Category: Hurling

The under 21 team lost the county semi final today by 3-09 to 1-16 against Crossabeg Ballymurn. In fairness we were our hurled in most areas of the field and we have only three fortunate goals to thank for keeping the game so close. The score at half time was 2-03 to 0-10 and this showed that Ballymurn were much better at taking their scores than we were. So this match brought to an end a good run for the team had already won the district final last week. However tiredness must surely have played a role in this result as all of our players had to play yesterday for either the juniors or the intermediates, wheras none of the opposition had this problem.

Team: 1. Morgan Gahan 2. Liam Gahan 3. Aidan Gahan 4. Ray O Brien 5. Dean Fenlon 6. Niall O Reilly 7. Paul Gahan 8. Mark Walsh 9. Mick Sweeney 10. Padraic Flynn 11. Matthew Dunne 12. Laurence Murphy 13. Peter Mernagh 14. Patrick Walsh 15. James Sweeney Sub: Bryan Dwyer for Mick Sweeney

Scores: Peter Mernagh 2-04 (2-03 frees), Niall O Reilly 0-03 frees, Patrick Walsh 1-00, Padraic Flynn 0-02

The under 21 team played in the district final tonight against Rathnure in St Patrick Park and won on a scoreline of 2-12 to 2-09. Conditions made it a poor game of hurling with both sets of forwards finding it difficult to score. We traded points for the whole of the first half, but Rathnure missed many chances and we went in at half time the suprise leaders by 0-05 to 0-04. The second half produced a more intense battle, which we were on top in for most of the second half, but it still took some great saves from Morgan Gahan to keep our lead . At one stage, thanks to two goals from James Sweeney, we were nine points ahead. Despite conceding two goals in injury time we managed to win the game by three points and have now qualified for the county semi final. It was certainly not our best performance and improvements will still have to be made for the next day.

Team: 1. Morgan Gahan 2. Ray O Brien 3. Aidan Gahan 4. Liam Gahan 5. Dean Fenlon 6. Niall O Reilly 7. Paul Gahan 8. Padraic Flynn 9. Mick Sweeney 10. Laurence Murphy 11. Matthew Dunne 12. Mark Walsh 13. Peter Mernagh 14. Bryan Dwyer 15. James Sweeney Sub: Patrick Walsh for Bryan Dwyer, also Sean McCabe, Tomas O Leary, Diarmaid Breen, Brian Bolger, James Gahan and Sean Murphy.

Scores: Peter Mernagh 0-07 (0-06 frees), James Sweeney (2-00), Matthew Dunne (0-02), Mark Walsh (0-02), Laurence Murphy (0-01)

The intermediate team played ballygarret tonight in a practice match and lost by 2-21 to 4-13. To be fair ballygarret out hurled us for the whole game and it was really the goals we got which made the game look close.

Team: Sean Murphy, sean doran, paddy breen, paul gahan, niall o reilly, tommy breen, dean fenlon, mick sweeney, bertie gahan, mark walsh, matthew dunne, niall o loughlin, peter mernagh, colm  o loughlin, marty kelly. Subs used: denis walsh, liam gahan (ballyorley), james sweeney, conall nolan, morgan gahan

The under 21 hurlers beat bunclody tonight by 0-24 to 1-09. Playing with the wind in the first half we started well getting the first couple of scores but bunclody responded with a goal and a point to lead by 1-01 to 0-03. We traded points, with Peter Mernagh, Mark Walsh and Laurence Murphy all raising the white flag and despite some missed frees we got the last few scores of the half to lead by 0-12 to 1-06 at half time. Playing against the wind in the second half we knew we had to improve in order to win the game. We managed to outscore bunclody against the wind by 0-12 to 0-3 in the second half with a very good performance. Despite scoring 24 points we never really had a decent shot at goal, and maybe this was down to the indiscipline of the Bunclody backs who fouled before we had a chance to work the ball in for goals, but having said that some of the frees were soft enough. We are now into the district final which will be played sometime over the next two weeks.

Team: 1. Sean Murphy 2. Ray O Brien 3. Aidan Gahan 4. Sean McCabe 5. Dean Fenlon 6. Niall O Reilly 7. Paul Gahan 8. Mick Sweeney 9. Liam Gahan 10. Mark Walsh 11. Matthew Dunne 12. Laurence Murphy 13. Peter Mernagh 14. Bryan Dwyer 15. James Sweeney Subs: Padraig Flynn for Sean McCabe, James Gahan for Bryan Dwyer, Patrick Walsh for Laurence Murphy, Morgan Gahan for Ray O Brien, Tomas O Leary for Liam Gahan

Scores: Peter Mernagh 0-14 (0-10 frees), Laurence Murphy 0-02, Matthew Dunne 0-02, Dean Fenlon 0-01, Sean Murphy 0-01, James Gahan 0-01, James Sweeney 0-01, Mick Sweeney 0-01, Mark Walsh 0-01

The under 21 hurlers comfortably beat the Shamrocks tonight by 2-19 to 0-04. Playing with the wind in the first half we started well getting the first few scores thanks to some good play by James Sweeney and Bryan Dwyer. However we let the Shamrocks close the gap by conceding some silly frees, but in fairness it never really looked like this was going to be a close game with the score at half time being 0-12 to 0-03. The second half started well and two quick goals from Peter Mernagh helped to put the game far past the Shamrocks reach. We tagged on some late scores from frees along with some well taken points feom Liam Gahan and Larry Murphy to finish the game comfortable winners.

Team was:

1. Sean Murphy 2. Ray O’Brien 3. Aidan Gahan 4. Seán McCabe 5. Dean Fenlon 6. Niall O’Reilly 7. Paul Gahan 8. Liam Gahan 9. Mick Sweeney 10. Laurence Murphy 11. Matthew Dunne 12. James Gahan 13. James Sweeney 14. Bryan Dwyer 15. Peter Mernagh

Subs: Padraig Flynn for James Gahan, Morgan Gahan for Seán McCabe, Patrick Walsh for James Sweeney, Tomas O Leary for Dean Fenlon

Scores: Peter Mernagh 2-10 (0-08 frees), Laurence Murphy 0-03, Bryan Dwyer 0-02, James Sweeney 0-01, Matthew Dunne 0-01, Dean Fenlon 0-01, Liam Gahan 0-01

Firstly the junior match was abandoned shortly after half time, due to bad light. It was level at the time and condittions were dangerous so it was a sensible decision

On saturday the intermediate team drew with Buffer’s Alley 3-09 to 3-09, which puts us safely through to the quarter finals. Hurling with a wind advantage in the first half we took a 1-07 to 0-02 point lead at half time and looked good to win the game.Our scores came from Stephen Murphy (a goal and a point), marty kelly, bertie gahan and a brilliant point by Niall O Reilly. Two early goals at the start of the second half by Aidan Gahan and Peter Mernagh along with a trading of points saw us ahead at one stage by 3-08 to 0-06. Really we should have won the game easily but we went asleep and allowed the Alley back into the game and they took a one point lead going into the last minute of injury time. A point from Peter Mernagh with the last puc of the game secured the draw and our place in the knock out stages.

Team:

1. Sean Murphy 2. Liam Gahan, 3. Paddy Breen 4. Dean Fenlon 5. Niall O Reilly        16. Tommy Breen 7. Paul Gahan 8. Aidan Gahan 9. Bertie Gahan 10. Marty Kelly 11.Matthew Dunne 12. Niall O Loughlin 13. James Sweeney 14. Stephen Murphy 15. Peter Mernagh Sub: Conall Nolan for Bertie Gahan

Scores: Peter Mernagh 1-01, Stephen Murphy 1-01, Aidan Gahan 1-00, Niall O Loughlin 0-03 frees, Marty Kelly 0-02, Niall O Reilly 0-01, Bertie Gahan 0-01

The intermediate team had two league matches this week. Firstly they played Marshalstown on Tuesday and won by 0-23 to 2-11. We played fairly well and were always comfortable. Team was: 1.Sean Murphy 2. Sean Doran 3. Liam Gahan 4. Paul Gahan 5. Shane Kehoe 6. Niall O Reilly 7. Liam Gahan 8. Mick Sweeney 9. Aidan Gahan (0-01) 10. Niall O Loughlin (0-14, 0-13 frees) 11.  David Breen 12. Damien Fenlon (0-01) 13. Peter Mernagh (0-01) 14. Stephen Murphy (0-02) 15. Matthew Dunne. Subs: John Breen (0-03) , Colm O Loughlin (0-01).

The second match was against Shamrocks and we lost by 3-13 to 0-06 with a terrible performance with very few positives to take from it.

Team was: 1. Morgan Gahan 2. Sean Doran 3. Chris Daly 4. Paul Gahan 5. Niall O Reilly (0-01 free) 6. Liam Gahan 7. Paddy Breen 8. Mick Sweeney 9.Aidan Gahan 10. Damien Fenlon 11. John Breen 12. Shane Kehoe 13. Peter Mernagh (0-04, 0-03 frees) 14. David Breen (0-01) 15. Matthew Dunne . Subs: Denis Walsh, Conal Nolan, Liam Gahan.