Seaford ended their season with a sensational comeback win to haul themselves out of the relegation zone and leave the visitors in big trouble.

Baz Kirwan's men started brightly but found themselves behind on 13 minutes, as the first Newbridge attack finished with a clinical outcome: playmaker Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun laid in winger Destiny Asemota, who smashed it home.

Unbowed, the Penguins continued to make the running. Jamie McCaul headed just wide from a Greg Hughes cross, and then Danny Walsh almost caught out keeper Brady Adams with a clever effort, but it bounced off the post.  Walsh then met Jack Keegan's corner with a powerful header, but it was just wide.

And then, another sucker=punch. Aaron Donohoe whipped in a free kick, and Jack Foley Donohoe buried it.

With their season slipping out of their grasp, Seaford needed a huge response. It began when Rory Carberry made a barnstorming run upfield from right back before being hauled down on the edge of the box. Keegan slotted the free kick as nervelessly as he despatches his penalties - an inch-perfect finish into the bottom corner.

Trailing at the break despite having the better of the play, the Penguins needed a massive display to save their campaign. Daniel Mac Dermott set the tone, dominating the midfield area and driving the team forward.

The pressure ratcheted up, and finally the equaliser arrived. From Keegan's delivery, Alan McGeady attacked the near post like Keane in Turin, and found the back of the net.

But only a win would do for Seaford. Keegan produced a clever back-heel to put Walsh through, but under pressure from defenders, he wasn't able to apply the finish. But the big striker grabbed the crucial goal with ten to play, sliding in to convert at the back post after a brilliant run and cross from Zitian Xiang.

Raucous celebrations, but the job wasn't done. Fighting for their lives, Seaford hassled and harried Newbridge all over the pitch, forcing the Kildare men backwards. Substitute Shane Halpin had a couple of sights at goal but couldn't find the net. Five minutes stoppage time became six and then seven, until finally the whistle blew.

The three points lift Seaford off the bottom of the table for the first time in months, meaning Newbridge need to beat champions Montpelier in their final match to avoid the drop.

Seaford:  Fionn McLoughlin, Rory Carberry, Zitian Xiang, Fionn Geoghegan, (Shane Halpin, 75), Alan McGeady, Daniel Mac Dermott, Greg Hughes, Jack Keegan, Conor Fennell (Niall Holleran, 85), Jamie McCaul (Eoin O'Farrell, 90+3), Danny Walsh (Desmond Eiffe, 90+5)

Newbridge Town: 1 Brady Adams, 2 Jack Ralph, 4 Darijus Peveraitis, 5 Adam McHugh, 6 Aaron Donohoe, 7 Airidas Peveraitis, 8 Ben Shanahan, 9 Jack Foley Donohoe, 10 Oluwafayosayemi Nel Adeogun, 17 Maxwell Maina, 18 Destiny Asemota. Subs: 12 Aidan Prestreshi, 13 Samuel Mchivga, 14 Alexander Minihan, 15 Elijah Emmanuel

Seaford produced a lion-hearted performance but exited the FAI Junior Cup after being edged out in  extra time at Brickfield Park.

It was a dream start for the Penguins, who led inside three minutes through  Ryan Scollard, as the prolific striker pounced on Eoin Fitzpatrick’s undercooked backpass to skip around  Javier Zumárraga and finished with his left. 

2 almost redeemed himself when he arrived at the back post to attack Shane Jenkinson’s cross but headed just over. The visitors maintained a threat on the break. Midfield schemer Thomas Murphy started .many of the moves and almost finished ones his 20 yard piledriver was comfortably dealt with by Zumárraga   

Bosco’s dangerman Alex Taaffe almost leveled halfway through the opening period , but blazed over after cleverly working a yard. But the same man made no mistake on 31, smashing an unstoppable shot past Oisin Geoghegan after being put in by Michael Eustace’s clever scoop. 

If Seaford had spent much of the first balcony fhe back foot, it was a different story after the break as they showed more attacking threat. Scollard ought to have bagged his second of the night when Jamie Cogan diverted Murphy’s cross into his path, but the usually nerveless marksman smashed his shot wide with Zumárraga ​ out of this goal .  

Despite piling on late pressure , the visitors  couldn’t quite get the win in 90 and when the game resumed for extra time, Bosco flew out of the traps. In the first minute, Derek Lawlor cracked the underside of the crossbar with a ferocious strike , and shortly after they produced a moment of class to secure what proved to be the winner, as Ian O’Brian raced on to Lawlor’s throughball and slotted home via the far post. 

The Penguins surged foresee and were left wondering how ok earth they couldn’t force the ball in.  Ian Daly set MJ Tierney for a violent left-footed volley which would have burst the net but for a defender’s desperate lunch, and then Zumárraga somehow clawed  a Tierney corner out of by he top corner of his bet, before first Daly and then Brian Murphy had goalbound efforts blocked on the line. Even Sam Browne, surged forward from the back towrads the end and let go of a rasping striker off his left, but it was just off target.

A proud evening for the club but it just wasn’t Seaford’s day, Alan Burns’s men now focus on seeing out their remaining two league matches of what has been an energy-sapping season .

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Darragh Roche (Fionn Geoghegan, 45+1) , Brian Murphy,, Sam Browne, Al Kennedy, Ben Kelly, (MJ Tierney, 78) Thomas Murphy, Ian Daly Jack Keegan (Greg Hughes, 90+1) Jamie McCaul, Ryan Scollard

St John Bosco: 1 Javier Zumárraga, 2 Eoin Fitzpatrick, 3 Shane Jenkinson, 4 Jamie Cogan, 5 Joseph Mc Glue, 6 Vicente Adrain Alferez Diaz, 7 Michael Eustace, 8 Daniel Cully Beakhurst, 9 Alex Taaffe,  10 Derek Lawlor, 11 Ian O'Brien. Subs: 12 Dean Blood, 13 Sean McGuigan, 14 Gareth Byrne, 15 Scott Taaffe, 18 Mark Sandford

 Seaford secured their place in Major 1 with five games to spare with a second handsome win over Maynooth in the space of seven days, in a match that will be remembered for the great Ryan Scollard bringing up a century of goals for the club.. 

The match followed a similar pattern to the sides' previous clash in Blackrock a week prior, with Seaford comfortably dominating proceedings before half-time, before suffering a brief wobble early in the second period, and then re-establishing superiority. towards the end.

Scollard had to wait until the last kick of the game to record his landmark goal, but it would have been a lot sooner but for Corey McKeon in goals for the hosts, who made a brilliat save to deny Scollard's header on 14, making up for his own mistake after Rob O'Shea 
​had nicked hte ball off him before crossing in.

Instead it was Sam Browne who broke the deadlock, nodding home his sixth of the season after Scollard had flicked on Craig Conlon's corner..

Then the visitors gifted Seaford two quick goals in as many minutes. First, defender Ryan Moran concede possession to Fionn Nally, who did brilliantly to finish from a tight angle with his left, before McKeon let O'Shea's tame shot slip under him and into the het. 

It was 0-4 on the stroke of half-time as Scollard ran on to a long ball forward from keeper, Oisin Geoghegan and then teed to Nally for an easy finish.

But just as they'd done a weak earlier, Seaford let Maynooth back into the game witha  calamitous start to the second half. James Kelly headed home a free kick on 47 minutes, and then Ethan Hennessy punished Browne's error to make it 2-4 just four minutes into the second half. 

The Penguins' boat was rocking now and, despite dominating possession, they were struggling to generate much forward momentum. The crucial fifth goal arrived 20 minutes into the second half, as O'Shea completed a slick attack by receiving a perfectly weighted Jack Keegan pass and rounding McKeon for 5-2.

Scollard lashed home a free-kick in stoppage time for his big goal, meaning that Seaford are all-but mathematically safe for another campaign.

Seaford: Oisin Geoghegan, Rory Carberry, Brian Murphy (Zitian Xiang, 72),, Sam Browne, Eoin Mahon (Alan McGeady, 72), homas Murphy, (Jack Keegan, 63) Craig Conlon, Rob O'Shea, Fionn Nally (Darragh Connolly, 72),   Kuanxian Kang (Niall Holleran, 55)   Ryan Scollard

Maynooth Town: 1 Corey Mc Keon, 2 Ryan Moran, 3 Charlie Lyons, 4 Thomas Lunn, 5 Evan White, 6 Evan Hartnett, 7 James Kelly, 8 Jamie Lee Byrne, 9 Oisin Beirne, 10 Milosz Konczarek, 11 Ethan Hennessy. Subs: 12 Finn van Velzen, 13 Ethan Tansey, 14 Craig Fagen, 15 Daniel Tijani, 16 Rian Doyle, 18 Dumitru Mangir