SLIGO v KILDARE (GROUP 3)
They meet for only the third time in the championship, with Sligo having won the previous two by a point.
They won by 0-16 to 0-15 in an All-Ireland qualifier in Croke Park in 2001 and by 1-11 to 1-10 in a qualifier in Markievicz Park in 2005.
CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS SO FAR
• Kildare 1-17 Wicklow 0-10 (Leinster quarter-final)
• Dublin 0-14 Kildare 0-12 (Leinster semi-final)
Top scorers
1. Paddy Woodgate…..1-6 (0-4 frees, 0-1 ‘45’)
2. Jack Robinson………0-6 (0-4 frees)
3. Darragh Kirwan…………………0-4
4. Ben McCormack…………………0-4
CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS SO FAR
• Sligo 2-20 London 0-12 (Connacht quarter-final)
• Sligo 2-16 New York 0-6 (Connacht semi-final
• Galway 2-20 Sligo 0-12 (Connacht final)
Top scorers
1. Sean Carrabine…..1-8 (0-4 frees)
2. Niall Murphy……..0-11 (0-4 frees, 0-1 ‘45’)
3. Pat Spillane………….1-7
4. Patrick O’Connor.. 2-4 (0-1 mark)
*Kildare (fifth Division 2) finished twelve places ahead of Sligo (first Division 4) in this year’s Allianz League.
*Sligo are the only team who were in Division 4 this year to make it to the Sam Maguire Cup last sixteen stages.
