Match Report: Maynooth Town 2-6 Seaford

 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