JFC: facile win for Fionnbarra
July 14, 2014
Andy McCann Naomh Fionnbarra
ST NICHOLAS 0-1
Naomh Fionnbarra began their bid for Junior Championship glory with a facile victory over St Nicholas in Drogheda on Sunday afternoon.
The Nicks have been experiencing a difficult season to date and the draw certainly wasn't kind to them in handing them a meeting with one of the competition's favourites.
Unfortunately for the Drogheda men, the game went very much to form and within ten minutes of the throw-in the game was as good as over.
The Finbarrs went into the championship hoping to make up for the disappointment of losing the final last year, and the certainly couldn't be accused of complacency as they came straight out of the blocks. In that blistering spell they tagged on 2-6 with the help of goals from Jack Butterly and Bernard Osborne.
Before the break, Darren McConnon added a third goal to make it 3-11 to no score while the Nicks task became even more difficult when they were reduced to 14 men.
The second half followed a similar pattern with the Barrs adding goals from Bernard Osborne, Conor Osborne and Kieran Murphy to complete the win.
The Nicks did get off the mark in the second half through a Gary Shevlin point.
NH FIONNBARRA: Allan Mathews; Conor Lenehan, Colin McGrane Kieran Lenehan; Brian Sharkey, Oisin McGee 0-1, Hugh Osborne 0-1; Darren McConnon 1-0, John Doyle; Padraig Butterly 0-2, Stuart Osborne 0-3, Martin Murphy; Conor Osborne 1-0, Jack Butterly 1-2, Bernard Osborne 2-4. Subs: Andy McCann 0-3 for J Butterly, Larry McEntee Ryan 0-2 for M Murphy, Hugh McGrane for C Lenehan, Kieran Murphy 1-0 for H Osborne, Nicholas Butterly for D McConnon, William woods 0-2 for B Osborne.
ST NICHOLAS: Alex Reilly; Shane Finneagan, Darren Thornton, Andrew Starrs; Ciaran O'Brien, Craig Donnelly, Jason Maguire; Declan Heeney, Brian Carter; Keith Cluskey, Richie Kelly, Stephan Hodgins; Richie Campbell, Gary Shevlin 0-1, Jamie Carroll. Subs: Jack Downey for Campbell, Barry Woods for Maguire, Sean Hoey for Finneagan, Ciaran Branigan for O'Brien, Ciaran Floyd for Starrs. Tweet
