One win, one draw and one defeat is not bad when your contesting in three county finals last weekend first up was our minors when we were second best in the semi final of this years county premier football championship going down to Fr Casey's in Ballyagran last Saturday evening. The score line of 1-17 to 1-06 this was no reflection on the way our lads played, they played well in the first half while playing up the hill in a very close game. Our goal keeper Gary Griffin and his back line of Brien O Neill, Michael Kelleher and Desmond Mc Daid played a very tight marking game which kept Fr. Caseys forwards at bay and if our forward line were on form on the day the half time score of 0-05 to our only point we would have been level at the break. Our only point in the first half came from the boot of Brendan Mullins. In the second half we had a great chance of a goal in the first five minutes but kicked wide but midway of the second half our young men began to tire and Fr. Casey,Äôs ran out easy winners. Brendan Mullins got of goal and also added one more point while Owen Hanrahan, Mark Higgins, Jason Mullins and Padraig Reale hit over points in the second half. It's a pity that we could not repeat in reaching the final as we did last year but our young minors did put in a great performance. Pat Tobin, Robert Guerin, Brendan Mullins, Andrew Kennedy, Owen Hanrahan Mark Higgins, Michael Downey and Patrick O Shea all tried their best. We line out as follows Gary Griffin, Brien O Neill, Michael Kelleher, Desmond Mc Daid, Andrew Kennedy, Pat Tobin, Robert Guerin, Owen Hanrahan, Patrick O Shea, Mark Higgins, Padraig Reale, Michael Downey, Jason Mullins, Brendan Mullins and Jamie Cross. Our under 12 footballers let this final slip away when we were well on top of this county final, but with only a few minutes left we left in Croom in to equalizes 2-05 to 1-08 to done it all again in the two weeks time in the replay our team and scorers were as follows Antoine McNally, Jamie Kennedy, Alan Walsh, Dylan O Byrne, Ashling Duhig, Shane Halpin (1-02) Alan Hogan, Craig Collopy (0-02) Dylan O Dwyer, Craig McNamara (0-01) Jonathon O Hanlon, Danny Taylor, Dylan Moore, Thomas Madden (0-01) and Aidan O Brien(0-01) Subs used were Mark Whelan, Brian Bennett, Jamie Malone, Owen Storan, George Ryan, Darragh Quilligan, Cory Wells, Colin Maher and Lee Gleeson. Our management team were Peter Sheehan, Tony Malone and Jimmy Quilligan. Our junior hurlers have now reached the semi finals of the county junior A hurling championship following their great win over Kilmallock 0-19 to 1-15 in the Gaelic Grounds. This is a great achievement by all involved with the team and the Club we have now reached both semi finals in the adult grade with our intermediate footballers also in the county semi final. We were down one point at the break 0-11 to 1-09 with Patrick Mullins hitting over seven points with four from play also on the score sheet in the first half was Kevin Maher (0-01) Barry O Doherty (0-01) Niall Phelan (0-01) and Brendan Mullins (0-01) In the second half we show that we can match any side in the county when we out scored Kilmallock by eight points to their six points with Patrick Mullins hitting over five of our points Barry O Doherty and Brendan Mullins also got their second points of the game with Michael Geary hitting over our final score from play. Paul Doherty who was playing goals was the teams man of the match when he pulled off many vital saves when needed others that shine on the day was our captain who is just back from injury Kevin Maher also was Niall Phelan, Christopher Reals, Tony Quigley, Kieran Dore and Colm O Brien. We now look forward to see after next weekend others quarter finals who we will meet in the semi final. We line out as follows Paul Doherty, Kieran Dore, Thomas Cross, Colm O Brien, Tony Quigley, Wayne Cronin, Christopher Reals, Kevin Maher (0-01) Barry O Doherty (0-02) Niall Phelan (0-01) Dermott Phelan, Stephen Murphy, Michael Geary (0-01) Patrick Mullins (0-12 (7frees) and Brendan Mullins (0-02). Sub used David Hurley and Gearoid Phelan. Panel on the day was Darragh Cronin, Jim Hennigar, Keith Phelan, Joe Markham, Padraig Reale, Mark Phelan, Christan Meehan, David Sheehan, Anthony Kett and Sean Ryan. Manager: Thomas Downes. Selectors: Sean Maher & Laurence Cross. This weekend our under 15 hurlers are away to Old Christians on Sunday morning at 11am and later that day our under 21 hurlers are in action when we will take on Mungret in Monaleen at 5pm. Tweet

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