Wicklow JAFC Shillelagh vs Baltinglass

Shillelagh 0-8

Baltinglass 1-7

Eoin Horkan

Pearse Park 

Baltinglass came out on top of a very tight tense affair played in Arklow last Friday evening.

The game started off very tight and niggly with Baltinglass hitting the first score of the game with a free from their talismanic full forward Puadie Swinbourne. This was the first score of the game coming from the Carrickmacross man.. Sjillelagh hit a reply almost immediately after from wing back who slotted over a free from the 21-yard line. The game was end to end for the next couple of plays before Baltinglass corner forward Brian Lord cut in through the opposition defense before slotting over a fine score.Sheilagh made a positional switch putting dangerous wing forward Brendan Behan into a two man full forward line along side Mark Collins. This move worked a treat with Collins latching onto a ball which he fired towards the goal but unfortunately for Collins Shillelagh Keeper Laurie Cullen pulled off a great save to put the ball over the bar. Whelan slotted over another free before that man Behan got onto a ball and fired it between the post. Swinbourne hit another trademark free in reply before Lord weaved his way through Shillelagh defensive system before firing over another score.  With the game in the balance heading into the half time break, Shillelagh edged their noses in front through center forward Gary Murphy hitting a fine long range score., Leaving Shillelagh 0-5-0-4 at half time.

Whatever was said to Baltinglass at the half time it certainly worked, because shortly after the throw in they hit the most important score of the game which was a goal coming from that man Swinbourne who was at the end of a fine flowing move before calmly slotting the ball into the back of the net.  Behan fire over a 45 in response before the game became very ill tempered this resulted in both teams getting a player sent off. Shillelagh corner forward David Cullen getting a straight red for striking out on an opposition defender this resulted in a tussle which resulted in Baltingalss full back Tommy Cullen also getting a straight red for his misdemeanor. Swinbourne hitting over two more points one from play before he slotted over another free. Both teams started to empty their benches in the final part of the game. Shillelagh sub-Stephen Byrne making an immediate impact with getting a point with almost his first touch. Shillelagh went looking for a goal but try as they might they couldn't find a breakthrough. The closest they got was a consolation score from Gary Murphy. Baltinglass sub-John Gillespie hit the final point of the game giving Baltinglass the win.

Scorers Baltinglass  Puadie Swinbourne (1-4 ) Brian Lord (0-2) John Gillespie (0-1)

Shillelagh D Whelan (0-2)  Mark Collins (0-1)  Brendan Behan (0-2) Gary Murphy (0-2)  Stephen Byrne (0-1)

Shillelagh   Laurie Cullen, Daniel Behan, Sean Carroll, Enda Foley; Keith Collins, Darragh Foley, David Whelan; Patrick Hennessy, Ray Murphy;

 Robbie Elliot, Gary Murphy, Brendan Behan; Mark Collins, Noel Murphy, David Cullen 

 Subs used Stephen Byrne for Robbie Elliot (46 min) Jim O Brien for Keith Collins (52 min) 

Baltinglass Patsy Keogh; David Jethings, James Keane Sean Parke; Micheal Dowling Tommy Cullen Paddy Kirwan; Lee Furlong, Mark Ashton; Stephen Quinn, James Quinn, Robin Farrell; Jack Timmons Paudie Swinbourne, Brian Lord 

Subs used   Niall Kirwan  for Enday Foley (22 min ) John Gillespie  for Mark Ashton (54 min) 

Wicklow JBFC AGB vs Kiltegan

Wicklow JBFC

 

Arklow Gerlandines Ballymoney 1-10

Kiltegan 0-6

Eoin Horkan

Pearse Park

Last Wednesday night the final round of the Wicklow Junior Championship was played between AGB and Kiltegan

Kiltegan started the game off like they meant to go on scoring three unanswered points. The first of these scores coming from centre-forward James Doyle hitting a fine score over the black spot. Doyle then got his name on the scoresheet again this time slotting over a free from the 21yrd line. Kiltegan then fired over there 3rd point of the game this score coming from corner-forward Padraig Keogh AGB got their first point in reply coming through corner forward Donal o Keefe.AGB hit three more points in succession. All of these scores came from AGB running at the Kiltegan defense The first of these points coming from midfielder Jack Darcy after he made a great solo run through the Kiltegan defense. Maurading wing back Jonathan Doyle then hit over another fine long-range score for AGB before Darcy hit another score which was basically a carbon copy of his first score. Kiltegan hit their final score of the first half with a traditional corner forward score winning the ball in front of the defender and slotting over a point. This score came from Steve Coogan. AGB hit the final two points of the first half one better than the other. Wing forward Garrett Kenny flicked the ball up on the run before hitting a fine score over from 30 yards. The final point of the half came from O Keefe again who put the ball over the bar from almost an impossible angle.' Leaving the score 0-6-0-4 at halftime.

The start of the second half started off a bit tighter with both sides trading scores. AGB hitting the first of these coming from corner forward Quentin O Reily before Keogh hit a reply for Kiltegan.AGB then hit the most important score of the game with the aforementioned Kenny getting on the ball on the Kiltegan 21yarrd line before making his way through the defense before slotting the ball into the back of the Kiltegan net. Keogh slotted over another free in reply for Kiltegan The game then went from end to end for the next couple of minutes with both sides wasting chances including both goalposts been hit. AGB hit the final three points of the game the first coming that flying wing back Doyle again before midfielder Jack Furlong hit another fine long-range score. Like the first half corner forward O Keefe ended the scoring with a great score to finish off the game. Leaving the final score

1-10-0-6.

Scorers AGB G Kenny (1-1) J Darcy (0-2) J Doyle (0-2) D'O Keefe (0-3) J Furlong (0-1) Q O Reily (0-1))

Kiltegan P Keogh (0-3) J Doyle(0-2) S Coogan (0-1)

AGB Kyle O Conor; Micheal O Sullivan, Tadhg O Callaghan, Ryan Stafford; Tom Hurley Paul O Donoghue Jonathan Doyle; Jack Furlong Jack Darcy; Gavin Bentley, Alan Mcbride, Garrett Kenny; Quentin O Reily Ian Bracken, Donal O Keefe

Kiltegan; Ciaran O Toole; Niall Foley, Colm O Conor, Faustas Andulens; James O Brien, Brien Kearney, Jamie Daly; John O Toole, Dan Kearney; Philp Penrose, James Doyle, Luke Byrne; Steve Coogan, Mark Ryan, Padraig Keogh

Subs used AGB Brendan o Sullivan for Ryan Stafford, S O Donoghue for Gavin Bentley(42 min)  Corey Mills for Ian Bracken (53 mins) Gary Fennell for Quentin o Reily (56 min) Stuart Mills for Garrett Kenny (58 min )

Kiltegan Ciaran Doyle for Faustas Andenlus, Mark Pierce for Luke Byrne (ht subs) Emmet Murphy for Philp Penrose (50 min) Darren Hobson for Steve Coogan (53 min)  Mark Brady for Padraig Keogh ( 56 min)

Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship Eire Og vs Kiltegan

Eire Og Greystones 2-17

Kiltegan 0-12

Eoin Horkan

Pearse Park 

Last Friday night in there was a great high scoring championship game played between Greystones and Kiltegan.

Greystones came flying out of the blocks getting the first point of the game directly from the throw in through center forward Anthony Byrne. Kiltegan hit back almost immediately with full forward Kevin Byrne hitting a fine score from play.  Eire Og the put their foot down getting four unanswered points from play. The first two of these coming from dangerous corner forward James( Pooch) Cranley. Wing forward Danny Nolan made a made a marauding run up the field and slotted the ball over the black spot. Cranley hit another trade mark score. Kiltegan in reply got a point through their own dangerous corner forward Sean Germaine. Anthony Byrne hit another point in reply for Eire OG. Germaine then hit over a free for Kiltegan. Cranley slotted over another point before full forward Micheal Walsh got his name on the score sheet with a lovely point from play. Wing forward Gavin Parslow tagged on another fine point for Eire OG.Germaine hit over another point for Kiltegan. With the game heading towards half time, Greystones hit a sucker punch getting the first goal of the game. Centre forward Byrne won a high ball on the 21-yard line before turning inside his marker and burying a shot into the top of the Kiltegan net.Cranley hit another lovely score before wing back Peter Keane hit a fine long range point from his own half. This left Eire Og 1-11 to 0-4 up at half time

Kiltegan hit the first score of the second half through Germaine hitting over another free. Cranley knocked over another score before Eire Og got their second goal. This coming through corner forward Hugh o Neil who managed to get his hurl on the ball in a goal mouth scramble to put the ball in the net.Kiltegan got two points in reply with midfielder  Padraig Byrne hitting a great long range point before Germaine put over another free. Greystones hit another purple patch getting three unanswered points from play two of them coming from the aforementioned Byrne before Nolan also got another point. Germine slotted over another free .Eire Og wing back Leon Byrne then managed to get his name on the scoresheet with another fine long range point Kiltegan hit two points in reply the first coming from wing forward Padraig o Toole and the second coming from Germaine who hit another free over the black spot. Cranley hit over Greystones final point of the game. Kiltegan finished the game off with two points from play, coming from center forward Aaron Byrne and the final score of the game coming from Padraig o Toole. Leaving the final score 2-17 to 0-12 to Eire Og.

Scorers Eire Og; J Cranley(0-7) A Byrne (1-4) D Nolan (0-2) M Walsh (0-1) G Parslow (0-1) P Keane (0-1) H O Neil (1-0) L Byrne (0-1)

Kiltegan  S Germaine (0-7) K Byrne (0-1), P O Toole(0-2) A Byrne (0-1) P Byrne (0-1)

Greystones; Dan O Neil, Sean Hughes, Billy Cuddihy, Daniel O Conor; Peter Keane, Mick Arrigan, Leon Byrne; Shane  Nolan, Kristin Flynn, Danny Nolan, Anthony Byrne, Gavin Parslow, Hugh O Neil, Micheal Walsh, J Cranley.

subs used Daniel Sammon for Micheal Walsh; Sean Corless for Gavin Parslow  Conal Deeney for Hugh O Niel  Ger white for Leon Byrne John Deeney for Shane Nolan

Kiltegan; Lucke Byrne, James O Brien Bryan Kearney, Nigel Nolan; Dan Kearney, Jeffrey Brimny, Colm O Conor; Rory Finn, Padraig Byrne, JJ Phelan Aaron Byrne, Padraig O Toole; Steven Coogan, Kevin Byrne, Sean Germaine

Subs Used Mark Pierce for Steven Coogan Ciaran Doyle for Nigel Nolan, MJ Moran for Sean Hughes  Christ O Toole for JJ Phelan John o Keefe for Dan Kearney



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Wicklow Junior A Championship AGB Vs Lacken

AGB 3-13 

Lacken 1-9 

Pearse Park 

Eoin Horkan

Last Thursday night in Arklow The second round of the Wicklow Junior championship was played with some great scoring from both sides.

The home side AGB started the game off at a frenetic pace with the first score of the game been a goal. This coming from pacy wing forward Peter Hempenstall who burst through the defense before neatly placing the ball into the bottom corner. AGB followed this sore up with another point from play from corner forward Quentin o Reily.In reply, Sean Murphy slotted a free for Lacken before Hempenstall got another point from play/. Murphy slotted another free. AGB then went on a scoring spree getting 1-3 without reply. The first of these been another goal coming from through the other wing forward Garett Kenny Alan Mcbride and Kenny hit over two more points from play before Mcbride hit over a free. With the game heading towards half time, Lacken hit two more points both coming from full forward Sean Murphy both fine long range scores leaving the score 2-5 to 0 -4 at half time.

AGB started the 2nd half very much like they started the 1st. With Quentin O Reily scoring another fine point from play after some fine build up work. Murphy got two frees in reply for Lacken. AGB then hit another foray of scores with no reply from Lacken.  Midfielder Jack Furlong hit the first of these points from long range point. Before sub-Shane  Donoghue slotted another point before the aforementioned Kenny hit another one over the black spot. Lacken then won a penalty after some fine play. Corner forward David Reddy slotted the penalty under the body of the AGB keeper Bolger.AGB hit one final purple patch before the end of the game. With all the scores coming from the play The first of these coming from midfielder Tiernan Mcbride before sub-Gary Fennel Fennel got his name on the score sheet. Hempenstall got his name on the score sheet again before wing back Jonathan Doyle made a burst up the field to put over another fine score.Lacken then hit their purple patch before the end with Murphy hitting over two dead balls one from a free and one 45.before hitting a monster long range point. Reddy hit over Lacken final score of the game. AGB went on one final foray up the pitch with the ball ending up in the hands of the evergreen McBride who went to put the ball over the bar but his shot was under hit and it looped over the goalie's head into the back of the net. Leaving the score 3-13 - 1-9 at the end of the game.

Scorers AGB; G Kenny (1-2) P Hempenstall (1-2) Q O Reily (0-2) A Mcbride (1-2)  J Furlong (0-1) S Donoghue(0-1) G Fennell (0-1) J Doyle (0-1) T Mcbride (0-1)

Lacken D Reddy (1-1 S Murphy (0-8) 

AGB James Bolger; Micheal o Sullivan Tadhg O Callaghan, Tom Hurley; Jack Darcy, Donal O Keefe J Doyle, Tiernan Mcbride, Jack Furlong; Peter Hempenstall, Alan Mcbride, Garett Kenny; Quentin O Reilly, Gavin Bentley, Corey Mills

Subs Used Shane  Donoghue for Donal O Keefe, Brendan O Sullivan for Jack Darcy, Gary Fennell, for Quentin O Reily, Freddie Miller for Corey Mills Liam Gregory for Corey Mills

Lacken James O Neil; Paddy Nolan, Daniel Griffin, Kenneth Balfe; Tom Mcguire, Eoin Cripps, Jordan Balfe, Matt Cripps Paul Phibbs Aron Griffin Philp Gallagher Conor Phipps, Sean Murphy David Reddy

Gaelic Football ; Wicklow vs Wexford u16 Carlow Cup 20/07/17

Wicklow 2-11

Wexford 2-13

Pearse Park 

Eoin Horkan

Last Thursday night in Arklow the Semi final of the Carlow cup was played in what was at times some very unfavorable conditions. Even with this being the case both sets of forwards came out on top in a very topsy turby match.

Wicklow started off the game at a frenetic pace scoring 1-1 inside the first five minutes. The goal was the first score after some very good build up play Wicklow corner forward Ruairi Tomkins stepped inside his marker and slotted the ball into the back of the net Wicklow full forward Eoin Darcy followed up the goal with a fine point from play. Wexford then kicked into gear with their first score coming from wing forward Jack Finucan scoring a point from a free before dangerous corner forward Lee Jordan popped over a point from play. Darcy scored a free in reply for Wicklow. Wexford got two points in reply with wing back Adrian Breen getting the first of these after making his way up the field before Finucan got another free. Some good defending followed for the next few minutes before Wicklow forward Darcy managed to get his hands on the ball to fire over another point from play.  

From the resulting kick out Wexford went on the attack and the aforementioned Finucan found space in front of the Wicklow goal before burying the ball into the back of the net. In retaliation to the goal, Wicklow replied with a goal of their own through corner forward Tomkins. Wexford got two points in reply both coming from their half forward line the first coming from Niall Connolly and the next coming through big center forward Mark Boyle. With the game edging towards half time both teams went on meaningful attacks with Wicklow getting another few points coming from corner forward Alan  Barrett and  Tomkins getting another point from some great build up play. Full forward Darcy scored a point from play before Wexford midfielder Ciaran Kavanagh made a lung bursting run up the field before putting the ball over the bar. Wicklow finished the half of well with points from play coming through Darcy again and center forward Niall Gaffney getting his name on the scoresheet. Leaving the score 2-7 - 1-7 to Wicklow at half time. 

Wexford must have got a good talking too at half time because they started the second half like a house on fire scoring 1-3 without reply in the first ten minutes.The first of these score coming from corner forward Jordan before that big center forward Boyle managed to get his hands on the ball in front of the Wicklow goal mouth before putting the ball into the back of the Wicklow net.That dangerous Wexford corner forward Jordan popped another score over the bar. Wexford followed up with another score from wing forward Finucan. This foray of scores kicked Wicklow into action scoring three points in reply all these scores coming from free kicks after some indiscipline from the Wexford defense.  Darcy scoring two of these frees with corner forward Ruari Tomkins hitting another free. Jordan fired over another free for Wexford to put them one point ahead. Wicklow leveled the game through Tomkins who scored a point worthy of winning any game swinning the ball over his right shoulder from a very difficult angle.    

Wexford finished the game off with Jordan scoring a free before getting an insurance point from play to put the game away from Wicklow in the final minute. Leaving the final score 2-11 - 2-13

Wicklow Kian Geraghty; Ben Fennel, Cian McHugh, Rory Whelan; David Lawlor, Dave Devine; Nicky Kearney, Cian Walsh Eoghan Byrne, David Maloney, Niall Gaffney, Oisin Cullen; Alan Barrett, Eoin Darcy, Ruarri Tomkins 

Scorers; E Darcy (0-6) R Tomkins(2-3)  N Gaffney (0-1) A Barrett (0-1)

Subs Johhny Kehoe for Eoghan Byrne, Gavin Fogarty for Nicky Kearney, Shaun Cranley for David Maloney, Dave Wright for Rory Whelan  Kevin Quinn  for Dave Wright 

Wexford Jack Nolan; Rob Murphy, Jason Deveraux, Gloudy Makvese, Darragh Canavan, James O Leary, Adrian Breen Ciaran Kavanagh, Harry Kehoe; Niall Connoly, Mark BoyleJack Finucan; Lee Jordan, James Dixon, Conor Hughes

Scorers  J Finucan (1-3) A Breen (0-1) L Jordan (0-6) M Boyle (1-1) N Connoly ((0-1) C Kavanagh(0-1)

Subs Ollie Gahan for Gloudy Makvese, Noel Rowsome for Adrian Breen, Gary hall Roche for Niall Connoly Ben Morris for Jack Finucan, Adam Mullins for James Dixon

Gaelic Football Junior A Championshp Carnew Vs St Pats 11/07/17

St Pats Wicklow 3-16

Carnew 0-3 

Eoin Horkan 

Pearse Park Arklow 

 Wow that was some display of scoring from Jonny Carton Last Tuesday night in Arklow when   the first round of the Wicklow Junior Championship was played between St Pats of Wicklow and Carnew 

The first five minutes of the game was very scrappy with both sides going on attacks but nothing meaningful came out of these attack. Pats then put the first score on the board through centre-forward Simon Boucher who scored a lovely point from play after some great play from the half back line. from the resulting kick out Pats won possession of the ball and after some very patient build up play midfielder Bosco Guinan scored a fine long range point. Carnew went up the other end of the pitch trying to get on the score sheet. They won a debatable free on the 21yard line. Evergreen full forward John Joe Myers put the ball over the bar. If his shot was a few inches lower the ball would have ended up in the back of the Pats net. This frightened Pats and kicked them into gear. From the free to the end of the 1st half Pats kept Carnew scoreless. While Pats themselves scored four unanswered points. The first of these coming from young corner forward Jack Kelly.For the next few minutes, Pats were very patient playing the ball around the 45-yard line before marauding wing-back Colin O Toole broke through the carnew defense and blasted the ball over the bar from inside the 21. Pats last two points of the half came from experienced corner forward Jonny Carton who scored a fine point from play before slotting the ball over from a close-in free. 

The 2nd half started off much like the first with Pats scoring the first point from play through full forward Joe Quinn.In reply Carnew full forward Myers got another score from a free This was Carnew last score until almost the end of the game  Pats then hit the first sucker with the aforementioned Carton getting the first goal of the game after some fine interplay. Caton the put on a scoring spree getting four points in a row two points from frees and then two from play.Boucher and Carton then traded scores for Pats. Boucher's coming from play and Carton coming from another free. Carton the buried another goal to really show Pats dominance at this stage. Pats started to empty their bench and this stage to give all their players game time. The first of these subs Brendan Cox scoring a great point from play. Carnew then scored a late consolation point through their player/manager Quentin House.In reply to this point, Pats scored another 1-2 before the final whistle. The points coming from Boucher and Kelly and the goal coming from Carton to top of a fine virtuoso display from him 

Wicklow scorers  J Carton (3-8 (4f )  S Boucher (0-3) J Kelly (0-2) B Guinan (0-1) B Cox (0-1) C O Toole(0-!)

Carnew JJ Myers (0-2F) Q House(0-1)

Wicklow Ian Murphy Kris Kavanagh, Lorcan Smullen Aron Dunne Ronan Conely David Byrne, Colin O Toole, Bill McHugh, Bosco Guinan Hugh Humby, Simon Boucher, Rhys Kelly; QuinnJack Kelly, Quinn Jonny Carton

 Subs used Shay Dunne for Colin O Toole, Brendan Cox for Rhys Kelly, Adam Cox for Joe Quinn, Eoin McGauley for Aron Dunne Sean Buckley for Hugh Humby 

Carnew; Colm Murphy; Graham Byrne, Patrick Nolan, Paul Murphy; Robert Roche, Micheal Collins, Stephen Murphy; Billy Rickerby, Dermot Doran; Micheal Osbourne, Gary Doran; Liam Kenny, Darragh Kelly, John Joe Myers, Padraig Doyle 

Subs used Quentin House for Stephen Murphy 

Gaelic Football Limerick vs Wicklow Division 4 football

Limerick 2-13  Wicklow 2-09

Eoin Horkan at Newcastle West

April 8 2017 12:00 AM

 

Wicklow's last game in the national football league was played on Sunday away in limerick. On a beautiful day, Limerick came out on top of a very tight, tense affair.

Wicklow came flying out of the blocks in Limerick with a fine point from play from Darren Hayden before Paddy Byrne latched on to a bouncing ball on the 21-yard line before slaloming his way through the limerick defence before slotting the ball into the corner of the net.

In reply, Limerick opened the scoring through full-forward Danny Neville. Wicklow kept the pressure on after this and this resulted in them winning a 45. Wicklow goalkeeper Mark Jackson made his up the field and slotted the 45 over the bar.

Rory Finn won a ball in midfield before bursting through a few Limerick players and hitting a monster score from the 45-yard line. Limerick seemed stunned by this fast start by Wicklow.

They then kicked into action scoring a goal and the points without reply. The Limerick scoring spree was started off by their goalie Brian Scanlon who equalled his Wicklow counterpart by scoring a 45.

Limerick wing forward Seamus O'Caroll then latched onto a ball before putting it into the back of the Wicklow net.

Limerick continued there scoring with corner-forward Sean McSweeney before the aforementioned Neville scored another point.

The game ebbed and flowed for the next few minutes before Wicklow got yet another fine long range score coming from Hayden yet again.

In reply, corner-forward Padraig Scanlon slotted another point over the bar. With the game moving towards half-time Wicklow wing forward Mark Kenny got on a ball and drove towards the Limerick goal as he ran along the end line no one expected much but out of nowhere Kenny unleashed a raspier of a shot that flew into the back of the Limerick net.

McSweeney and Kenny then traded frees just before the break, leaving the scoreline reading Limerick 1-6, Wicklow 2-5 at half-time.

The second half was a much more defensive from the Limerick side. The half started off well for the home team with Neville yet again getting another point from play.

Wicklow forward Kenny got two scores in reply, with one lovely point from play before slotting over a free kick.

Limerick then got a decisive score through full-forward Danny Neville who got his foot too the ball as it was rolling around the Wicklow goalmouth and the ball ended up in the back of the net.

Limerick then started too empty their bench with substitute Jamie Lee making an immediate impact by scoring a point from play.

Neville hit another point from play before Lee got on the score sheet again with a free.

After this flurry of score from Limerick, Wicklow hit another score through Kenny from a free.

The Limerick forwards were doing more damage when the ball was near them, especially Neville and substitute Lee; Neville hitting another score from play with Lee slotting another free.

Wicklow substitute Mark Fitzsimons got a final point for Wicklow at the end of the game, before lee hit a final point from play, too, leaving the final score reading Limerick 2-13, Wicklow 2-9.

Johnny Magee said that his charges played well in Newcastlewest, controlling the play for some of the game.

"We played well, we were in control of the game for good periods over the 70 minutes. We were shutting them out well. They had soem possession but they were hitting wides and we were happy they were getting the shots off from where they were, out wide.

"We were organised and disciplined and when we went forward we were economical," he added.

The Wicklow players will now go back ot their clubs for two weeks before returning to the county set up for five weeks ahead of the Louth clash, a game they are going in to as rank outsiders.

Scorers

Limerick: D Neville 1-5, J Lee 0-4, S O'Carroll 1-0, B Scanlon 0-1, P Scanlon 0-1, S McSweeney 0-2.

Wicklow: M Kenny 1-4, D Hayden 0-2, Paddy Byrne 1-0, R Finn 0-1, M Jackson 0-1, M Fitzsimons 0-1.

Limerick: Brian Scanlon; Garrett Noonan, Johnny McCarthy, Sean O'Dea; Daniel Daly, Ian Corbett, Padraig Quinn; Darragh Tracey, David Ward; Peter Nash, James Naughton, Seamus O'Carroll; Sean Sweeney, Danny Neville, Padraig Scanlon. Subs: Tony McCarthy for Daniel Daly; Jamie McGarry for James Naughton; Brian Donavan for Jamie Lee; Jamie Ryan for Sean McSweeney; Paul White for Padraig Quinn.

Wicklow: Mark Jackson; Eoin Murtagh, Ross O'Brien, Jamie Snell; Darren Hayden, Dean Healy, Ciaran Hyland; Rory Finn, David Boothman; Conor Ffrench, Stephen Kelly, Mark Kenny; Paddy Byrne, John Crowe, Peadar Traynor. Subs: Brendan Kennedy for P Traynor; Mark Fitzsimons for Paddy Byrne; Caolan MacGorman for E Murtagh.

Referee: Kevin Murphy

Hurling Mary I vs NUIG Fitzgibbon cup quarter final

2017 Fitzgibbon Cup ¼  Final.

Mary I     4-18

NUIG       1-16

A great display from defending champions Mary I gave them a comfortable 11 point victory over the visitors  NUIG.

Mary I started got off to flier with wing forward Darragh O Donavon scoring his first point. Nuig then levelled with a fine point from play from midfielder Ian fox. O Donavon the hit another fine long range point before  Mary I then went on their meaningful attack, midfielder Colm Galvin using his pace to get free from his marker his belter of a shot but  hit the crossbar with the quick - thinking corner forward Tadhg Gallagher finishing the rebounding sliotar into the back of the net, giving them a three point cushion

NUIG got two frees in reply. The first coming from centre back Connor Cleary bagging a fine long range free from well inside his own half, then  Corner forward Ger Hennely  slotted another from long range . The scores then started coming thick and fast from both sides with Mary I wing forward scoring two points from play before the aforementioned Hennely got a free in reply.  Aaron Gillane slotted the next two points, one from  a placed ball. Hennely scored two more long ranges frees for the visitors.

Mary I  had two  the next two white flags Corner forward Luke Meade had a fine point from play while the ever more influential Gillane slotted yet another free for Mary I .

NUIGs Conor Whelan then got the ball on the sideline then turned his marker inside out before hitting a point from an outrageous angle over the bar.. Not to be outdone by that great score Mary I then went on attack and after some great play from corner forward Tadhg Gallagher the ball was sent across the square to fellow corner forward Meade and after some amazing stick work  finished the ball ending up in the back of the NUIG net.

Yet again Hennely replied with two more scores one from a free and the other from play. The final few minutes of a pulsating half saw both teams put on scoring spurts getting three points each Mary I scores all coming from the stick of Gillane scoring two from play and one from a free , NUIG scores came from full forward Sam Conlan a majestic side-line cut from Conor Whelan and a fine point from Ian fox.  Leaving the half time score Mary I 2-11…..   NUIG 0-11…...

Much like the first half Mary I came out of the traps quicker with centre forward Michael O'Neil putting the ball over the black spot almost immediately after the restart. Like most of the game NUIGs response from the hurl of Hennely who scored two more points one from play and another from a free. Mary I then hit NUIG with a real sucker punch wing forward Gillane found himself at the edge of the square and after a fine bit of play buried the ball into the back of the net. Whelan and Gillane then traded scores with Whelan scoring from play and Gillane hitting over another excellent free. O'Neill popped up with another fine score for the home team. Yet again Hennely kept the scoreboard ticking over  with a badly needed  point.

Gillane sealed the visitors fate, again gaining possession  on the edge of the square  and  expertly finished the ball into the net. Yet again Gillane and Hennely traded frees.

As the game started to fizzle out both sides started to empty their benches. Meade got another lovely score for Mary I before NUIG scored a consolation goal through wing forward Gearoid Loughnane . Mary I finished the game two more points one from sub Tommy Monaghan and the other coming from the aforementioned  O'Neill, finishing off a rather facile win  4-16…...... to    1-18….... and booking their spot in this years semi final.

Mary I ( C Barrett, ; D Sweeney , R English, E Quirke; ,C Twomey,R Maher ,A Flynn , C Galvin , S Cahill D O Donavan(0-2) , M O Neill(0-3) A Gillane (2-10)  T Gallagher (1-0) C Lynch  L Meade (1-2)

Subs Used ; T Monaghan(0-1) for T Gallagher , T Grimes for D O Donavon , C Stapleton for C Twomey, T O Mahony for C Lynch , L Ryan for A Gillane

NUIG  C Tuohy ; C Cosgrove , B Fitzpatrick, C Ryan; M Connelly, C Cleary(0-1), G Forde , I Fox (0-2)  G Loughnanne(1-0) , K Mchugo, C Whelan (0-3) G Henelly (0-9) S Conlan (0-1) A Helebert

Subs Used G Fennely for A Helebert J Commins for K Mchugo C Cosgrave for G Forde S Barrett for G Loughnanne