Avenue Youths advance to next round

Avenue United 2   Tralee Dynamos 0

Heavy overnight rain on Saturday night played havoc with the Clare Soccer schedule last weekend with a lot of games cancelled due to pitch conditions.

 

However, the big game of the day did go ahead on Sunday when Avenue Utd’s youths booked their place in the next round of the Munster Youths Cup with a well-merited 2-0 win over Kerry League outfit, Tralee Dynamos at the Lees Road.

Gary Roche gave the Ennis side the lead just before the break and they sealed victory with a Ronan O’Donnell goal shortly before the final whistle. Avenue will not travel to play Killarney Celtic in the next round.

Avenue United: Shane O’Connell; Darren Costelloe, Ross McCarthy, Keylan O’Loughlin, Paddy O’Malley; David Brassil, Nicky Twumasai, Maccon Byrne, Daryl McNamara; Ross McCarthy, Mikey Shannon.
Subs: Ronan O’Donnell for Shannon.

Avenue United 4   Hermitage 1

Avenue United collected the points in this premier league tie when they proved too strong for their Ennis neighbours, Hermitage.

Goals from Mikey Mahoney and David Herlihy gave them the lead before the ’Tage pulled one back through Ritchie O’Grady. However, a David Smith strike saw Avenue restore their two-goal advantage before half time. Scott Hennessy scored Avenue’s fourth in the second half.

David O’Grady has rejoined Avenue from Pile Rovers this season and he came into the action during Sunday’s game.

Avenue United A: Liam Deasy; Simon Cuddy, Colin Smith; Alex Zmusko, Mattie Nugent; David Herlihy, David Smith, Alan Roche, David McCarthy; Mikey Mahoney, Scott Hennessy.
Subs: Dean D’Auria for C Smith; David O’Grady for McCarthy.
Hermitage A: David Phillips; Eoghan Ryan, Ritchie Fitzgerald, Rhys Phillips Tola Crowe; Ger Dullaghan, Paul Dullaghan. Liam Meaney, Shane Talty, Ritchie O’Grady, Adrian Power.
Subs: Boddy Dunne for Talty; Matthew Kearney for Ryan.

Burren United 1   Rock Rovers 2

Rock Rovers travelled to Lisdoonvarna and accounted for the home side Burren United in this Premier League tie.

Adrian McDonagh gave the Ennis side the lead from a free but the home side quickly fought back and Adrian Linnane levelled.

The winners had an Adrian McDonagh goal disallowed just before half time for an offside infringement. The winning goal came from former Lifford player Joe Lynch who headed to the net in the second half.

Burren Utd: Eamonn O’Brien; Eric Murrihy John McDonagh, Barry O’Gerady Gavin O’Loughlin; Adrian Linnane, Pat Connole, Chris Mozeck, Darragh Pender, Pat Darcy, Marine Gihat.
Sub: Murty Keating for McDonagh.
Ennis Town Rock: Sean Kennedy; Michael Dinan, Ronan Judge, Ethan Considine, Joe Lynch, AdrianWalsh, Daryl Eade, Joe Collins, Ritchie Neylon, David Reidy, Adrian McDonagh.
Subs: Noel Frawley for Neylon; Gary Collins for McDonagh.

Only one Munster Junior Cup tie went ahead and it resulted in a fine win for Moher Celtic who beat Rhine Rovers 4-1.

In the First Division there were victories for Corofin Harps and Bridge Celtic. Coole FC were the only side in the Second Division to pick up maximum points in their tussle with Hermitage B winning 1-0 while the other game in this section saw Sporting Ennistymon and visitiors Ruan Utd share the spoils in a 1-1 draw.

Just three games survived in the Third Division and Ennis Town Rocks second string were the big scorers of the day finding the ’Tage C net five times while Rineanna Rovers and Treaty Celtic had to be happy with a point a piece in their 1-1 draw. Lifford B and West Clare also had to settlle for a share of the spoils drawing 2-2 at Cassidy Park.