Goals seal first Champion Cup win for Ruan

 

Ruan  3-14

St Joseph’s  1-13

RUAN had their first win of the Clare Champion Cup Division 1B campaign when they accounted for St Joseph’s at Ruan on Monday.

Chasing their fourth successive win, St Joseph’s fielded five of the U-21 side that had lost the previous evening’s semi-final replay to Clarecastle and certainly the exertions of two games reduced their impact.
Playing against the stiff breeze, St Joseph’s had a great start when Rory O’Connor finished to the net after hard work by the Duggans, Leo and Alan. Ruan responded with 0-3 from play by Caimin Howard, Jonathan Clohessy and full-forward Aidan Lynch. Donal O’Halloran and Lynch exchanged points and St Joseph’s led  after 15 minutes by 1-5 to 0-4 thanks to points from Alan Duggan and 0-3 from Ivor Whyte. St Joseph’s were struggling at midfield and Ruan were level when Brendan Lyons scored a fine goal and followed by a point from Killian Ryan. Whyte added 0-2 matched by points from Lynch and Tadgh Hanrahan to leave it 1-7 each after 23 minutes. Michael Vaughan had Ruan in front with a point before Lynch rounded Ken Kennedy to put a well-struck shot past Paul Madden. A Whyte point made the half-time score Ruan 2-8 to St Joseph’s 1-8.
Lynch opened the second half with two excellent points but Whyte and Mark Hallinan responded with similar scores. The St Joseph’s effort was seriously damaged when Kevin Dilleen and Ken Kennedy were forced to retire and were replaced by Sean Flynn and Conor Lyons.
Lynch had added another goal to put Ruan in a strong position. Whyte and Punch exchanged points to leave it 3-11 t0 1-11 at the three-quarter stage.
Ruan added further points from Caimin Howard, Punch and Killian Ryan to 0-2 from Whyte.

Ruan: Pakie Roughan; Gary Bell, Niall O’Connor, Leon Quirke; Eoin Hanrahan, Jonathon Clohessy, Damian McDonnell; Killian Ryan, Tadhg Hanrahan; John Punch, Michael Vaughan, Brendan Lyons; Caimin Howard, Aidan Lynch, Patrick Keegan.
Sub: Damian Brohan for Lynch (inj).
St Joseph’s: Paul Madden, Cathal O’Sullivan, Ken Kennedy, Kevin Meaney, Eamonn Clohessy, Kevin Dilleen, Mark Hanrahan, Mark Hallinan, Jarlath Colleran, Gary Hassett, Ivor Whyte, Donal O’Halloran, Rory O’Connor, Leo Duggan, Alan Duggan.
Subs: Conor Lyons for Ken Kennedy, Sean Flynn for Kevin Dilleen and Mikey Rosengrave for Donal O’Halloran.

O’Callaghan’s Mills  1-19

Wolfe Tones  1-8

O’CALLAGHAN’S Mills remain the only team in the Clare Champion Cup race with a 100% record following this comfortable win over Wolfe Tones at Shannon on Monday.
On a day when all midfielders and forwards got on the scoresheet, the winners finished strongly to take the spoils.
It was 0-10 to 1-3 for the visitors at the interval with the goal coming from Gary Leahy. They continued to be closely matched in the third quarter but from here on  the Mills pulled away and were deserving winners when the final whistle sounded.
Full-forward Conor Cooney (Ermhill) was their goalscorer, while Adrian Flaherty hit eight points.

O’Callaghan’s Mills: John Cooney; Ger Frost, Diarmuid Hehir, Gerry Cooney; Sean O’Gorman, Adrian Donovan, Kevin O’Callaghan; Bryan Donnellan, Niall Donovan; Adrian Flaherty, Aidan O’Gorman, Jonathon Lyons; James McMahon, Conor Cooney (Ermhill), Gary Neville.
Wolfe Tones: Trevor O’Donnell; Shane O’Sullivan, Jamie Roughan Stephen Tuohy; Declan McCarthy, Bobby McPhillips, Stephen McInerney; Daithi O’Connell, Kevin McCafferty; David Dunne, Gary Leahy, Andrew Shanagher; John Guilfoyle, Brendan Hughes, Barry Loughnane.
Subs: Rory Hayes for Dunne; Damian O’Toole for Shane O’Sullivan.

Kilmaley  2-16

Whitegate  2-6

KILMALEY scored a much-needed victory when they travelled to Whitegate for this league tie on Saturday.
The teams were evenly matched in the opening half at the end of which the visitors held a one-point advantage, 0-8 to 1-4. Whitegate’s goal came in the 19th minute from Patrick Minogue.
At the three-quarter stage, the sides were level with the score at 0-12 to 2-6, Whitegate’s second goal coming from Thomas Madden.
They didn’t score in the final quarter as Kilmaley took control, hitting 2-4 without reply, both goals coming from Michael O’Neill.

Kilmaley: Kieran Dillon; Martin O’Connor, Alan Markham, Sean Talty; Eoin Enright, Daire Keane, Noel Casey; Colin McGuane, Kenneth Kennedy; Michael O’Neill, Diarmuid McMahon, Niall McGuane; Padraig Talty, Conor Nealon, Eoin O’Malley.
Whitegate: Andrew Fahy; Colin Bleach, John Bugler, Paul O’Rourke; Colin Burke, Jason Malone, Christy Jones; Michael Dooley, Paddy Burke; Ian Fahy, Eric Minogue, Niall Hayes; Patrick Minogue, Thomas Madden, Michael O’Brien.
Subs: George Waterstone for P Burke; Ger Muggivan for E Minogue; Conor McDermott for I Fahy.

Scariff  2-12

Ballyea  1-12

SCARIFF bounced back to winning ways having lost to O’Callaghan’s Mills a week earlier when they overcame Ballyea in this Division 1B game on Monday.
The visitors led for most of the first half but a Niall Deasy goal from a penalty just before the break had Ballyea leading by 1-7 to 0-8 at the halfway mark.
A goal from a Conor McNamara  penalty in the early minutes of the second half put the East Clare side back in the lead. Midway through the second half, there was only a point between the sides with the visitors ahead but poor shooting by the home side in the final quarter cost them dearly. Mark Mulvihill scored Scariff’s second goal to seal victory.

Scariff: Shane Mulvihill; Padraic Brody, Darragh Kelly, Shane McMahon; Matthew Horan, Cathal Nash, Michael Scanlan; Diarmuid Nash, Alphie Rodgers; Conor McNamara, Barry Nash, John Scanlan; Mark Mulvihill, Ross Horan, Austin Madden.
Sub: Paul O’Sullivan for J Scanlan.
Ballyea: Shane Harkin, Brian Carrig, Kevin Sheehan, Brian Murphy, Jack Browne, Niall Keane, David Sheehan; Francie O’Reilly, Stan Lineen, Niall Deasy, James Murphy, Martin O’Leary, Barry Coffey, Aonghas Keane, Francie Neylon.
Subs: Declan Keane for Kevin Sheehan, Paddy O’Connell for Barry Coffey, Frankie Griffin for Brian Carrig (inj).