Ireland vs Korean Game 2

 Ireland 14

Korea 2

Eoin Horkan 

SDSU

Ireland’s men's lacrosse team continued their fine form with a dominant display from start to finish to see off Korea by twelve goals.

Ireland won the first face off and went straight towards the opposition goal. After three great saves by the Korea goalie Tadhg O’ Riordan eventually broke the deadlock four minutes into the quarter.Within minutes Irekabd and O’ Riordan had doubled their advantage with his second goal assisted by Conor Foley with even left in the opening quarter . R Dunbar was battling well at every face off which gave Ireland  the platform to attack at will. In the final four minutes they fired in three  more goals first from Brian Smyth before Kevin Summerville, Patrick Corbett . Leaving the Irish six up at the first break.

After the whistle Aidan Dempsey fired in a seventh goal before Korea managed to narrow the gap by one. With both defenses on top in this quarter it was Ireland who eventually broke through twice more, extending the lead by 2 with efforts from Corbett and Dempsey again. This left them eight up at the break.

Goals were more difficult to come by in the third quarter until Conor Foley grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck..Korea hit their 2nd goal which at this  stage was only a consolation.

Ireland netted twice in the final quarter as the heat was starting to tire both teams.Luke Palmadesso extended the lead with Luke Ma;loney netting the final goal of the game.

Ireland play Latvia on Saturday 10.00 SD time 

Ireland:Conor Kelly,Ruairi Dunbar,Tiernan Donovan ,Tadhg O'Riordan,Thomas Burke,Patrick McShane,Luke Palmadesso,Sean Gibson,Kevin Somerville,Conor Foley,Luke Maloney ,Gearoid Dunbar,Conor Shears,James Fennessy,Joe Walsh,Andy Meyers, Jack Galvin,Brady Morin,Patrick Corbett,Brendan Boles,Brian Smyth,Pat Smyth,Aidan Dempsey