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



.