Eurotech JFL Rd 11 Drumhowan 1-13 Blackhill 2-9
Drumhowan finished off their league campaign with a win on Sunday 24th July in Páirc Mhic Eoin and in the process Blackhill suffered their first defeat of 2016.
Drumhowan opened the scoring with a well taken point by Kevin Mooney and were dominating the opening minutes of the game but Blackhill scored a goal with their first attack up the field. Drumhowan still controlled the game but were off target quite a lot and it took veteran Colm Lambe to steady the ship scoring 5 of Drumhowan’s first half points with the other coming from Ciaran Duffy to leave the half time score Drumhowan 0-7 Blackhill 1-2
Blackhill opened the second half scoring but that point was cancelled out by a Darren Duffy point.Blackhill then got back into the game to leave the score level at 1-5 to 0-8. Kevin Mooney put Drumhowan out in front again but Blackhill got more into the game and with 10 minutes left led by a point. After a stoppage in play Colm Lambe floated the ball into square from a line ball and Ciarán Duffy came running in to punch the ball into the roof of the net. In the four minutes that followed Drumhowan went 5 points ahead with 2 points from sub Michael Atkinson and Kieran Mooney chipping in with his first. At that stage it should have game over but a mistake in the defence led Blackhill in for a goal and another point left the bare minimum in it with a minute left in normal time. Despite some mistakes and nearly 4 minutes of injury time Drumhowan held out for the victory with the full time score reading Drumhowan 1-13 Blackhill 2-9
The two teams will meet again in 2 weeks in the championship. However the victory wasn’t good enough with other results not going their way and Drumhowan finished in 7th place in the league and as a result will play in the junior shield in the 2nd half of the league with the first game in that competition not until after the championship as they receive a bye in the first round. The first game will be at home to Aghabog on the 21st of August.
Team and Scorers :
Enda Duffy, Patrick Mulligan(c), Liam Mc Guirk, Niall Mooney, Owen Quinn 0-1, Darren Duffy 0-1, Dermot Mooney, David Millar, Kieran Mc Elroy, Mark Mc Cabe, Ciarán Duffy 1-1, Kieran Mooney 0-1, Colm Lambe 0-5 (2f) Aidan Duffy, Kevin Mooney 0-2
Subs used 35 mins Michael Atkinson 0-2 for Kieran Mc Elroy (BC),
53mins Ciarán Deery for Aidan Duffy, 59 mins Blood Sub Aidan Duffy for Ciarán Deery
Maguire International MFC – On Tuesday the 19th of the July the minors lost out narrowly away to near neighbours Aughnamullen on a full time scoreline St. Patrick’s 2-14 Aughnamullen 2-18. In the Division 1 shield on Tuesday the 26th of July they took on Scotstown in Ballybay and the game ended in a draw St. Patrick’s 1-9 Scotstown 0-12. Their final game in the shield is against the Harps in Ballybay on Tuesday 16th August.
Gerry’s Prepared Veg U16 Division 1 – St. Patrick’s took on the undefeated team of the year- Aughnamullen in the championship semi final last Thursday 28th of July. Despite putting up a strong performance they lost 4-15 to 5-7. In the division 1 league shield they narrowly lost out to Inniskeen on Thursday 21st July on a full time scoreline of St. Patrick’s 2-15 Inniskeen 3-13. This Thursday the 4th of August (tonight) Truagh are the visitors to Páirc Mhic Eoin with a throw in time of 7.30pm
Gerry’s Prepared Veg U14 Division 3 – The U14s were at home to Patrick Emmett last Saturday 30th of July in the penultimate league match. The match finished in a draw at 5-9 a piece. The final league game will be against Aughnamullen on the 13th of August.
