Friday 21 February 2020

Mary I Junior Hurlers


UCC 3-19

MIC 0-9

The MIC junior hurlers travelled to the Mardyke for there 2nd  match in the space of week. The away side only travelled with 15 players to this knockout clash.
The home side hit the ground running from the opening whistle scoring  6 unanswered points, four of these coming from play along with two dead balls. MIC eventually opened the scoring through corner forward Ciaran Barrett from a free before wing back Jack Ryan split the posts from long range before Barrett added two more frees to narrow the gap. UCC responded with four more quick fire scores before the break to extend there lead before half time giving them a 6-point lead at the break.

MIC opened the scoring of this half with a free from Barrett before UCC responded with another point from play. The away side started to get back into the game firing over 3 scores in quick succession. The first coming from midfielder David Croke after a fine run from the middle before Barrett slotted over two more dead balls. These scores narrowed the gap to three points. This was the closest the away side got to UCC. The home side then took complete control after Barrett’s score, in this purple patch they scored 3-8. This finished the game of a contest. Barrett fired over one more free for the away side to narrow the gap at the end.
Unfortunately, this was the end of the road for the junior hurlers for the season

MIC Joe Lynch; Ciaran Guinan, Kevin O’ Mara, Stephen Curry; Gerard O’ Dwyer, Oisin Ryan, Jack Ryan (0-1); David Croke(0-1), Dan O’ Donovan, Barry Motherway, Donal Donoghue, Michael Cussen, Ciaran Barrett(0-7) , Martin Grace, Damien Boyle

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