Men's Division One: Week One round-up

Corinthian 3 (Brian Doherty 2, Glen Holmes) Fingal 1 (Paddy Gahan)

A tight, cagey match; Corinthian's greater conversion rate from corners proved the difference as his 100pc record earned the points at Whitechurch Park. Glen Holmes opened the scoring but Paddy Gahan levelled matters.

But Doherty zinged in a high flick on the hooter for a half-time lead and got his second late on to take the points. Fingal earned more corners on the day but struggled without Mick McGuinness.

TRR 3 (David Storey, Peter McConnell, Peter Blakeney) Railway Union 1 (Mark English ps)

Three Rock made slightly hard work of their opening day win against Railway Union, building a 2-0 lead before Mark English's stroke midway through the second half gave the visitors a chance to nick a point. Blakeney scrambled one in late on to confirm the three points for Maarten Bos' side.

UCD 0 Glenanne 7 (Stephen Butler 2, Jonathan Kane, Graham Shaw, John Goulding, Shane O'Donoghue, Eddie O'Malley)

A five goal first-half blitz put paid to any notion of an opening day surprise as the Glens comfortably held off the challenge of UCD at Belfield this afternoon. 5-0 at half-time was extended to seven by the final whistle with the goals fairly evenly shared out, Stephen Butler the only player to grab a double.

Pembroke 11 (Mick O'Connor 2, Justin Sherriff 2, Gordon Elliott 2, Maurice Elliott, Alan Giles, Conor Harte, Al Sothern, Craig Fulton) Clontarf 0

For Clontarf, the upside is that the toughest trip of the season is out of the way and they can focus on the challenges ahead. The IHL champions had five of their strike unit in scoring form as Andy McConnell and Adam Pritchard both made their debuts. The performance was marked by the battle for places with Craig Fulton likely to name the 18 for the EHL in the coming week.

YMCA 2 (Mikey Fry, Jacob Webber) Monkstown 2 (Gareth Watkins, Andy Ewington)

Major drama at Alexandra College as a massive seven players were sin-binned as YM and Monkstown tied their opening game of the season. A spectacular first minute Town goal from Gareth Wakins' reverse-stick was levelled by Mikey Fry's tap-in after good work by birthday boy Richie Pedreschi. Andy Ewington restored the lead with a drag-flick for a 2-1 at half-time.

Jacob Webber hit home a corner in the second half, though, to take a point. YM played much of the second half with reduced numbers as they received five yellow cards. They went to Pedreschi, Webber, Cliff Bailey, Rob Whelan and Will Powderly. Nick Dee and Alec Barrett were the Town players to take an enforced rest.

* For Adrian Boehm's photos from Pembroke vs Clontarf, click here; for Deryck Vincent's se from the game, click here and for Emer Keogh's photo's of Three Rock Rovers vs Railway Union, click here