Nash notches up 2-9 for Scariff-Ogonnelloe

Scariff-Ogonnelloe 2-15
Tubber 1-10

SCARIFF-Ogonnelloe became the first team to get over the opening hurdle in this season’s U-21 Hurling C Championship when they accounted for Tubber in the C title race at O’Garney Park in Sixmilebridge on Friday night.

A brace of goals from corner-forward Barry Nash helped them to a six-point interval lead, when the score stood at 2-8 to 1-5.

Scariff man Nash was the game’s top scorer, hitting 2-9 on an evening when others to impress were John Scanlan, Cian Bradley and Peter English.
Evan O’Donoghue was Tubber’s goalscorer and he also added a brace of points, while the North Clare side’s remaining points came from Lorcan O’Grady and Ronan Taaffe. Tubber’s chances weren’t helped by the loss of Dara Monaghan, who broke a bone in his ankle during the first half.
Scariff-Ogonnelloe: Andrew O’Dwyer; Martin Cunningham, Cathal Madden; Jack Orme, Peter English, Alan Corbett; Daniel Cunnane, Rory Skelly; Cian Bradley, Jamie Cunnane, Sean Kikkers; John Scanlan, Barry Nash.
Subs: Aaron Bradley, Liam Bugler, Patrick O’Dwyer, Darren Nugent and Adrian O’Grady.
Tubber: Dylan Molloy; Simon Donoghue, Barry Monaghan; Francis McCormack, Paddy O’Connor, Darragh Monaghan; Lorcan O’Grady, Kevin Fawl; Evan Donoghue, Donal McMahon, Aidan Forde; Ronan Taaffe, Josh Monaghan.
Subs: Shane Monaghan for D Monaghan and Martin Howard for F McCormack.

Parteen 4-11
St Joseph’s 2-4

NOEL Bridgeman was the top scorer as Parteen overcame the challenge of St Joseph’s at Ogonnelloe on Sunday morning.
He scored all of his side’s goals and added a point as well in a tie that saw the winners lead at half-time on a score of 3-4 to 1-3, with Seamus Nugent getting St Joseph’s first-half goal.
Eoin Hanrahan had their second goal from a 20m free but, overall, Parteen were the stronger side and deserved their victory, which puts them through to a meeting with Whitegate in the semi-final.
Parteen: James Fox; Kevin McGleenan, Sean Beatty; Adam Ahern, Matthew McSweeney, Paul McDonald; Martin Moroney, Cian McCarthy; Stephan Flanagan, Eoghan Kelly, David Small; Noel Bridgeman, Gearóid Cox.
Subs: Niall Holland for Flanagan, Shane O’Mullane for Kelly and Gavin Higgins for Cox.
St Joseph’s: Kevin Moloney; Sean Mulqueen, Stephen Barron; Kevin Meaney, Eoin Hanrahan, Ciarán O’Halloran; Seamus Nugent, Conor O’Brien; Conor McInerney, Jason McNamara, Ross McCarthy; Barry Guilfoyle, Alan Woods.
Subs: Paul Hallinan for Moloney, Anthony Devitt for Woods and Diarmuid Barron for Mulqueen.

Meelick 1-11
Ballyea 0-9

MEELICK booked a quarter-final date with newcomers St Senan’s, Kilkee this Saturday when they accounted for Ballyea at Kilkishen last Sunday.
Oisín Hickey was the winners’ star player, hitting 1-6 of their tally on a day when they led 1-5 to 0-6 at the break.
Ballyea, fielding a second team at this level for the first time, missed a number of chances but the experience gained by what was almost all of their minor team is sure to stand to them as the season progresses.
Meelick: Roy Duffy; Joe McCarthy, Bobby Sherlock; Eoin Brewitt, Damian Moloney (0-2), James Glynn; Colin Ryan, Gary Callinan (0-2); Kieran McCarthy, Lee Ryan (0-1), Keith Moran; Oisín Hickey (1-6), Daniel Moloney.
Sub: Niall Mullen for McCarthy and Daniel Rice for Daniel Moloney.
Ballyea: Conor Harkin; Niall Lynch, Ryan Power; Paul Meaney, Lee Brady (0-1), David Egan; David Brassil, Aaron Nugent (0-1); Ryan Griffin (0-1), Brandon O’Connell, Ciarán Doohan (0-2); Barry Coote (0-4), Eoghan O’Leary.
Subs: Ian Carigg for O’Leary, Luke Browne for Doohan and Brendan Morrissey for O’Connell.