
SFAI Kennedy Cup 2016 Day 3 Results:
Trophy quarter-finals:
NEC 2-4 Drogheda; WWEC 1-2 Dundalk; Limerick District 2-1 Carlow; Limerick County 3-5 Inishowen
Shield quarter-finals:
Roscommon 0-3 Mayo; North Tipperary 0-2 Clare; Longford 1-0 Wicklow; South Tipp 0-0 Sligo/Leitrim (South Tipp win 4-2 on pens)
Bowl quarter-finals:
Athlone 0-2 Midlands; Cavan/Monaghan 2-2 West Cork (West Cork win 5-4 on pens); Kildare 1-0 Waterford; Donegal 0-1 Kilkenny
SFAI Kennedy Cup quarter-finals:
Limerick Desmond 0-1 DDSL; Wexford 0-3 NDSL; Galway 2-1 Kerry; Cork 2-0 SDFL
More details available here: http://www.sfai.ie/index.php/kennedy-cup.