Kildalkey 1-15 Blackhall Gaels 2-13

Kildalkey kicked off their year in the Division 2HL against Blackhall Gaels and just came up short by 1 point in wet and bitterly cold conditions in Batterstown.

Kildalkey started well and led at halftime by 4 points 1-8 to 0-7, the goal coming from Conor Fitzgerald while Ben Rickard Mattie Cully Gary Kelly and Fitzgerald raised white flags in a half where scores were hard to come by .

They led at the 3/4 stage by 1-13 to 1-9 with further scores from Kelly Rickard and Cully (2 frees a brilliant sideline cut )and Arron Potterton and looked to be in a winning position but a late surge from the home side yielded the vital scores to win the game by 1-15 to 2-13 .

Kildalkey started a number of youngsters and the acquitted themselves well and didn’t look out of place playing against the older lads and just came up short by the minimum.

Kildalkey team and scorers: D Harmon, C McNally, T Bird, C McGourty, M Rickard, J Kavanagh, D Ryan, A Potterton (0-1), M Hand, B Rickard (0-3), G Kelly (0-3), C Fitzgerald (1-1). J Potterton, K Mckeon, A O Brien

Subs: M Cully (0-7)(5F and 1sl) for J Kavanagh, E Geoghegan for A O Brien, A O Brien for J Potterton 

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