Another win for league leaders

Division 1B

O’Callaghan’s Mills 2-17   Scariff 1-9

O’CALLAGHAN’S Mills continued their impressive start to the season when extending their unbeaten run with a comfortable win over Scariff in Division 1B at Hamilton Memorial Park in Kilkishen on Saturday afternoon.

An impressive start that saw them take an eight-point lead, 1-5 to 0-0, after seven minutes set up this latest victory. The second quarter was more evenly contested, suggesting Scariff would make matters difficult for the winners in the second half.

Having played with the aid of the breeze in the first half, they were nine points clear at half-time,
1-11 to 0-5. Inter-county man Conor ‘Rocky’ Cooney contributed 1-3 of that tally.

Scariff made a bright start to the second half, outscoring their opponents 0-4 to 0-1 in the opening 10 minutes. However, they failed to maintain this and only managed one further score, a goal from Ross Horan after a Conor McNamara 20m free had been parried, three minutes from the end.

In between, the winners hit 1-2, the goal coming from Jonathon Lyons with six minutes remaining.
The winners closed out the game with points from Aidan O’Gorman, Conor Cooney and Clare captain, Pat Donnellan.

Adrian Donovan, Pat Donnellan and Conor ‘Rocky’ Cooney were always prominent for the winners. Michael Scanlan stood out for Scariff, for whom Pádraic Brody, Darragh Kelly and Alphie Rodgers also did well.

O’Callaghan’s Mills: John Cooney; Ger Frost, Adrian Donovan, Gerry Cooney; Kevin O’Callaghan, Pat Donnellan (0-1), Niall Donovan; Bryan Donnellan (0-3), Eoin McInerney; Adrian Flaherty (0-3), Conor Cooney (Ermhill, 0-2), Jonathon Lyons (1-1); James McMahon (0-1), Conor ‘Rocky’ Cooney (1-4), Colin Crehan (0-1).
Subs: Aidan O’Gorman (0-1) for Crehan, Aidan Fawl for McInerney and Sean O’Gorman for Frost.
Scariff: Shane Mulvihill; Pádraic Brody, Shane McMahon, Darragh Kelly; Michael O’Brien, Cathal Nash, Matthew Horan; Michael Scanlan (0-2), Alphie Rodgers (0-5, 4f); Barry Nash, Shane Corry, Ross Horan (1-1); Austin Madden, Conor McNamara (0-1), John Scanlan.
Subs: Alan Corbett for O’Brien and Paul O’Sullivan for Corry.
Referee: Jack Chaplin, Cratloe.

 

Tubber 1-15   Kilmaley 1-13

SEVEN points down at the halfway point, Tubber staged a strong fightback in the second half at Kilmaley on Saturday to record a two-point win and maintain their unbeaten run in the campaign.

The home side played with the aid of the breeze in the first half when the crucial score was their goal, which came with four minutes remaining to the break. Conor Cleary’s lineball found Michael O’Neill, who was fouled. Diarmuid McMahon’s penalty was saved but referee Kevin Walsh ordered the free to be re-taken. This time McMahon drilled the ball to the corner of the net, to help his side to a 1-8 to 0-4 half-time lead.

The winners were still four points clear at the three-quarter stage when the score was 1-l1 to 0-10. Tubber goalie Ronan Taffee came up field and converted a 20m free and Mark Earley followed with the equalising point. Substitute Conor Neylon put Kilmaley back into the lead but Patrick O’Connor levelled, before Mark Earley and David O’Donoghue added points to give the visitors the victory.

Tubber: Ronan Taaffe (1-1); Paul Fogarty, Ger Brohan, Francis O’Grady; Fergal McCormack, Conor Earley, Mark Earley (0-2); Patrick O’Connor (0-1), Clive Earley; David O’Donoghue (0-1), Eamonn Taaffe (0-1), Justin McMahon; Blaine Earley (0-8), Shane O’Connor, Dara O’Connor (0-1).
Subs: Lorcan O’Grady for S O’Connor and Tommy Lee for D O’Connor.
Kilmaley: Kieran Dillon; Martin O’Connor, Alan Markham, Sean Talty; Colin McGuane, Daire Keane (0-1), Noel Casey; Kenneth Kennedy (0-2), Eoin Enright; Michael O’Neill (0-2), Brian McMahon (0-1), Conor Cleary (0-2); Pádraig Talty (0-1), Diarmuid McMahon (1-2), Niall McGuane (0-1).
Subs: Conor Neylon (0-1) for N McGuane and Eamonn Bracken for B McMahon.

Ruan 1-19   Whitegate 1-19

GOALKEEPER Andrew Fahy scored 1-7 for Whitegate as they staged a strong rally in the final 10 minutes to secure a share of the spoils with Ruan at the latter’s venue on Saturday evening.

Ruan played with the aid of the breeze in the first half and led by eight points at half-time, 1-11 to 0-6, the goal coming from Aidan Lynch.

They continued to hold the upperhand in the third quarter but when Whitegate switched All-Star Brendan Bugler from defence to the forward line, the East Clare side got the upperhand.

Bugler regularly won possession from goalkeeper Andrew Fahy’s huge puckouts and this led to the vital scores.

Six minutes from time, goalkeeper Fahy drilled a 25m free to the Ruan net to cut the deficit to three. They piled on the pressure and took the lead as the game entered injury time. Ruan fought back and Michael Vaughan hit the equaliser three minutes into injury time.

Whitegate: Andrew Fahy (1-7); Colin Bleach, John Bugler, Trevor Kelly; Paul O’Rourke, Brendan Bugler (0-1), Christy Jones; Patrick Minogue, Ian Fahy; Niall Hayes (0-6), Eric Minogue (0-1), Ger Muggivan; Paddy Burke (0-2), Tommy Madden, Michael O’Brien (0-2).
Subs: George Waterstone for Muggivan and Gary McClearn for E Minogue.
Ruan: Pakie Roughan; Gary Bell, Niall O’Connor, Leon Quirke; Eoin Hanrahan, Jonathon Clohessy, Damian McDonnell; Killian Ryan (0-1), Tadhg Hanrahan; Shane Ryan (0-1), Michael Vaughan (0-6), Brendan Lyons; Patrick Keegan, Aidan Lynch (1-11), John Punch.
Subs: Dara Roughan for S Ryan.
Referee: Michael Fitzgerald, Clondegad.

St Joseph’s 2-14   Ballyea 1-11

ST Joseph’s recorded their third win on the trot when they accounted for Ballyea at Clarecastle on Saturday evening.

The Doora-Barefield outfit led from the start and had two points on the board, courtesy of Alan O’Neill, inside the opening five minutes.

Ivor Whyte added two from play after good work by Gary Hassett and Mark Hanrahan, before O’Neill added two more to make it 0-6 to 0-0 after 10 minutes. Ballyea got on the scoreboard with two pointed frees by David Sheehan, which were separated by like scores from Leo Duggan and Whyte.

St Joseph’s lead was 0-9 to 0-4 after O’Neill pointed a further free and Ballyea added points from a Sheehan free and a Paddy O’Connell effort from play. Six minutes from the break, O’Neill’s powerful overhead strike found the Ballyea net and he went on to add two points to leave the half-time score at 1-11 to 0-5 in his side’s favour.

The second half was just two minutes old when Alan Duggan struck for his side’s second goal and this left Ballyea with a mountain to climb.

Ballyea added 1-3 to an O’Neill free, the Ballyea scores coming from Paddy and Gearóid O’Connell, Sheehan and a great goal by Brian Murphy.

Ballyea finished with 14 men after referee Rory McGann dismissed goalie Shane O’Neill.

St Joseph’s: Mikey Roseingrave; Kevin Meaney, Ken Kennedy, Brian Collins; Conor Lyons, Kevin Dilleen, Mark Hanrahan; Niall De Loughrey, Gary Hassett; Leo Duggan (0-1), Ivor Whyte (0-3), Donal O’Halloran; Rory O’Connor, Alan O’Neill (1-10), Alan Duggan (1-0).
Subs: Eamonn Clohessy for O’Halloran and Liam Clohessy for E Clohessy.
Ballyea: Shane O’Neill; Brian Carigg, Kevin Sheehan, Paul Flanagan; Joe Neylon, Niall Keane, Jack Browne (0-1); Gearóid O’Connell (0-2), Paddy O’Connell (0-1); Stan Lineen, Brian Murphy, Francie O’Reilly (0-5, 3f); Martin O’Leary (1-0), Francie Nealon (0-1), Frankie Griffin.
Subs: Cathal Doohan (0-1) for Nealon, James Murphy for Griffin and Aonghus Keane for O’Leary.

Tulla 4-11   Wolfe Tones 0-7

TULLA scored a comfortable win over Wolfe Tones on Saturday to maintain their strong challenge for honours.

An early goal from Andrew Quinn saw them take a 1-4 to 0-1 lead after six minutes.

Further goals from Aidan Lynch, Darragh Corry and Trevor Vaughan put them 15 points clear at the break, 4-7 to 0-3.

The loss of the experienced Brian O’Connell in the early minutes due to injury proved a big blow to the Shannon side’s hopes.

The second half was a low-scoring affair but Tulla retained the upperhand and emerged as deserving winners.

Tulla: Kieran Brennan; Eugene Cooney, Sean Torpey, Felix Hegarty; Damian Noonan, John Brennan, Paul Lynch; David McInerney, Darragh Corry; Philip Brennan, Donnacda McNamara, Trevor Vaughan; Cathal Dinan, Andrew Quinn, Aidan Lynch.
Subs: Cathal Bolton for K Brennan and Shane McNamara for Corry.
Wolfe Tones: Trevor O’Donnell; Sean Reidy, Brendan Hughes, Stephen Tuohy; Stephen McInerney, Bobby McPhillips, Rory Hayes; Brian O’Connell, Kevin McCafferty; Andrew Shanagher, Daithí O’Connell, John Guilfoyle; Gary Leahy, Johnnie Bridges, Jamie Walker.
Subs: Greg Delahunt for B O’Connell and Martin O’Connell for Shanagher.