Walterstown 0-12 Castletown 2-5

Castletown's competitive year started with this 1 point  defeat away to Walterstown in this A league Div 2 opener played in windy conditions on Sunday morning.

Castletown played against the wind in the first half and went in at the break six points down 9 points to 3. James Finnerty opened the scoring on 9mins and Kevin Ross tagged on 2 points in  the 23rd and 24th minutes.

Walterstown started the second half well and scored 3 points in a row in the first 4 minutes of the half which was there only scores of the half. Barry Smith then came off the bench for Castletown on 38minutes and scored a point with his first involvement for their opening score of the second half.

Then Castletown started to get to grips around the middle and on 15mins Tommy Smith netted with a deft lob over Walterstown keeper John Davis to bring them closer to the home team. Kevin Ross scored a free on 48 mins and then a penalty when Barry Smith in space was given a great pass with the keeper to beat who fouled him inside the parallelogram on 58 mins to leave it 2-5 to 12 pts.

This was the final score with Castletown rueing 5 wides and 2 balls dropped into the keepers hands for them in second half.

Castletown Team: Jonathan Ginnitty, Joey Carry, Johnny Metry, Noel Smyth, Ross Blaney, Gerry Farrelly, Noel Farrelly, Frances Hoey, Robert Hoey, Damien Ginnitty, Kevin Ross, James Finnerty, Tommy Smith, Darren Finney, Shane Hoey.
Subs; Jamie Mc Mahon for Noel Farrelly at halftime and Barry Smith for Damien Ginnitty on 38mins. Next for Castletown is Ballinabrackey on 14th of February at 2.30 in Castletown.

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