Derry SFC: Newbridge see off Kilrea with second half surge

O’Neills Derry SFC round one: Kilrea 1-10 Newbridge 0-18OISIN Doherty hit 11 points as reigning champions Newbridge got their Derry Senior Football Championship off to a winning start in Find Insurance Owenbeg on Friday evening. Kilrea led at the break 1-5 to 0-7, Rory Maguire’s goal giving them that slender advantage as the Pearses’ goalkeeper Aidan Gillan denied both Eamon Young and Patrick McMullan were both denied at the other end in that opening half. The reigning champions started the brighter to race three points clear, Gillan also making his first save in this period before Kilrea responded, a Larry Kielt two pointer levelling matters, immediately from Gillan’s save at the other end. The ‘Bridge moved two clear again before Maguire took on his man and from an acute angle rifled the