Avenue complete youths double

Bridge United 0   Avenue United 0
(Avenue won 4-2 on penalties)

Avenue United completed the youths double when they were crowned O’Gorman Cup champions on Saturday.
Less than a week after the same sides clashed in a league decider that Avenue won easily, there were fears that the Ennis outfit might have another runaway success.
This time, however, it was a much closer contest which defences dominated, Avenue had to rely on a penalty shoot out to capture the title.
They had marginally the better of the opening half but failed to break the deadlock while Bridge had the better of the second half exchanges.
Both goalkeepers, Liam Deasy for the winners and John Mulready, made good saves during the course of play
In the penalty shoot out, Avenue were first up and Paddy O’Malley gave them the lead before Darragh Fitzgerald’s effort was superbly saved by Liam Deasy leaving the winners in a strong position. The advantage was quickly cancelled when Dylan Casey’s effort was saved by John Mulready before Kieran Quinlan scored for the Bridge to level the tie at one penalty each.
Eoin Fitzgerald for Avenye and Eoin Collins for the Bridge were both on target before Sean Corry gave Avenue the lead when he scored their fourth. Kieran Lake missed the opportunity to keep the sides level when he fired his shot over the bar leaving Alan Roche with the chance to seal victory for the winners which he duly did.
After the game Clare soccer league chairman, Paul Tuohy presented the Michael O’Gorman Cup to Avenue’s Alan Roche.

Avenue United: Liam Deasy; Pa Sherlock, Dean D’Auria, Dylan Casey, Colin Smith, Sean Corry, Mark Roche, Alan Roche, Eoin O’Loughlin, Eoin Fitzgerald, Dara Sexton
Subs: Paddy O’Malley for Sherlock (half-time) Brian Corry for Sexton; Josh Lynch for O’Loughlin.
Bridge United: John Mulready; Eoin Collins, Eamonn O’Donoghue, Darren Mulready Gavin White, Darren Murphy, Darragh Fitzgerald, Conor Deasy, Ryan Hodge, Kieran Quinlan, Kieran Lake.