Sunday 25th March 2007, 6:52 pm
25th March 2007
Athlone Town 3
Colm Heffernan 35
Noel McGee 52
Dave O'Dowd 86
Wexford Youths 0
Lissywoollen
Wexford Youths suffered their first loss since joining the eircom League of Ireland. Today they were well beaten by an Athlone Town which has moved second in the First Division and set up an early top of the table clash with Dundalk next Thursday night.
Athlone got a slightly fortunate opening goal at Lissywoollen when Colm Heffernan's 35th minute free kick from distance eluded everyone and ended up in the Wexford net.
Noel McGee made it 2-0 as Athlone made their dominance count on 52 minutes. He got in to fire home after Paul McTiernan's free kick caught out the Youths defence.
John Flynn was forced to go in goal for Wexford in the closing ten minutes after first choice keeper Jason Russell went off injured. David O'Dowd got in to make it 3-0 in the closing five minutes as he connected with a Heffernan cross.
Athlone Town : O'Leary, Rossiter, Young (Casey 59), Frawley, Sheridan, Harty, Gavin (Lavine 70), Byrne, McGee (O'Dowd 70), McTiernan, Heffernan.
Wexford Youths : J Russell, A Russell, Sinnott, Kelly, Brosnan (Bolger 68), O'Loughlin, Elmes (Murphy 58), Flynn, Malone (Fitzpatrick 58), Larkin, Lawlor.