AGB 3-10
St Pats 3-8
Ballymoney
Eoin Horkan
AGB made home advantage count
in the U13 D shield final on Sunday morning in Ballymoney by beating local rivals St Pats by two
points.
After a nervy opening few
minutes it was the away side who managed to take control of this final by going
five points ahead inside the opening ten minutes. It was Can Czwalina who
opened the scoring before Pat’s centre forward Daniel Connolly added a second
point before firing in a goal minutes later as his side were in complete
control. Playing against the wind AGB broke forward on the counterattack and
within minutes they had narrowed the gap to the minimum through midfielder Alex
O’ Brien who slotted a fantastic score from a narrow angle before he goaled in
the next phase of play to put this game back into the melting pot midway
through the half. Pats were finding it easier to score as they added three
points in between a solitary free from AGB’s Aleks Panic. With the aid of the
breeze Luke Connolly drove over from
long range along with efforts from Czwalina and centre forward Connolly. The
last few minutes of the half belonged to the Arklow men as Jamie Walker raised the white flag twice in the space of a minute
before O’ Bien levelled the tie on the halftime whistle.
The Wicklow town men flew out
of the blocks after the interval as Cal
Reid goaled within minutes of the restart. This was the end of St Pats’s
scoring as AGB took control of this tie with the aid the breeze at there backs.
It was AGB’s midfielders who were causing damage as they drove through the
middle of the opposition defence as O’ Brien and Conal Devereux narrowed the
gap to the minimum. The game turned in the home sides favour when Devereux
drove forward an unleashed a low shot which was deflected into their own net by
an opposition defender. The AGB purple patched continued as Panic slotted a
dead ball along with an effort from substitute James Byrne. The opposition
stemmed the tide with a Reid effort against the run of play. With ten minutes
to go in this tie the Gers goaled for a third time through Liam Flusk on top of
boomer of a point from Sean Jaworski. It
was backs against the wall stuff as Pats pushed forward in the final few
minutes. Two frees from Patrick Treanor and Harry Bowen narrowed the gap to two
points but a couple of last ditch blocks was enough to see AGB over the line in
this high scoring final.
AGB: Senan Byrne; Oliver
Kazimirs, Ryan Flanagan, Daniel O’ Loughlin; Sean Jaworski (0-1), Sylvester
Bourke; Conal Devereux (0-1), Alex O’ Brien (1-3); Jamie Walker (0-2), Aleks
Panic (0-2fs), Liam Flusk (1-0); Matthew Hayden, Dylan Forde.
Subs Used: Euan Miller, James
Byrne (0-1) Evan Fox, Charlie Kavanagh,
St Pats; Bill Guinan, Patrick
Treanor (0-1f), Conor Marah, Luka Bennett; Harry Bowen (0-1f), Eoin Treanor;
Ben O’ Leary, Cam Czwalina (0-2 1f); Cal Reid (1-1), Daniel Connolly (2-2),
Tyler Devlin; Adam Armstrong, Luke Connolly (0-1).
Subs Used: Aaron Cullinan, Sep
Phelan, Ryan Samson, Josh Murphy.
Referee Darragh Kelly (Carnew
Emmetts)
