AGB 0-12
Blessington 5-11
Eoin Horkan
Pearse Park
Blessington ripped up the form
book on Sunday when they hit 5 goals before midday when beating AGB in the
league.
After travelling an hour down
the road for this early Sunday morning game Blessington found it hard to
trouble the scoreboard early on . AGB’s Stephen Hurley opened the scoring with
a long range effort with the outside of his boot. Stephen Carroll at wing
forward for the visitors responded with a minor score as he cut in from the
wing to split the uprights . The home side playing against the wind fired over
two more score with Sean Crowley firing over a forty five . Cormac O’ Shea then drove over a second
effort to extend his sides lead . As AGB
looked like they were going to kick on and extend the lead Blessington kicked
into gear notching 1-4 without a response heading into the break . Anthony
McLoughlin free narrowed the gap to the minimum . Corner forward Jordan Nolan then manged to win the ball
inside the danger zone and fire into the back of the net to change this contest
completely . Michael O’ Connor in the opposite corner to Nolan slotted over two points in quick
succession the first from play before adding a free. Travers in the home side’s
goal saved expertly at point blank range to keep his side in the contest .
McLoughlin added one final free before the half time whistle to widen the gap
between the sides
The second half of this game
was a much higher scoring affair . The home side opened the scoring again this
time through Cathal Kelleher before Curtis Geraghty responded in kind to keep
that gap on the score board. The home side started to empty the bench . Conn
Kinsella made an immediate impact scoring two minors in between an effort from
Nolan .
Against the wind in the second half the away side were starting
to run the ball through the defence one of these runs ended up in the hands of
full forward Dean Siney who rattled the back of the net . O’ Connor who was forever
a danger inside managed to add a second major moments later . It was nearly
three goals in a row only for the efforts of Travers who expertly kept out
another goal bound effort . The resulting forty-five was converted by
goalkeeper Michael O’ Toole . The home side were scoring in spurts this time sub
Sean Hurley managed to split the posts with two fine long range efforts before another sub Cian
Cooney fired over from a tight angle . With the game petering out Nolan fired
an effort from a narrow angle into the top of the Geraldines net. Cooney scored
a carbon copy of his first effort to narrow the gap slightly . Geraghty added
another minor to his tally along side
Mcloughlin who opened his scoring from play . Stephen Hurley aided by the
breeze drilled a long range free over as
the game neared the final whittle . The final goal of the game was from the
boot of Geraghty who expertly lobbed the onrushing Travers to kill the game
completely . Kinsella’ slotted a close in free as a final consolation score .
The visitors had the last laugh as that man Nolan dissected the uprights to
finish of the scoring in this tie.
AGB: Mervyn Travers: Kyle
Dowling, Ciaran Hyland, Karl Kirwan; Tom Maher, Cal Kelly, Niall O Reilly; Sean
Crowley(0-1 45), Tiernan McBride; Daire McBride, Cathal Kelleher(0-1), Ciaran O
Shea; Philp Healy, Stephen Hurley(0-2 1f), Cormac O Shea(0-1)
Subs Used: Conn Kinsella(0-3
1f) for Cal Kelly, Sean Hurley(0-2) for Daire McBride . Cian Cooney(0-2) for
Ciaran O’ Shea, Corey Mills for Kyle Dowling ,Shane McBride for Cormac O Shea.
Blessington: Michael O’ Toole
(0-1 45): Luke O Brien, Brian Bohan , Ethan Cotter; Kevin Hanlon, Paul
Mcloughlin, Jordan McGarr; Thomas Fisher, Sean Byrne; Stephen Carroll (0-1),
Anthony McLoughlin (0-3 2fs) Curtis Geraghty (1-2); Michael O’ Connor ( 1-2
1f), Dean Siney (1-0), Jordan Nolan (2-2)
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