There was cup final heartbreak for Sligo Rovers as they were beaten by UCD after extra time in the EA Sports Men’s U20 Enda McGuill Cup final. 

Centre half Gareth McElroy headed Rovers into the lead early on, but the Students, playing at their own home ground found an equaliser through Cathal McCarthy, forcing the game to extra-time. 

Rovers had what surely would have been the winner chalked off two minutes from time when the referee’s assistant on the stand side of the Bowl flagged Daire Patton offside, after he had run on to a through ball from Niall Kenny. Subsequent television replays however show Patton to have timed his run to perfection. 

The defining moment of the tie arrived five minutes into extra time when Roy Lawlor fired home Colin Bolton’s cross from out wide. 

UCD: Dara Kavanagh, Harry Whelan, Mark Flood (Lorcan Moore, 101), Niall Holohan (Don O’Toole, 46), Cathal McCarthy, Colin Bolton, Oran McLaughlin (Kyle Donoghue, 78), Callum Wynne (Jamie Ryan, 78), Roy Lawlor, Stephen Mohan (Hugh Parker, 46), Max Mason (Matthew Alonge, 46).

Sligo Rovers: Kyle Gabbidon, Colm Mooney, Gareth McElroy, Conor Cannon, Kyle McDonagh (Oisin Kelly, 95), Kevin Muldoon (James Lukau, 95), Daire Patton, Shea Malone, Thomas Morley (David Jonathan, 113), Michael Clifford (Niall Kenny, 62), Rasheed Yeboah (Luke Mavrak, 71).

Referee: John Walsh.