Ballina 4-10
Crossmolina 3-20
St Tiernach’s Park Crossmolina
Eoin Horkan
Anyone in attendance at St Tiernach’s park on Sunday
afternoon witnessed one of the finest games of football in the
Mayo club championship in recent times. It was the home side
that managed to come away with the bragging rights winning by
seven points.
In what was a rip roaring encounter from the throw-in Evan
Regan set the tone early using the wing to his advantage to slot
over a two point effort. The game was level within two minutes
as Oisin Deane and Patrick Leddy had opened their account for
the day. With the aid of the breeze Regan restored the lead.
The home side then took control as they moved Leddy out to
the middle of the park. A David Clarke save from Conor Loftus
resulted in a forty-five which Kobe McDonald fired over. This
was the start of a purple patch as Jordan Flynn, James
Maheady and Leddy raised white flags inside the opening ten
minutes. The opposition started to battle back, led by Mayo
seniors Sam Callinan and Frank Irwin. These were cancelled
out by Maheady before the first major of the game. A long ball
landed into the lap of Mikey Murray who played a number of
passes before palming it into the net from close range. With ten
left of the clock McDonald who was playing inside doubled his
tally.Just as it looked like the home side were in control Dylan
Thornton fired a pass into Ciaran Treacy who slotted into the
net. It was the Deel who finished stronger with McDonald
raising an orange flag before Dylan Flynn ensured the sides
would go in level at the break.
After the interval the side in maroon nearly goaled but
McDonald's solo effort came back off the post as Clarke was
beaten. The Stephenites pulled away early in the half as Irwin
slotted a dead ball before Treacy was fed by Regan to slot into
the far corner of the net. The home side's half forward line all
managed to score inside five minutes with Deane, Flynn and
Niall Coggins had the gap back to one ten minutes into the half.
With the aid of the breeze it was the aforementioned McDonald
who slotted a second two pointer this one from a dead ball to
give his side the lead again. Both sides were having mini
periods of dominance as Regan added three more to his tally
before his free kick from out wide caused carnage in the
defence, before Dylan Thornton ensured it went into the back of
the net.
The last ten minutes of this round two game belonged to the
home team as they pushed for home with Flynn powering
forward to fire over.
The first of the home side's green flags came from Niall
Coggins before the same man assisted full back Kevin Mulhern
to slot past Clarke. An Irwin effort stemmed the flow slightly.
The final seven minutes of the game ensured victory for the
after sub Sean Regan was black carded for Ballina. With the
aid of the extra man efforts from Maheady, Flynn and Leddy in
between a goal from the classy Conor Loftus assisted again by
that man Coggins. In the final play of the game the home side
ended with fourteen as Jordan Flynn was given his second
yellow as he stopped the opposition getting near the goal.
Ballina:David Clarke;Liam Golden,Luke Jordan,Sam Callinan(0-
1);Brendan Collins,Padraig O’ Hora,David Tighe;Mikey
Murray(1-0),Frank Irwin(0-3);Dylan Thornton(1-0),Conor
McStay,Niall Feeney;Evan Regan (0-6),Luke Feeney,Ciaran
Treacy(2-0).
Subs Used:Jack Irwin for Niall Feeney,Sean Regan for Luke
Feeney,Ben Thornton for Ciaran Treacy,
Crossmolina:Patrick Loftus;Sean Og McGuiness,Kevin
Mulhern(1-0), Matthew Gordetskyy;Aaron Coggins,Conor
Loftus(1-0),Josh Moyles;Jordan Flynn,(0-2),Kobe McDonald(0-
7);Dylan Flynn(0-2),Oisin Deane(0-2)),Niall Coggins(1-1);
James Maheady(0-3), Patrick Leddy(0-3), Diarmuid Coggins.
Darragh Syron for Diarmuid Coggins,Diarmuid Walsh for James
Maheady,Mikie Loftus for Kevin Mulhern.
Referee: Jerome Henry
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