St Brigids 4-12  Drumconrath 0-6

Dull and windy conditions threatened to put a dampener on St Brigids opening game of the Junior Football Championship, however the final whistle would see the side with a well deserved win.

From the get go St Brigids displayed a very strong work effort and ended the first half with a 9 point lead over Drumconrath.

The second half proved no different. St Brigids managed to dominate possession and hit away score after score.

The end result seen the Ballinacree side take home all important points and a great boost of positivity. 

St Brigids: D Moore, F Heery, A Geraghty, P Tuite, P Plunkett (0-1), M Flood(1-1), D Scully, L Tuite, K Gilsenan (1-3), A Skelly (0-1), AJ Gilsenan, S Gilsenan, J Blake (1-4), R Tighe (1-0), C Farrelly (0-2). Subs: D Geraghty for L Tuite, P Skelly for S Gilsenan, D Tighe for C Farrelly, A Moore for P Tuite

Drumconrath Report

St Brigids 4-12 Drumconrath 0-6

Drumconrath suffered their biggest Championship defeat in a long number of years as the Ballinacree men had matters their own way for most of the 60 minutes.

Drumconrath started brightly with Patrick Farrelly pointing the Reds in front early on but after that it was one way traffic as Drumconrath lined out without 11 of the 2017 team and that turn over in playing numbers to last years quarter Finalists proved a hurdle too high.

With Daniel Byrne, Terry Skelly, Wayne Reilly, Brendan Lyons, Damien Glass, Sean McMahon, Eoin Martin, Paul, Aidan, Christopher and Graham Tighe all absent for one reason or another Drumconrath found the going far too hot and never really looked like getting a winning start.

Last year Drumconrath ran eventual Championships and neighbours Meath Hill to a couple of points in Round 1, proceeded to win the remaining Group games before under preforming in a quarter Final that was their for the taking. The absence of so many players proved that this years Round 1 was too much to handle.

Drums gave as good as they got in the 1st quarter when they trailed 0-4 to 0-1 but a Kevin Gilsenan goal in the 20th minute seemed to beak their resolve and a penalty goal scored by Michael Flood drove a second nail in the coffin and left the half time score 2-6 to 0-3.

The introduction of 3 of the above gave Drumconrath a bit of a lift as Farrelly again pointed early in the 2nd half, but a 3rd Brigids goal from Joseph Blake early in the 2nd half really had the result settled. 

The second half scoring was identical to the 1st (2-6 to 0-3) as a Ryan Tighe goal with time almost up rubbed salt into Drumconrath's wounds who now must rally the troops to tackle another North West team next Sunday in Round 2.

Drumconrath; Eoin Muldoon; David O'Halloran, Patrick Dunne, John Lynch; Jamie Myles, Peter Tighe, Cathal Dunne; Stephan Crosby (0-1), Robert McEntaggart; Shaun Murray, Tomas Conlon, Derek Duff; Patrick Farrelly (0-2), Gavin Finnegan, Cathal McEvoy (0-1). Subs; Terry Skelly (0-1) for Lynch, Sean McMahon for Murray, Damien Glass (0-1) for McEvoy, James McMahon for Duff.  

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