The U14 7-aside U14 Cup and Shield competitions where held in Dunganny on Sat 29th Aug with Walterstown securing the Cup and Clann na nGael securing the Shield.
Group A comprised of Seneschalstown, Dunderry, Castletown & Summerhill while Group B was comprised of Walterstown, St Vincents/Curraha, Clann na nGael & Rathkenny. At the end of the group stage the top two teams in each group progressed to the Cup semi-final while the 3rd and 4th placed teams in each group played out the Shield competition.
In Rd1 Walterstown, the Div1 Spring League winners took on the Div2 Spring League winners Clann na nGael with Walterstown running out 6pt winners having led start to finish. FT Walterstown 12 v 06 Clann na nGael.
Next up for Walterstown were St Vincents/Curraha with Walterstown ending with 16pts to spare over their opponents. FT Walterstown 18 v 02 St Vincents/Curraha.
In the final game of the group stages Walterstown met an in form Rathkenny and after a slow start Walterstown ended with 15pts to spare. FT Walterstown 19 v 04 Rathkenny
Having won all their group games Walterstown encountered 7-aside specialists, Summerhill in the Cup semi-final but the south Meath side found The Blacks to be in uncompromising mood with Walterstown again coming out on top setting up a final encounter with Seneschalstown. FT Walterstown 16 v 02 Summerhill.
In the Shield final Clann na nGael accounted for Rathkenny while in the Cup Final Walterstown built up a solid 08 v 02 interval lead with some fantastic movement, support play & score taking. Seneschalstown for their part defended stoutly demonstrating excellent discipline in the tackle and showing great technique with an outstandingly timed, text-book "near hand tackle" on a Walterstown attacker as he bore down on the Seneschalstown goal right on the stroke of half-time.
HT Walterstown 0-8 Seneschalstown 0-2
After the break Walterstown recommenced on the front foot picking off a couple of scores but Seneschalstown dug deep and started to eat into the Walterstown lead with a number of well executed moves and scores but with the clock running down Walterstown held on for a merited and well deserved win.
FT Walterstown 0-10 Seneschalstown 0-7
Walterstown Squad: Conor Farrelly, Timi Sowunmi, Diarmuid Freeman, Daniel Murphy, Jake Cullen, Luke Cullen, Adam Barrett, Sean McGinley, Adam Treanor, Darren Finnegan, Conor McGuire & Adam Cummins.
The Clann Na nGael squad
Seneschalstown U-14's reached the finals of the County 7 a-side Tournament held in Dunganny last Saturday 29th August with two groups of four teams involved.
Seneschalstown's first game was against a very lively Summerhill team but once the Seneschalstown players got to the pitch of the game they ran out winners by 0-14 to 0-06.
In the second game we played Dunderry, again the game was played at a frantic pace with Dunderry scoring two frees off the ground to give them four points but again the Seneschalstown lads had too much in the tank and again ran out winners by 0-16 to 0-08.
The third and last group game was against Castletown and again the Seneschalstown lads were tested all the way with some great scores taken by both teams but Seneschalstown eventually ran out winners on a 0-11 to 0-02 score line.
This left us top of Group A and consequently played St Vincents/Curraha in the semi-final who were runners up in Group B, and needless to say this was another step up in tempo and workrate but with a high Seneschalstown tackle rate the turnovers came and this was the winning of the game on a final score of 0-14 to 0-07.
The final was contested by the same two teams as the regional qualifier held in Seneschalstown a week earlier when Seneschalstown eventually won out after a 20 metre kick off. Walterstown came through their group and semi-final also unbeaten and the final was a cracking game once again. Walterstown hit the ground running in the first half and scoring freely compared to Seneschalstown, who just never got going in that half and went in six points down at half time on a score line of Walterstown 0-08 Seneschalstown 0-02.
But these Seneschalstown lads are a resilient group and really took the game to Walterstown from the word go in the second half registering four unanswered points within 3 minutes, then Walterstown got two points to leave the margin at four points with only minutes remaining. Seneschalstown then scored two more points but unfortunately ran out of time and Walterstown eventually ran out two point winners and consequently gained revenge for the previous weeks defeat.
Final Score Walterstown 0-10 Seneschalstown 0-08.
Both teams served up a feast of good football and all the teams who stayed to watch the final really got value for money with the result in the balance to the final whistle.
Seneschalstown Team : Padraig Finegan, Simon Rooney, Cathal Hickey, Joseph Moore, Sean Commons, Jamie Kirwan, Alan Carey, Liam Maguire, Ross Mullen, Woodley Nicholson, Josh Ryan, Seanie Dalton.
Seneschalstown players and mentors would like to thank Coiste na Mhi Secretary Ciaran Flynn his officials / referee's etc. a big thank you for hosting us in Dunganny.
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