Our Seniors picked up their first win of their 2019 County Senior Hurling League Campaign producing a fantastic all round performance as they convincingly defeated Seamus O'Riain Cup Champions Moycarkey Borris in Littleton last Sunday morning.
We started the game at one miles an hundred miles an hour and with the aid of a strong breeze they raced into a 1-04 to no score inside the opening five minutes. The damage inflicted by two fines scores from JD Devaney and Jerry Kelly, an expertly finished Niall Kenny goal along two well struck Kevin Maher frees. Our early dominance continued throughout the rest of the half with further scores from Conor Kenny, Jack Hogan at midfield and the returning Dan McCormack who would round off the first half with a fantastic four points from play. A Kevin Maher free with less than a minute left to play brought us to the interval leading 1-11 to 0-05.
As expected Moycarkey came out fighting at the start of the second half getting four of the first five points of the second half to reduce the gap back to five after the opening ten. But another five minute flurry of scores from our lads including two well struck placed balls from Kevin Maher, a Niall Kenny point from play and a well worked goal finished off by Kevin Maher once more effectively put the result beyond doubt halfway through the the half. The scoreboard reading 2-15 to 0-10.
We finished the game in fine fashion with the addition of further scores in the final quarter including two goals from substitute David O'Connor, firstly getting his hurley to a long range free flicking the ball to Moycarkey net followed by a bullet of a penalty three minutes later. Three well taken scores from Shane Kenny, Dan McCormack and center forward Jerry Kelly rounded off a fine afternoon for the club as we ran out 4-19 to 0-13 victors. Great overall performance, well done to both players and management. Hopefully we can carry this form into our opening Championship game against County Champions Clonoulty Rossmore in four weeks times.
Team and Scorers:
James McCormack,
Seamus Burke, Ciaran Cowan, Paddy Stapleton
Liam Ryan, Sean McCormack, Ray McCormack
Tomas Ryan, Jack Hogan (0-01)
Conor Kenny (0-01), Jerry Kelly (0-03), Dan McCormack (0-05)
JD Devaney (0-01), Niall Kenny (1-01), Kevin Maher (1-06(0-06f))
Subs Used: Shane Kenny (0-01) for Jack Hogan, David O'Connor(2-00(1-00f)) for Kevin Maher
