by Declan Rooney 

Sligo manager Niall Carew says star youngster Kyle Cawley could be set to miss out on Sunday's clash with Roscommon as he focuses on his Leaving Cert exams.

The 18-year-old, who started his exams yesterday scored 1-6 to help St Mary's to their first Sligo SFC title since 2001 last year, and also starred in Summerhill's first Connacht Colleges' title victory in 31 years a few months ago.

This weekend Sligo will look for their second Connacht semi-final victory over Roscommon in a row at Dr Hyde Park. But it may have come too early for the Summerhill student who only began his Leaving Cert on Wednesday.

"Kyle is doing his Leaving Cert. He is going grand, a good young fella, it will take him a few years to develop but he is good for us. A few league campaigns and that should get him going.

"There is healthy competition up in the forwards, he is training well but it would be a big ask for him to play a game like that in the middle of his Leaving Cert," said Carew.

However elsewhere Carew has reported a clean bill of health as Sligo look to reach back to back Connacht finals, where they would face the winners of Galway and Mayo.

Adrian Marren is fully fit despite only featuring twice in the league, while Pat Hughes, Mark Breheny and Brendan Egan are also ready to play their part.

"We are in good shape. Whether it is good luck or good management we don't know, we are very happy that we have everyone available to us - that's the first time this year.

"We are thrilled with that because we have been missing seven or eight players all year. But as it stands we have everyone available," he said.

Roscommon reached the Division 1 semi-finals this year and although Sligo only finished fifth in Division 3, Carew is confident his side can build on last year's win over them.

"The win over them last year has a great impact because now we know we can beat them. We didn't know we could beat them last year.

"We are going in as complete underdogs and rightly so. We know we can beat them but we have to play really really well."

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