Brave B’s Bow Out

JUNIOR B FOOTBALL:
John Mitchels 3-10; Austin Stacks 2-11.

We exited the Molyneaux Cup at the quarter final stage going down to Mitchels in Boherbee on this Friday evening (19th Aug). We have often heard of the game of two halves. Well you could term this one the game of four quarters.  At the end of the first quarter we led by 0-3 to 0-0 (Ronan Shanahan, Joey O’Connor and Padraig Breen on target).

During the second quarter Mitchels scored 3-7 to 0-0.  In the third quarter it was three points each and in the final quarter we scored 2-5 to 0-0.  The two Davids – Mannix and Clifford started the come back in the second half with the former scoring three points and Cliffy scoring 1-2. Paul Barrett coming up from wing back also pointed. Our second goal, with three minutes of normal time remaining, was blasted low to the corner of the net by Paddy Fitzgibbon.  This left us just four points in arrears (after being down fifteen points, five minutes into the second half).  Three minutes of added time was played and in that time Denis McElligott, with two points, reduced the deficit to two and we were in the attack in the Mitchels square when the final whistle sounded and after a brave effort we jut fell short in the end.

Team: Jonathan Conway (Capt), Padraig Lynch, Seamus Bastible, Shane Fitzgerald, Alan Crean, Sean Purcell, Des Fitzgerald, Gearoid McCann, Ronan Shanahan (0-1), Padraig Breen (0-1), Denis McElligott (0-2), Joey O’Connor (0-1 free), Thomas Moore, St. John Hegarty, Dale Counihan.

Subs: Shane Carroll (25m), Paul Barrett (25m) (0-1), David Mannix (25m) (0-3 – 1 free), David Clifford (ht) (1-2), Paddy Fitzgibbon (44m) (1-0).