Nobber 0-13 Ballinabrackey 1-10

An injury time point from scorer in chief Brian Farrell snatched a draw Nobber in this tough exciting match at Nobber on Saturday evening.

Leading 0-6 to 0-2 at the break Nobber had the best of affairs in the opening period which saw the visitors reduced to 14 in the 29th minute when losing one of their midfielders to a straight red.

On the restart Ballinabrackey were a much improved side with the loss of a player proving more inspirational than deteramental.

Playing with renewed vigour they had levelled by the 42nd minute then shortly afterwards going ahead courtesy of a very fortuitous goal.

But once again Nobber dug deep and with Brian Farrell sending over some fine points which incidently brought his total to 10 they snatched a draw to share the spoils.

Apart from Brian Farrell there was good displays from. Karl Casserly, Eanna Fagan, Pauric Weldon and Brendan Heffernan 

Nobber scorers: Brian Farrell 0-10, Alan Farrell, K Casserly and Brendan Heffernan 0-1 each

Nobber: B McEntee, P Weldon, P Meade, B Cassidy, E Fagan, S O Brien, B Heffernan, A Farrell, J Condra, R Hughes, N Farrell, D Lambe, K Casserly, F McEntee, B Farrell. Subs: Tony McEntee for Niall Farrell (injured), Gavin Farrelly for Fagan

Ballinabrackey Report

Ballinabrackey 1-10 Nobber 0-13

On a lovely night for football Ballinabrackey made the trip to Nobber to play the 4th round of Division 2 of the All County League. Both teams started brightly with Ballinabrackey opening the scoring, with 2 points on the board for both teams early in the game Nobber then took control. Ballinabrackey were wasteful up front and Nobber were sharper down the other end and opening up a gap of 4 points before the end of the first half.

Upon the resumption Ballinabrackey made a super start and scored 1.3 to Nobber's 1 point in the opening stages and managed to get in front. However Nobber steadied themselves and through the accurate boot of Brian Farrell levelled proceedings and took the lead again. However to their credit Ballinabrackey fought back again and got the equalizing score. On a night when both teams could have won the game but neither deserved to lose, a draw was a fair result. 

Ballinabrackey: Brendan Byrne, Darragh Daly, Nicky Judge, David Thompson, Eric Clancy, Michael Kearney, Stephen Donoghue, Seamus Curry, Chris O Connor, Damian Carroll, Collie McNally, Trevor Bannon, Daniel Quinn, Andrew Munnelly, Dean McNamee. Subs Used: Daire Kennedy and Derek Flynn. 

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