Fresher A Hurling

NUIG 3-18

MIC 3-12

The fresher A hurlers traveled up to Dangan Wednesday night to play in an all or nothing knockout hurling game.

The game started off at a serious pace with both sides hitting the net in there first attacks the home sides goal coming through there wing forward before MIC’s full forward rattled home a response after the ball came down of the post.  The game settled down then after such a frenetic start. The away side edged ahead with a fine point from wing back John Ryan, the home sides response came with a point from that wing forward again. MIC’s center back Aidan McCarthy then dissected the posts from the sideline to edge them back in front again. NUIG responded with a quick-fire goal and two points. With the game ebbing and flowing either side, NUIG corner back got a straight red card for a bad tackle.  Aidan Griffin duly slotted over the resulting free before adding another shortly after. Cathal O Leary extended the lead for the away side with another long-range point. The homes side responded with a two frees either side of a Griffin goal from play. With the game edging towards the whistle the scores kept on flowing with MIC firing over three more points and NUIG responding 4 giving the home side a 1-point lead at the break.

 The home side flew out of the blocks in the 2^nd half with there center forward firing over 5 frees in succession. McCarthy responded with a point from play before adding another from a dead ball. NUIG tagged on 4 more points with a solitary reply from Griffin from a dead ball again. With MIC needing a draw to get through and time nearly up they started to launch ball after ball on top of the NUIG defense Power fired narrowly over the bar before Griffin buried a 21-yard free to leave a goal in it. With MIC going on all out attack NUIG finished the game off with a goal with the last puck of the game.

MIC; Micheal Duggan, John Ryan, Jason Niland, Darragh Nolan, John Nolan (0-1), Aidan McCarthy (0-3), Liam Delaney (0-1), Aaron Ryan, Eoin Guilfoyle, Cathal O Leary (0-1), William Halpin, Ciaran Byrne (0-1), Cathal Doyle, Cormac Power (1-1) Aodan Griffin (2-4)