Minor Hurling Wicklow

 Bray Emmett’s 5-15

Arklow Rocks Parnell’s/ Kilcoole 3- 15

Minor Hurling Championship

Eoin Horkan

Bray Emmett’s Gaa Club

A strong 2 nd half comeback wasn’t enough for Arklow Rocks Parnell’s/ Kilcoole

as Bray Emmett’s came out on top in this high scoring game in the first round

of the minor hurling championship.

Bray with home advantage flew out of the blocks quickly with centre forward

Adam Prunty driving through the opposition defence to grab his sides first goal

of the game . Not to be deterred the visitors pushed forward and got there first

goal from wing back Adam O’ Leary who finished well to level the tie . The

first half then turned into a dead ball competition between the centre

forwards on both sides . Prunty hit five scores in a row two from sixty fives

before adding three more frees to his tally . Midfielder Liam Egan opened his

account from play after the flurry of frees . The home side who were flying at

this point added two well taken goals. Both corner forwards Willie Cash and

Darragh Ward raising green flags one after the other. Prunty slotted a minor

from play before Arklow responded. With the game heading towards the

break the visitors pushed forward this resulted in centre forward Willie Cash

slotting four frees while his first cousin and namesake added one more score

for the home side to extend their lead.

After the games resumption Egan added two more white flags for his side .

Cash was keeping the visitors in the game with his expertly taking frees as he

fired over two more . Arklow then manged to narrow the gap when Nial O

Donovan managed to bundle the ball into the net . Liam Murphy came up from

centre back to narrow the gap even further . Bray started to empty their bench

and substitute Donnacha MacMaoláin made an instant impact grabbing his

sides fourth goal . Egan added yet another score moments later . Cash landed

another place ball before wing back Bartley Crummy split the posts with a long

range effort . The ever dangerous Cash stemmed the tide with a well taken

point for the home team . The visitors were then reduced to fourteen men

when Liam Murphy was shown a straight red for an off the ball incident . This

seemed to spur them on getting the net three point with O’ Donavan firing

over before cash added two more to his tally Conor Broderick managed to get

his name on the scoreboard with a free from close in . Tiernan Gahan then

came off the bench to fire into the net with Dale Van Dalen pointing from out

wide for the visiting team .

With the tie getting tighter Bray scored one – one against the run of play with

full forward Tristan Doherty raising a white flag before that man Cash drove in

another goal to effectively finish the tie off . Conor O’ Mahony drove two

fierce efforts towards the goal for Arklow , his efforts flew just over . Liam Egan

fired over the insurance score for his side leaving six between them at the final

whistle.

Bray Emmett’s: Adam Windsor; Ronan Hogan, Tadhg Treacy, Senan Croke;

Éanna Hayes, Séan Kenny, Finn Redmond ; Conor Broderick(0-1), Liam Egan(0-

5); Ryan Harrison, Adam Prunty(1-6 3 fs 2 65s), Ciarán Kelly; Darragh Ward(1-),

Tristan Doherty(0-1), Willie Cash 2-2)

Subs used : Donnacha MacMaolain (1-0) for Darragh Ward, Matthew

McGovern for Senan Croke

Arklow Rocks Parnell’s/ Kilcoole : Cian Redmond; Donnacha Murphy, Miley

Connors, Padraig Kelly; Bartley Crummy(0-1), Liam Murphy(0-1) ,Adam O’

Leary(1-); Darragh Shannon, Ben Campbell; Dale Van Dalen(0-1), Willie Cash(0-

9 8 fs) , Nial O’ Donavan (1-1); Jack O’ Reilly , Conor O’ Mahony(0-2) , Chris

Horan

Subs Used: Tiernan Gahan(1-0) for Jack O’ Reilly , Adam O’ Farrell for Chris

Horan