Lough Crew Gaels… 1-16
Blackwater… 0-08
Lough Crew Gaels, made up of players from the Ballinlough, Moylagh, Oldcastle and St Brigid’s clubs, took full advantage of their game taking place in the home of the first named when running out resounding winners of this Brady’s Skoda Regional Football Championship encounter on wet and windy Tuesday night.
The eventual winners were out of the starting gates much the quicker with Sean Reilly – of whom this writer is a major fan – Harry Ryan and Joe Blake all on the mark before Carnaross forward Paddy McDermott got Blackwater off and running.
It was then a case of being like the old tale about the buses for the latter as Darragh O’Reilly fisted over. However, Lough Crew asserted again towards the end of the half as Harry Ryan and CJ Healy sending over a brace apiece.
Indeed, those who were trailing were probably fortunate not to be even further adrift because at least one of that flurry of points had ‘major’ written all over it but any such aspirations were thwarted by smart goalkeeping by Moynalty’s Johnny Lynch.
Kilmainham clubman Dylan Morgan flashed over a couple of frees just before half time but the men from the Lough still led by 0-08 to 0-04 at the break.
A position that was further embellished immediately after the restart when Oldcastle’s Healy engaged the trusty left boot to call the umpires to action once more.
Morgan (twice) traded scores with Healy and Blake, thus maintaining the gap of four between the sides halfway through. The impressive Healy then tagged on another rapidly after the restart. Michael Flood, Joe Blake and Oran Mulvany before substitute James Cooke drilled low to Lynch’s net to give Davy Nelson’s charges a resounding victory.
Loughcrew – Dylan Scully (St Brigid’s); Dylan Garrigan (Oldcastle), Darren Gibney (Moylagh 0-1), Shane Gibney (Moylagh); Darragh Caffrey (Ballinlough), Michael Flood (St Brigid’s 0-1), Lee Healy( Oldcastle 0-1); Sean Reilly (Moylagh 0-1), Oran Mulvaney (Oldcastle 0-1); Sean Geraghty (Ballinlough), Pearse Sheridan (Oldcastle), Harry Ryan (0-3 two frees); CJ Healy (0-4 three frees), Joe Blake (0-4 one free), David Gibney (St Brigid’s). Subs – Cormac Brown (St Brigid’s) for Ryan 18mins, Ben Gray (Oldcastle) for David Gibney 46m, James Cooke (Oldcastle 1-0) for Caffrey 53m, Sean Guirke (Moylagh) for L Healy 55m, Matthew Corrigan for Dylan Scully 57m.
Blackwater – Johnny Lynch (Moynalty); Ronan Lynch (Moynalty), Ciaran O’Reilly (St Michael’s), Harry Dunne (St Michael’s); James McGovern (Drumbaragh), James Cassidy (Moynalty), Luke Fagan (Drumbaragh); Brian O’Reilly (St Michael’s), Liam Ward (Drumbaragh); Freddie Newman (Kilmainham), Paddy McDermott (Carnaross), Conor Lynch (Drumbaragh); Dylan Morgan (Kilmainham), Joey Gilsenan (Moynalty), Damien Murphy (St Michael’s). Subs – Dean Peppard (Kilmainham), Declan Mullen (Kilmainham), Darragh O’Reilly (Carnaross), Ger Morgan (Kilmainham), Jack Roche (Carnaross), Padraig O’Connor (Moynalty), Luke Gillic (Carnaross), Kian Lynch (Moynalty), Anthony Nevin (Moynalty), Conor Gilsenan (St Michael’s), Stephen Meegan (Drumbaragh), Hughie Corcoran (Drumbaragh).
Referee – Paddy Clarke.
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