Intermidiate Hurling Championship

 

Intermediate Hurling Championship

Arklow Rocks Parnell’s 2-15

Barndarrig 1-8

Pearse Park

Eoin Horkan

 

The second round of the intermediate hurling championship took place in Arklow on Friday night, with local rivals Arklow Rocks Parnell’s facing Barndarrig.

With both sides having lost there first match it was imperative that one of the sides got their championship campaign  off to a winning start. The Rocks made hometown advantage count by coming out on top in this local derby.

The Rocks were the first team to threaten the scoreboard as centre forward Paddy Mellon slotted the opening point of the game. Barndarrig’s response came from the hurl of Jacques McCall who carried on his scoring from the first round with an early free. PJ O’ Connor wing forward for the Rocks started to get his hands on the ball much more and using his speed managed to slot two points in a row in between an effort from his fellow wing forward Cathal Byrne. McCall added another dead ball in response before Shane Mellon extended the lead for the Arklow side raising another white flag.

McCall was keeping his side within touching distance with a further free. The Arklow side then managed to double their lead when corner forward Corner Jameson rifled a ball into the roof of the net. McCall responded again this time with a point from play before full forward Aaron Jackson grabbed the sliotar out of the air before firing into the net to narrow the gap again .This was the closest his side got to Arklow as they then went on to hit a goal and four points without reply before the half time whistle .Darragh Walker opened his account for the evening before PJ O’ Connor slotted a free and another effort from play . In between O’ Connor’s efforts ,midfielder Tom Somers collected a ball way out the field and his solo run ended up with him driving the ball into the far corner of the net. Paddy Mellon finished the scoring in the first half for his side.

 

The second half started with a bang when almost immediately Conor Doyle split  the posts from long range  twice in a number of minutes in between another minor from McCall. Mellon added a third point to his tally for the day this time from a place ball. Barndarrig’s corner forward Andrew Traynor who looked dangerous anytime the ball came into him let rip a goal bound effort that flew over the bar. With both sides starting to look for impact of the bench it was the Rocks who notched the next score through substitute Liam Somers. The two Mellon’ s then finished off the scoring for Arklow raising  two more white flags. Traynor spilt the posts from play with McCall adding one final place ball for his side before the full time whistle.

 

 

 

Arklow Rock’s Parnell’s: Daniel Reilly; Des Byrne, Darren Reilly, Daniel Long; Tyrone Byrne, Cian Doyle, Sean McCarthy; Tom Somers (1-0), Conor Doyle (0-2); PJ O’ Connor(0-4  1f), Paddy Mellon (0-4 1f), Cathal Byrne (0-1); Conor Jameson (1-0), Shane Mellon(1-2), Darragh Walker (0-1)

 

Subs: Liam Somers (0-1) for Cathal Byrne, Conor Gahan for Daniel Long.  

 

Barndarrig: David Boddy; Roger Belton, Michael Owen Byrne, Liam Dickenson ; James Cullen , Tim Byrne, Conor Crowley ; Tom Doyle , Malachy Stone; Peter Boddy, Jacques McCall  (0-6 4fs), Hugh Doyle ;Andrew Traynor (0-2), Joe Murphy (1-0) , David Dickenson.

 

Subs Used : Michael Doyle for Peter Boddy, Oisin Doyle for Conor Crowley.

Referee Mick Owens ( Avondale)