Roscommon put themselves into Monday morning’s draw for the All-Ireland senior football championship preliminary quarter-finals after seeing off Cavan by 3-20 to 1-20 at Pearse Park this evening.

Both sides had been winless in the group stages coming into this third-round encounter, meaning a place in the knock-out stages was up for grabs and it was the Connacht men that earned it.

Davy Burke’s charges had led by 0-7 to 0-5 when Diarmuid Murtagh sent in their first goal on 21 minutes and they’d go on to hold a 1-11 to 0-10 lead at half-time.

Brian Stack registered the Rossies’ second major five minutes into the restart and, while Cavan were able to pull back a goal through Dara McVeety some 13 minutes later, they’d concede another umpire’s green flag soon afterwards.

This time talisman Enda Smith rifled to the Breffni net, making it 3-15 to 1-17, and the time remaining saw Conor Cox (2), Ciaran Lennon and Murtagh all sailing over points before Andy Glennon rounded off the winners’ tally.

Congratulations lads! 👏

We will now play in a Preliminary Quarter-Final next weekend.

The draw will be made on RTÉ Radio 1 on Monday at 8:30am.#RosGAA pic.twitter.com/AVcy5foSjo

— Roscommon GAA (@RoscommonGAA) June 15, 2024

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