Carnaross 1-8

Drumconrath 0-8

Junior A Championship (Round 3)
Played in Kilmainhamwood - 22/5/2015

A strong second-half display resulted in Carnaross picking up a crucial second win of the campaign against Drumconrath.

Following the sides League clash a week earlier which was won by Carnaross, Drumconrath started the game intent on laying down a marker. They had four early chances in the opening five minutes but all were missed including three wides and an open goal attempt which came back of the crossbar. The game's first score came from Carnaross when John L McGee split the posts but Drumconrath continued their early pressure and went on to hit the next four scores without reply as Carnaross struggled to generate a chance at the opposite end. When they did make the breakthrough five minutes before half-time the score came from an unlikely source after corner-back Stephen Dawson finished a fine move with a point from play. Drumconrath added a free on the stroke of half-time to take well deserved 0-5 to 0-2 half-time lead.

Following a poor display in the opening period, it was a different Carnaross team which emerged after the restart. Charles Brogan landed a point in the opening minute before the hard working Shane Casserly fisted over moments later. When John L McGee pointed seven minutes in it left the sides all level at 0-5 each. However, Carnaross were very fortunate not to be three behind once again when Drumconrath struck a penalty wide of Ollie Murphy's post following a bad mistake in the Carnaross defence after ten minutes. Drumconrath edged in front once more but the game swung in favour of Carnaross when Charles Brogan got the game's only goal when he fired to the top corner to give his side a two point lead. Carnaross doubled their advantage with two points in as many minutes from Patrick Nugent and Pierce Fleming. Carnaross defended well in the closing stages restricting Drumconrath to just two converted frees while John L McGee replied at the other end to seal a three point victory for Carnaross who registered all of their scores from play.

Carnaross: Ollie Murphy; Tomás Plunkett, Eamonn Comaskey, Stephen Dawson (0-1); Peter S. Farrelly, Ian Donoghue, Peter Carpenter; Charles Brogan (1-1), Thomas Nugent; Cillian Comaskey, Cian O'Reilly, Patrick Nugent (0-1); Pierce Fleming (0-1), John L McGee (0-3), Shane Casserly (0-1).

In Kilmainhamwood
Carnaross 1-8 Drumconrath 0-8

The ones each side don't count is what can be said about this Junior A 3rd Round Championship game played in Kilmainhamwood's fine Grounds on Friday evening.

Drumconrath's  tally of 11 wides to their opponents 3 tells one story but when you count in a missed penalty struck wide mid way through the 2nd half along with a glaring miss from 2 metres with no one on the Carnaross goal line just just 4 minutes gone are probably the two biggest talking points from the game.

Carnaross through John L Magee got on the score board 1st after a minute and while Stephan Crosby pointed twice on 11 and 13 minutes the best score of the half came on 16 minutes from Jamie Myles.

Crosby pointed after Drums had clocked up their 6th 1st half wides but Magee proved Carnaross could miss too as he hit a 13m free wide. Drumconrath native Stephan Dawson fired over for the Ross as Alan Byrne finishe the 1st half scoring with a free to leave Drums 0-5 to 0-2 up at the break.

Whatever wind advantage was to be had was with Drumconrath after the break but it was Carnaross who started best with Charlie Brogan pointing within a minute. Two further points leveled the game before Myles hit a fine point after 11 minutes.

Then came that penalty miss and within minutes Brogan hammered to the net to put Carnaross ahead for the 1st time. Tails up Carnaross pushed on and 2 more points put them 4 points up. Byrne added two late frees and Magee finished the scoring with another point to put them in pole position for qualification.

Drumconrath; Sean Kane; John Lynch, Thomas Carolan, Aiden Tighe; Damien Glass, Peter Tighe, Eoin Martin; Peter McEvoy, Sean McMahon; Alan Byrne (0-3), Jamie Myles (0-2), Tomas Conlon; Derek Duff, Stephan Crosby (0-3), Chris Tighe. Subs; John McDermott for Lynch, Conor O'Halloran for Duff, Colm McEvoy for Martin and Gavin Finnegan for Conlon.

Junior D
In Rathkenny
Curraha 2-16 Drumconrath 1-5

Drumconrath's 2nd string battled gamely for 50 minutes and when Oran Finnegan netted it looked like they might have a chance but Curraha pulled away and 2 injury time goals put a bit of gloss on their victory.

Drums trailed 0-7 to 0-3 at the break as Terry Halpenny,  Father and Son Thomas & Dylan Dardis and Daniel Myles did best.

Drumconrath; Thomas Dardis; Cathal Dunne, Terry Halpenny, Stephan Lynch; Robert McEntaggart, Gavin McEvoy (0-1), Brendan Crosby; Oran Finnegan (1-1), David O'Halloran; Patrick Farrelly, Daniel Myles, Dylan Dardis; Peter Saul (0-1), Alan Dunne, Daniel Byrne (0-2). Sub Mark Reilly

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