Seneschalstown 1-08 Donaghmore/Ashbourne 2-13

Seneschalstown were left to rue a slow opening quarter where they were kept scoreless as Donaghmore/Ashbourne earned another victory to keep them top of the P.R Coyne & Sons Football League Division 1 table on Saturday evening in Fr. Tully Park.

Seneschalstown didn’t score until the 19th minute by which stage the visitors had 1-06 on the board, however Seneschalstown were guilty of coughing up some simple scores from mistakes and indiscipline as they made what was already a tricky assignment all the more difficult.

Before Seneschalstown did register, Dylan Keating had looked threatening on a number of occasions and it was the number 11 who put Seneschalstown on the scoreboard.   A two pointer for the visitors followed before Alan Mulvany kicked Seneschasltown’s second point in the 25th minute. The sides swapped scores before end of the opening period with Robbie Finnegan kicking a 45’ for Seneschalstown.

Seneschalstown battled more gamely in the second period and despite conceding the first score almost immediately the hosts replied with three in a row through Alan Mulvany and Dylan Keating who got two of them. Darren O’Brien made space for himself to clip over Seneschasltown’s seventh score in the 46th minute after a good move which made it 1-13 to 0-07.

With three minutes left, Robbie Finnegan kicked his second 45’ before Keating got the goal he had threatened for a long time when he finished low to the corner of the net. A five point margin would probably have been a fair reflection of the second half but from the resulting kickout Donaghmore/Ashbourne went up the pitch and added a second goal which saw them run out eight point victors in the end.

Seneschalstown: James Meade, Charles McCarthy, Conor McDonnell, Cormac Carolan, Collie Scanlon, Danny Waters, Éamon Finnegan, Darren O’Brien (0-01),  Robbie Finnegan (0-02, 2 45’s), Will Finegan, Dylan Keating (1-03), Ronan Conneely, Cian Hosie, Bryan Clarke, Alan Mulvany (0-02).

Subs Used: Liam Dillon, Mattie Cowley, Bradley Kirwan

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