There was disappointment in Inniscarra, on Saturday evening last, as Randals made an exit from the county junior B football championship, losing to Grange in  the quarter-final.

The winners, held the advantage in the early stages and had built up a lead of 1-3 to 0-0 by the  fourteenth minute.

Randals rallied going into the second quarter. Sam Kingston Kingston got a point, Eoin O'Sullivan added another and Sam Kingston, again, from long range made it 1-3 to 0-3.

Grange replied with a point from a free, but Conor O'Neill, with a great point from play and another from a free, narrowed the margin again.

However disaster struck coming up to half time, as Grange got two goals within two minutes and were 3-6 to 0-5 ahead at the break.

Randals gave as good as they got for most of the second half. Cathal Duggan got an early point. Donncha Collins got through for for a goal, then added a point two minutes later and Conor O'Neill, with a point from a free, made it 3-6 to 1-8, by the end of the third quarter.

Grange got a point from a free, but Conor O'Neill and Eoin O'Sullivan were back for two more and there were only three points in it with about ten minutes to go.

Randals had a few scoring chances, which did not come off, and it was Grange who got the scores in the closing minutes,

sending over three more points.

It was :  Grange 3-10  Randal Og 1-10, at full time.

Team : Ciaran Murray,  Conor O'Connell,  Conor O'Donovan,   Barry Lynch,  Cian O'Neill, Shane Patterson,  Ian Crowley, Seamus Crowley, Conor O'Neill,  Padraig Galvin,  Eoin O'Sullivan, Patrick Lynch, Barry O'Driscoll,  Sam Kingston, Cathal Duggan.

Subs:  Donncha Collins, Stephen Crowley, Kevin Dullea.