Wicklow Junior B

AGB 2-9

Baltinglass 1-12

Eoin Horkan

Pearse’s Park

A fiery end to end  encounter from the opening whistle made this Junior B championship game one well worth watching

Baltinglass got off to a flying start straight from the throw in hitting an early score from play through wing forward Jack Fleming before midfielder Jamie McTiernan burst through from midfield before splitting the posts with a fine effort. Then a turning point came in the half when AGB corner back David Kenny was giving his marching orders with a second yellow card.  AGB hit their first score in anger through wing forward Jack D’Arcy who fired over after a great solo run through the opposition defence. The away side then hit over two quick fire dead balls through corner forward Jason Sinnott. The home side were kept in the game through that wing forward D’Arcy who hit two more scores from the play the 2^nd been audacious attempt off his wrong side that dissected the post.  Baltinglass then hit a purple patch scoring 1-5 without reply.  Full forward Tony Keely hit the opening score of this with a point from play, before corner forward Conor Foley fired the ball over the black spot twice in quick succession the first coming from play before he fired over a dead ball. Keely slotted over another before Keely put the ball into the AGB net with a palmed finished from the edge of the square.  Wing back Chris Grimes won a ball from a kick out played a quick one two before firing over a long range score to finish off the half. Giving the away side a 9 point lead at the break.

Whatever was side to the home side at the break certainly worked. They came

out of the blocks very quickly with full forward Alan McBride starting the

scoring with a long range free, before the game completely turned with two

goals in quick succession the first coming after a great team move which was

finished to the net by Mark Fitzgerald. Arklow then won a penalty which was

nicely put away by Wing forward David O Neil.  Sub Ciaran O Reilly got his first

score of the game with a nice close in score, Baltinglass knew they had to

respond which they did first through Keely again from play before goalkeeper

Will Rogers made his way up the field to slot a long range free. D’Arcy got his

name on the score sheet again before sub Richie Neary fired over. With the

game now in the melting pot AGB went all out attack and managed to win a

free out near the sideline and after some indiscipline from Baltinglass the free

was moved right in near the goal which sub O Reily duly slotted to level the

match. With the game in its dying embers the aforementioned Keely got his

hands on the ball and made his way along the end line and fisted the ball over

the bar. AGB made one last burst to level the game the ball ended up in the

hands of midfielder Donal O Keefe out near the 45 which he managed to put

over to level the game.

AGB Scorers-Jack D’Arcy 0-4, Alan McBride 0-1(1f), Mark Fitzgerald 1-0,

David O’ Neil 1-0 (1p), Ciaran O Reily 0-2, Richie Neary 0-1, Donal O Keefe 0-1

AGB; Kyle O Connor; David Kenny, Brendan O Sullivan, Corey Mills; Ben Fennel,

Padraig Kelleher, Shane Donohue; Tommy New, Donal O’ Keefe; David O Neil,

Cormac Hyland; Jack D’Arcy, Alan McBride, Mark Hurley

Subs Used;  Mark Fitzgerald for Padraig Kelleher ,Ross McBride for Cormac

Hyland, Ciaran O Reily for Gary Fenell,Richie Neary for David O’ Neil

Baltinglass Scorers; Tony Keely 1-4, Jason Sinnott 0-2 (2f) , Conor Foley 0-2(1f)

Jack Fleming 0-1, Jamie McTiernan 0-1, Chris Grimes 0-1, Will Rogers 0-1(1f)

Baltinglass; Will Rogers; Sean Parke, John Hennessey, Wesley Balfe; Declan

Jones, Jason Steede, Chris Grimes; Jamie McTiernan, Alan Nolan; Fabian

Dunne, Ross Nolan, Jack Fleming; Jason Sinnott, Tony Keely, Conor Foley

Subs Used; Derek Nolan for John Hennessey; David Whelan for Declan Jones;

Paudie Swinbourne for Conor Foley

Referee Robert Roche