Blistering start sees us progress to the County U16 final
September 30, 2019
Killavullen, with a blistering start saw off Donoughmore in the County Semi Final – U16 Division 2 grade tonight under lights in the excellent venue that is Glantane.
Shane Walsh opening the scoring for us in the 3rd minute followed by a lovely strike from Michael Walsh in the next minute before the mercurial Jamie Magner got his opening score of a sparkling display in the 5th minute. With our next attack, Sean Palmer found Jamie and he finished expertly to the net, and repeated the dose in the next minute from the opposite side to have us leading by 2-03 to no score, with only six minutes gone. Jamie scored another free in the 8th minute before our mid Cork opponents scored a point from a free after 10 minutes. Jamie replied with another converted free and then Seamus O Mahony put a ball over the bar with a crisp finish. Our forward were getting a great supply of quality ball at this stage, and Michael Walsh profited again in the 17th minute. Patrick O Grady was influential in the half forward line, and he duly scored a real beauty of a point in the same minute, and was fed by Michael Cagney in the next minute to register his second point. Donoughmore scored a nice point from play in the 19th minute only for Jamie to cancel out that score with another lovely point in the next minute. Donoughmore scored two rapid fire points in the 21st and 23rd minute from a free, before Jamie converted two long range points from frees in the 24th and 25th minutes. Donoughmore got another point before Jamie bagged his hat trick in spectacular style with a rising blistering shot that rifled into the net. Patrick got this 3rd point of an excellent first half for Killavullen and Jamie converted another free to bring our half time tally to 3-14 as against 0-05 for our opponents at the short whistle.
Sean Palmer got the opening point of the 2nd period in the 3rd minute but Donoughmore got two points back with converted frees in the 6th and 7th minutes. Patrick got two more points in the 10th and 13th minutes, the second of these was a sweet strike, in a congested goal area. Donoughmore got another point back before Killavullen rang out some changes from our impressive bench. Colm Nagle came on for Michael Walsh, and Jack Martin was introduced for Shane Walsh. Oisin Larkin was utilised for Seamus O Mahony, and Eoin O Hanlon for Jamie Magner. Michael Cagney capped his impressive hour when a long range shot of his, deceived the Donoughmore goal keeper who was very good on the night and went in, over the line. For his troubles, Michael was duly replaced by Rory O Regan after picking up a knock on his knee to leave the final score 4-17 to 0-09 at the end of the game.
Killavullen eased up somewhat in the 2nd period with the big interval lead so to win out the county, a true 60 minutes of hurling will be required.
On the night, our forward will gain the plaudits but we were very good in the back line as well, with Chris O Callaghan, and Ronan Barry influential but each player that featured in the game were good also.
The final is planned for 6.30 PM on this coming Friday night, the 4th of October in Pairc Ui Rinn against Newcestown, who will provide stern opposition.
The team was;
- James O Keeffe
- Joe Cagney
- Chris O Callaghan
- Conor Brennan
- Ronan Barry (0-01)
- Sean Barthly
- Kian Lane
- Michael Cagney (1-00)
- Sean Palmer (0-01)
- Seamus O Mahony (0-01)
- Conor Griffin
- Patrick O Grady (0-05)
- Shane Walsh (0-01)
- Jamie Magner (3-06, 0-04F)
- Michael Walsh (0-02)
Substitutes
- Colm Nagle for Michael Walsh
- Jack Martin for Shane Walsh
- Oisin Larkin for Seamus O Mahony
- Eoin O Hanlon for Jamie Magner
- Rory O Regan for Michael Cagney