INAUGURAL TAIN HURLING COMPETION 2012

Round "1"
Played at Sigerson Park , Strabane
Saturday, 4th February, 2012

Strabane Shamrock's, 2 gls. 12 pts ;
Lisbellaw St Patrick's, 1 gl. 14 pts.

In the Round "1" of the Inaugural Tain Senior Hurling League, hosts Strabane held out by narrow margin of single point, defeating their Lisbellaw visitors, with a score of 2 goals 12 points to 1 goal 14 points. This was a hugely competitive one hour of senior hurling, with no less than 8 draws in the opening half, and with telling scores 1 goal 8 points apiece the scene was set for second half competitive encounter. They Strabane side were first up out of the starting blocks with firstly a point and then a morale boosting second goal. However whilst they Shamrocks were encamped in the St Patrick's half for a six minutes they Strabane side only succeeded wasting a half dozen chances of scores by pucking the slithor wide. History deplores a vacuum, and they scoring time was quickly taken with further two points by visitors Lisbellaw. Despite that scoring success they Shamrocks hosts retained they lead right up and till they games end. Ironically it was Lisbellaw attackers who pucked over the last two points, but two points short of an outright victory. St Patrick's management used the occasion tom introduce three future hurling stars, Colum Mc Phillip's who lined out in goals and Tommy Cleary who was inserted at left half back, had a positive hour's hurling. Ciaran Corrigan, who was number three on the Lisbellaw subs., bench, came on in the games' dying minutes. Far too late to have any noticeable impact on the outcome this match. Chrissy Corry another new player was available on the bench.

The loosing of this game by they St Patrick's visitors, was due solely to their established players indecision in front of their opponent's goal. Anxiously deciding whether to go for a match winning goal or tap over for a more mundane point. Unquestionably Strabane's match winner was their mid-fielder Mark Kane, who registered an impressive total of 1 goal 5 points over the hour.

Manager, Fergal Stewart.

The Game-First Half.

This Round "1" game in the inaugural Tain Senior Hurling league of 2012

competition saw they Lisbellaw visitors narrowly being defeated by their Strabane hosts. It was the latter, who got this game off to a scoring start, when Malachy Quigg popped over his and his side's first point from play. St Patrick's answer was quick and accurate, when their ace left half forward Karl Kehoe pucked over his and side's first point, again from play, creating this matches first of many draws. However that equilibrium was short lived, when they Shamrock's Peter O'Connor clipped over his first and his side's second point from play. Returning to their attacking role Lisbellaw forced their Strabane host into conceding a '65, which the inform Ryan Bogue converted into his first and his sides second point. Thus bring they games second draw of two points. Moments later it was all square again, when they Shamrock's Mark Kane and they St Patrick's Andrew Breslin exchanged points, to bring they games draw of three points apiece. Gong into this games second quarter it was the Shamrock's took the scoring initiative, when martin Devine pucked over his first and his sides fourth point from play. Now it was the time for Lisbellaw's literary big men to come to the fore, when Brendan McGarry, when reaching high into they murky north west Tyrone sky to grab an incoming slithor to then effortlessly to puck over for his first and his sides fourth point, to bring about this matches' fourth draw. Then as this game was into its second quarter both visitors and hosts exchanged points, when Sean Corrigan for St Patrick's and Mark Kane to bring about this games fifth draw of five points apiece. With less than ten minutes to the games interval, when both sides massively stepped up their attacks, resulting firstly in a goal by Lisbellaw's right full forward John Duffy from play. However Strabane's ace scorer Mark Kane stepped up to the plate and equalled the game, with a first goal for his side. Moments later they same player put hi side back in front, when he popped over his sides sixth point. However the very inform Brendan McGarry drew his side level for the seventh time, when he pucked over a well taken from play. As the dying moments of this games opening half was quickly passing two valuable points were added to by Ryan Bogue and Karl Kehoe. For Lisbellaw and the very lively Mark Kane was on hand to slot over two his sides last two points of the opening half.

Half time scores

Strabane Shamrock's, 1 gl. 8 pts ; Lisbellaw St Patrick's, 1 gl. 8 pts.

Second half

Strabane First Out Off the Starting Blocks

As in this games opening it was the matches hosts that got off to scoring start, when Strabane's Peter O'Connor popped over from play. Though they north west side now had a hiatus of six wides in the same amount of minutes, moments later they hosts went decisively in front, when Martin Devine banged home Shamrock's second goal, but this time from a free. Lisbellaw's fight back was modest but effective, with both Andrew Breslin, and Brendan McGarry pucking over their sides ninth and tenth points from play to bring the second half's late third quarter scoring to 1 goal 10 for Lisbellaw to 2 goals 10 points for Strabane. With this match now going into its fourth and final quarter a note deliberate decisiveness entered both sides play. The respective defences closed any attempts any further major scores, now encouraging both sides to iniately to minor scoring initiative. This attacking strategy best paid off for the Strategy best paid for the Shamrock's who obviously had chalked up their quota of goals, and now concentrating adding further matching winning points from Peter O'Connor, Mark Kane. For they visiting Lisbellaw side it was do-or-die, with several frusting and failed attempts for a second goal. However it was to mid-fielder Ryan Bogue St Patrick's mentors and supported looked to. The ace scorer now pucked over his and sides last points.. However it was two points short of an outright win. For the latter and his team mates it was case, where they literary gifted their hosts Strabane a victory

Final Scores

Strabane Shamrock's, 2 gls. 12 pts ; Lisbellaw St Patrick's, 1 gl. 14 pts.

Referee, Hugo Wallace, Burt.

Teams, Lisbellaw St Patrick's, Colum McPhillip's*, Daniel Teague, Gus Bannon, Shane Mulholland, Mathew Martin, Colm Rice, Tommy Cleary*, Ryan Bogue ( 4 pts.), Andrew Breslin ( 2 pts.), Peter Timoney, Brendan McGarry (3 pts.), Karl Kehoe ( 2 pts.), John Duffy ( 1 gl.), Sean Corrigan ( 3 pts.) & Brian Jones.

Subs., D. Jones, Declan McGarry, Ciaran Corrigan, Chrissy Corry*, Joe Gavin, David Harte & Declan O'Brien.

Manager, Kevin Corrigan; Ass. Manager, Peter McEvoy.

Strabane Shamrock's, Nial Gallagher, Gavin Namee, John Morris, Ciaran O'Neill, Damian McClean, Malachy Quigg ( 2 pts.), Mark Kane ( 1 gl. 5 pts.), Peter O'Connor ( 2 pts.), Brian McGillen, Mark Devine ( 2 pts.) Gerard Gilmore ( 2 pts.), Damian McGilligian & Barry Harkin. Tweet

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