Carbury retained the Frank Kennedy Memorial Cup with a 4-1 win over Manorhamilton Rangers at McSharry Park on Saturday night. 

Fola Ayorinde netted a brace, while Mark McGoldrick and Ryan McManus were also on the scoresheet for Carbury, with Patrick Montgomery pulling one back late on for the men from Manor. 

In truth, the scoreline doesn’t truly reflect the game.

But for the efforts of goalkeeper Tony Clarke, Manor Rangers could easily have gone in ahead at half-time. 

A good save from the veteran Clarke denied Montgomery down the right hand side after five minutes. 

Carbury went ahead after 6 minutes, when McGoldrick got on the end of excellent ball from Ray Walsh. 

The Leitrim men had chances to get back level, and Carbury had Tony Clarke to thank as they went in ahead at the break. 

Seamus Ryder’s shot was saved by Clarke on 10 minutes, with Cathal O’Connell forcing another excellent save from Clarke seconds later. 

Ryder then picked out O’Connell inside the Carbury box, but his effort was blocked. 

Ayorinde and McManus had chances to extend Carbury’s lead, but Manor certainly had the best of the first half chances. 

Carbury again were thanking Clarke when he pushed Michael Mulholland’s header wide earlier in the second half. 

Despite their efforts, Manor found themselves 2-0 down on 67 minutes when McManus picked out Ayorinde and the Carbury man rounded the keeper to make it 2-0. 

Three minutes later it was 3-0, a harsh scoreline on Manor. 

Ross McLoughlin’s ball came to Ayorinde who found the net. 

And McManus made it 4-0 on 88 minutes from the right hand side after Kilean White came off his line. 

Manor got a late goal back through Montgomery in added time, but Carbury ran out 4-1 winners to retain the trophy.