GAA: EOINLY ONE WINNER; Naomh Eoin 3-14 Celbridge 0-12.

NAOMH EOIN of Carlow recorded a facile win over Celbridge yesterday in Leixlep in the first round of the Leinster Club Hurling Championship.

The big men from the little south Carlow village of Myshall were superior in all departments to their opponents from the Kildare/Dublin border.

Goals were the difference as the Carlow champions put the sliotar in the net.

Naomh Eoin's first of three green flags was raised in the 26th minute, when Kevin Foley shot for a point from 50 yards fell under the bar and over the sun-blinded keeper, Philip Kenny. This strike put Naomh Eoin four points up.

Brother Robert Foley then got in on the act when he goaled from a ground-stroke following a high free to the square from Martin Murphy.

Naomh Eoin's centre-back, Damien Roberts, was the games outstanding player. He finished with seven points - six from placed balls.

And when Kevin Foley added his second goal - a blistering and accurate drive from an acute angle after a pass from his brother Robert - it was game over in the home of Intel and Hewlett Packard for Celbridge.