U16s capture Monalty  Cup

Mallon Foods U16 Division 1 Shield  Final 

St. Patrick’s  2-13 Magheracloone 2-8

Last Friday 25th August  the U16s took on Magheracloone in the the Division 1 Shield Final in Emerald Park , Blackhill.  St. Patrick’s opened brightly with a goal and a point in the first three minutes the goal coming from Darragh Sherry, More was to come with frees from Julius Sniauksta and a point from Patrick Quinn  to leave 7 in it after the quarter hour mark. However Magheracloone fought back   with 3 points in a row  but Aodhán Brennan left some breathing space in it  with a well taken goal after 24 minutes which proved to be the final score of the half. The half time score read St. Patrick’s  2-6 Magheracloone 0-5.
Magheracloone started  the 2nd half with a crucial goal  from Kyle Mackey but Julius Sniauksta  and Daragh  Mc Elearney responded with 2 points.  2 Jack Doogan frees cancelled them out but Pat’s responded once again to leave a goal and three in it with a quarter left.  Jack Mc Nulty scored a 2nd goal for Magheracloone to leave only three in it  but that was as good as it got as Joseph Duffy closed the scoring with 2 pointd  to leave the full time score   St. Patrick’s 2-13 Magheracloone 2-8.
 
Team and Scorers: Jaden Lees. Thomas Keenan, Aogan Smyth, Gerard Quinn, Ruairí Duffy, Daragh Mc Elearney 0-1, Daniel Montgomery, Patrick Quinn (JC) 0-1, Ciarán Mc Kearney (JC), Shane Caraher, Julius Sniauksta 0-6(2f), Joseph Duffy 0-2, Aodhan Brennan 1-2 (1f), Darragh Sherry 1-1, Cormac Duffy Subs James Mc Adam for Shane Caraher, Lee Treanor for Joseph Duffy, Mark Tomany.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the team this year especially the managers Martin Mc Elearney and Kevin Smyth.
By noelduffy Tue 29th Aug