Ennistymon take victory in North Clare derby

Ennistymon 0-15   Corofin 1-9

Ennistymon scored a merited three-point win in this North Clare derby Division 2 hurling tie in Corofin last Saturday evening.

The home side were first to score, with a point in the second minute.Ennistymon responded swiftly with a like score from Cathal Malone and by the 10th minute, Ennistymon were three clear with a further two from Malone and one from Tadhg Malone. Corofin replied with two pointed frees before Ennistymon, with the wind to their backs, pointed seven glorious points from play, two from Michael McDonagh, four from Cathal Malone and one from Tommy Hogan, leaving the half-time score at 0-11 to 0-5 in favour of the winners.
Robbie McDonagh put his side seven clear five minutes into the second half before Declan Lee latched on to a breaking ball following a great save from Cathal McDonagh to give Corofin the all-important goal and put them back in contention. Corofin tacked on another point to put three between the sides. Cathal Malone responded to put Ennistymon four up again but Corofin replied with another two points to stay in contention. Ennistymon were not going to be denied a rare victory over their neighbours and Cathal Malone closed out the game with two well-taken points.

Ennistymon: Cathal McDonagh; Michael A Devitt, Kevin Scales, Danny Harvey; Aidan Slattery, Brian McDonagh, Liam O’Driscoll; Michael McDonagh, Sean O’Driscoll; Tommy Hogan, Cathal Malone, Caoimhin Fahy; Declan Sexton, Robbie McDonagh, Tadhg Malone.
Subs: Padraig Brennan for Sexton;  Martin Green for T Hogan.
Corofin: Patrick Burke; Keith O’Loughlin, Luke O’Loughlin, Brendan
Keane; Luke Conroy, Damian Ryan, Martin Tierney; Neil Killeen, John Keane; Gearóid Kelly, Eamonn Malone, Stephen Heagney; Declan Stack, Declan Lee, Killian Neylon.
Subs: Eamonn Dunne and Gary Tierney.

Ogonnelloe 3-7   Sixmilebridge 0-11

Ogonnelloe recorded their first win this season when they accounted for leaders Sixmilebridge on Sunday.
Three first-half goals from Patrick Barton, Danny Cunnane and Peter O’Brien laid the foundations for the win, as Ogonnelloe went to the break with an eight-point advantage, having played with the wind in the opening half.
Sixmilebridge piled on the pressure after the break but the Ogonnelloe defence held firm.

Ogonnelloe: Robert Dreelin; Eoghan Collins, Michael Costelloe, Colm Forde; John O’Brien, Peter O’Brien, Barry Kiely; Danny Cunnane, Sean Kikkers; Aaron Bradley, Rory Skelly, Thomas Condon; Patrick Mooney, Patrick Barton, Michael Mooney.
Sub: Joseph Mooney for Michael Mooney.
Sixmilebridge: Stephen Fleming; Kevin Phelan, Eoin Quinn, Cathal Walsh; Sean Stack, Tommy Morey, Jonathan Downes; Anthony Liddane, Christy Griffin; Errol Tuohy, Sam O’Sullivan, David O’Connor; Jayme Keogh, Stiofan Fitzpatrick, Thomas Liddy.
Subs: Cyril Crowe for Keogh; Eanna Burns for Phelan and Darragh O’Connor for Fitzpatrick.

Ruan 4-26   Killanena  0-6

Ruan had an easy win over an understrength Killanena side at the weekend and, as a result, have moved to the top of the league table.
Two goals each from Aidan Lynch and Eoin Hanrahan helped the winners run up an impressive tally.

Ruan: Pakie Roughan; Gary Bell, Niall O’Connor, Leon Quirke; Killian Ryan, Jonathon Clohessy, Dara Roughan; Michael Vaughan, Tadhg Hanrahan; John Punch, Colin Donoghue, Robbie O’Loughlin; Patrick Keegan, Aidan Lynch, Eoin Hanrahan.
Subs: Caimin Howard for Punch; Damian Brohan for Lynch; John Hurley for Ryan; Damian McDonnell for Donoghue and Sean Cullinan for Quirke.
Killanena: David Noone; Francis McNamara, Joe Clancy, Paul McArthur; Shane Moroney, Patrick Noone, Stephen McMahon; Alan McNamara, Todd Kelsey; TJ Woods, Fintan McNamara, Michael Noonan; Evan McNamara, Noel Sheedy, John O’Brien.

Crusheen  2-10   Scariff 0-12

Crusheen kept up their challenge for a place in the play-offs with this win over Scariff on Sunday. Patrick O’Grady scored their first goal and they sealed victory with a Dara O’Doherty goal from a free in the last minute of the game.

Crusheen: David McMahon; Tony McMahon, Conor Hayes, Donal Dillon; Briain Dillon, Shaun Dillon, Rory Halpin; Jason Greene, Alan Tuohy; Thomas Vaughan, Niall Fitzgibbon, Sean Weir; Colin Vaughan, Patrick O’Grady, Dara O’Doherty.
Sub: Philip O’Donnell.
Scariff: Shane Mulvihill; Michael O’Brien, Darragh Kelly, Shane Corry; Cathal Nash, Padraig Brody, Matthew Horan; Diarmuid Nash, Michael Scanlan; Conor McNamara, Ross Horan, Alphie Rodgers; Paul O’Sullivan, Michael Moroney, Austin Madden.
Subs: Barry Nash and Cathal Madden.