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The senior footballers opened their account in this years Intermediate Football Championship with a well deserved win away to Naomh Comhghall at Dunsilly.
We played some nice football and the old cliche that goals win games was definitely highlighted. Naomh Comhghall battled hard and made us work right to the end. However, while the winning margin was three points, if we are realistic we were guilty of missing several glaring other goal opportunities which would have given the final scoreline a truer reflection of our performance.
The senior hurlers let slip an eight-point advantage at the break to get out of Fennell Park with a draw after Ard Eoin fought back in the second half in this opening fixture of the Junior Hurling Championship.
We were on the scoreboard early on, when a puck out from Gearoid Cosgrove found Chris Gallagher who fed the sliotar to Marcas Toner, Deaglan Mooney supported the play on the outside, took possession and finished with an excellent opening point. Chris Gallagher then doubled our advantage with a pointed free from a central position about 35 metres out. Ard Eoin opened their account in the 4th minute also from a pointed free, but Chris Gallagher was again on target as he pointed a free from the right-side line and then followed up with another point after good work from Cormac Maguire. Stephen McGivern then struck a nice point before Ard Eoin registered their second point from a free. We opened a nice lead after 17 minutes when Stephen McGivern went on a great solo run, fed a handpass inside to Anthony Rowntree who struck to the net and from the resultant puck out he added another point. Colm McKee then struck the final point of the half after blocking the sliotar and the subsequent break was passed to him, and he duly converted to give us a 0-2 to 1-7 lead.
The senior hurlers travelled to Glenravel to take on Conn Mag Aoidh in their latest league game and were comprehensively outplayed all over the park, resulting in a heavy defeat.
Playing against a strong wind we didn’t do enough to nullify the Conn Mag Aoidh onslaught, and they opened up a commanding lead at the break 2-12 to 0-6, with our scores coming from Chris Gallagher 0-4 and points from Colm McKee and Stephen McGivern.
The second half wasn’t any better and we were never able to get anywhere near to mount any sort of challenge. Points from Chris Gallagher 0-2, Stephen McGivern 0-2 and Deaglan Mooney were merely consolation scores as Conn Mag Aoidh ran up a big score for a deserved win 4-23 to 0-11.
Scorers: Chris Gallagher 0-6, Colm McKee 0-1, Stephen McGivern 0-3 and Deaglan Mooney 0-1
Following on from a midweek defeat, away to Ruairi Ogs, on a scoreline of 2-16 to 1-9, the senior hurlers were looking to get back on track when they welcomed Gortnamóna to Páirc Mhic Dhaibhéid.
The sliotar was driven down the right side of the pitch towards Cormac Maguire who duly controlled it, stepped inside his man onto his left and split the posts for the opening score. Gortnamóna opened their account with two successive points, from frees to edge in front. Deaglan Mooney levelled the game with a long range point, following a pin point pass from Cormac Maguire but Gort went in front again with a point. However, Chris Gallagher displayed some fine stickwork to control a pass from Colm McKee resulting in the equalising score. The next two points came courtesy of Colm McKee and Caoimhin Rainey and we opened up a goal advantage when Chris Gallagher fired over a point, from a free out towards the sideline.
The senior footballers are still looking for that elusive win after a defeat away to Naomh Pádraig at Kirkwoods on Saturday evening in what was the final game before the league split.
We were never in the game as Naomh Pádraig established an 0-8 to 1-1 lead which included 2 nice two point scores, with Nathan Maginn kicking an excellent point and Gerard Slane converting a penalty.
We trailed 1-10 to 1-2 at the break with Gerard Slane adding a point from a 45 but in the second half we failed to make any inroads to the deficit with Naomh Pádraig scoring 0-8 to our 0-2 to gain the win on a 1-18 to 1-4 score line.
