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
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