Sunday 23 Mar 2014Intermediate Hurling - League
Barryroe, 12:00PM
The first outing of the year, saw a Barryroe comeback just fail to catch Fr. O'Neills. On a pitch that was soft in parts, the visitors had much the better of the opening stages, and led by 5 pts to 2 after 12 minutes. Indeed things could have been a lot worse, but for a fine double save by Ger Keohane in the home goal. Kieran Griffin and Gearoid Whelton had our early points. Two more Fr. O'Neill points were answered by a Tadgh Harrington one, before the visitors struck for their first goal on 17 minutes.
Kieran Griffin accounted for the rest of our first half total, bar one fine long range effort from TimmyCarroll, to leave the visitors ahead 1-11 to 8 points at the break.
The opening stages of the second half saw Fr. O'Neills add four points while Kieran Griffin, Kierán Hurley and Timmy Carroll kept us in touch. Then Fr. O'Neills added a second goal from a penalty and at 2-15 to 0-11 points it looked a lost cause.
A quick goal and a point, by Kieran Hurley plus a point from Tadgh Mc Carthy however, raised hopes again and when Hurley answered two more points for the visitors with his second goal, it was game on again at 2-17 to 2-13.
Edward Dwyer and Kieran Griffin cut the gap to two points, but crucially, Fr. O'Neills broke upfield for a point to extend the lead to three again. Kieran Griffin and Ted Kearney added two further points to cut the gap to one, but the clock beat the home side in the end.
A decent opening display, in which a number of young players got a run, but a lot of work still to do.
Some pictures from the game.
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Pressure on the home goal.
Edward Dwyer breakes clear.
Pressure on the visitor's keeper.
All the way, as Kieran points from wide out.
Lán Chúl