Kilmacanogue 0-9
Valleymount 3-11
Kilmacanogue
Eoin Horkan
The first round of the intermediate
relegation competition took place in Kilmacanogue late Sunday morning. The early
morning journey across the mountains didn’t affect Valleymount as they ran out
eleven point winners.
It was the home side that
opened the scoring in this encounter with centre forward Simon Doyle slotting
an early free. Valleymount responded quickly when midfielder Tadhg Miley drove
through the middle of the park to fire over the bar. With Valleymount starting
to control the play this resulted in a fine flowing move which ended up in the
hands of Robbie Miley who fired into the net for his side. It was Kilmacanogue
who responded to this goal with a well taken point from centre back Gavan Burke.
This was the last time the home side troubled the scoreboard until the last
kick of the half as Valleymount scored two goals and four points from the tenth
minute of the half onwards. As the visitors pushed forward it was Sean Higgins
who added his name to his side’s scorers with a fine effort from out wide.
Valleymount fired in a second goal of the half as Mark Richardson rattled the
back of the net to extend his sides lead. It was the away sides half back line
and midfield who were the catalyst for there dominance as Declan Cahill finished off another fine
flowing move for his side raising a white flag. With eight minutes to go in the
first half Valleymount opened their account from dead balls with two in the
space of three minutes from the boot of Brian Miley. Just before Mileys second
effort Richardson added a third goal of the half to consolidate there half time
lead. The final score of the half was a point
was from the home sides wing back Michael Whelan who drove forward at the end
of the half to stem the tide.
The second half of this tie
was a much more end to end as Kilmacanogue knew they had to narrow the gap but
every time they score Valleymount went down the other end to jeep the gap
between the sides.. It was Whelan who added his second at the start of the half
before Higgins cancelled out the early score. It was then the turn of Doyle to
open his account from play for the home side. As both sides were starting to
empty there bench it was Valleymount’s who made a bigger impact as Jack Miley slotted
two points off the bench in between an effort from Conor Gallagher. With the
game heading towards its inevitable ending both full forwards added minors each
it was Niall Meldon who narrowed the gap slightly before Richardson fired over
down the opposite end. It was the dangerous Doyle who narrowed the scores as he won an free before converting
it himself. As previous mentioned Valleymount subs were causing damage this time it was Adam
Condon who spilt the posts. The final two scores of the game came from the aforementioned
Meldon before midfielder Miley finished off the scoring in this tie.
Valleymount: Wayne Comerford; Shane Browne, Robbie Behan; Mick Byrne, William Kavanagh, Jean Luc Morris; Tadhg Miley (0-2), Declan Cahill (0-1); Liam Miley, Brian Flynn, Sean Higgins (0-2); Robbie Miley (1-0), Mick Richardson (2-1), Brian Miley (0-2fs).
Subs Used: Jack Miley (0-2)
for R Miley, Sam Reid for J.L. Morris, Adam Condon (0-1) for J Miley,
Jack Slattery for S Higgins, Paul Foster for B Flynn.
Kilmacanogue: John Fox: Joseph
Molloy, Cian Rafferty, Eoin Tohy; Michael Whelan (0-2), Gavan Burke (0-1), Luke
O’ Callaghan; Andrew Molloy, Robert Conan; Conor Gallagher(0-1), Simon Doyle
(0-3), Ben O’ Callaghan; Luke Kelly, Niall Meldon (0-2), Stephen Flynn.
Subs Used: Sean Clarke for
L Kelly, Jason Doyle for S Flynn, Michaél Masterson for J Molloy.
Referee Hugh Murphy (Bray
Emmets)
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