Seneschalstown 2-10 St. Colmcille’s 2-12

Seneschalstown somehow managed to come up short in this Tommy Dowd Oil Football League Division 6 Round 2 encounter against St. Colmcille’s played in Fr. Tully Park on Friday night.

Leading by 2-08 to 0-09 with twelve minutes remaining, Seneschalstown conceded two goals in sixty seconds and lost all the second half momentum they had as the visitors finished the stronger of the two sides.

The first quarter was a bit of a slow burner with the sides sharing four points. Johnny Gilsenan opened Seneschalstown’s account from a free before Dylan Keating added the second from play.

The sides swapped scores again either side of the twenty minute mark with Gilsenan again converting a free before the ‘Cilles reeled off four points in a row to move 0-07 to 0-03 clear approaching half time. In first-half injury time Seán Commons kicked his first of the evening to leave the home side three behind at the break.

Commons opened the scoring for the second half less than a minute in but St. Colmcille’s answered at the other end shortly after.

Seneschalstown pulled themselves back on level terms on 38 minutes when Ryan Finnegan finished off a good move with a powerful finish low to the net and despite, the Cilles retaking the lead Seneschalstown looked like they were beginning to get on top as Commons kicked a two point effort from play to move them ahead.

Things got even better for Seneschalstown just over a minute later when a ball broke kindly for Neill Darby around the edge of the large square and the wing forward pulled on the loose ball and finished superbly to the bottom left hand corner. From the kickout Seneschalstown worked another attacking move and Brian Maguire popped over the increase the lead to five points and Seneschalstown looked to be in a strong position.

However, the big turning point came straight after as St. Colmcille’s got in for two goals in sixty seconds to move a point ahead and rock Seneschalstown back on their heels.

The home side did recover as substitute Ross Mullen and full back Jack McDonnell hit points to edge them back in front but it was only brief respite as St. Colmcille’s got the last three points to win by two at the end of an all action second half.

Seneschalstown: David Gordon, Mark Fox, Jack McDonnell (0-01), Cormac Carolan, Liam Maguire, Aran Carey, Ryan O’Dowd, Ryan Finnegan (1-00), Teean Cummins, Neil Darby (1-00), Dylan Keating (0-01), Joe Norris, Alex Finnegan, Johnny Gilsenan (0-02, 2fs), Seán Commons (0-04, 1tp).

Subs: Brian Maguire (0-01), Ross Mullen (0-01), David Fox, Niall Groome, Shane Mulvany, James Meade

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