Match report by Time Tiger Slattery
Fossa 1-7 Austin Stacks 1-10
This was the first ever meeting between these two teams in the County league.
Fossa opened the scoring on nine minutes with a point from a free by Emmett O’Shea,and within three minutes Stacks were ahead two pointed frees from Micheal O’Donnell and Donagh McKivergan.
Emmett O’Shea from play had the sides level on the 14th minute,Greg Horan and Barry Shanahan with points made it a two point game for Stacks and just before the interval Kieran O’Sullivan had a Fossa point to leave the minimum between the sides.
Half Time score Austin Stacks 0-4 Fossa 0-3.
Cian O’Shea with a point levelled the scores on the 34th minute and seven minutes later Luke Casey was fouled going through and the referee awarded a penalty which was scored by Adam Curran.
Shane O’Callaghan from a mark,Greg Horan from a pass from Jack O’Shea and David Mannix also from a mark made it a six point game.
Greg Horan with a point from a David Mannix pass and a Conor Horan mark made it an eight point game with six minutes remaining.
Cian O’Shea had a Fossa goal only for Eoghan Carroll to restore Stacks six point lead,Emmett O’Shea with two points and his brother Tadhg with another finished the scoring for Fossa to make it a three point game.
Full Time Austin Stacks 1-10 Fossa 1-7
Austin Stacks Team: Ben Quilter,Joey Nagle,Jack O’Shea,Niall Fitzmaurice,Luke Casey,Adam Curran (Pen 1-0),Eoghan Carroll (0-1),Michael O’Donnell (0-1f),Barry Shanahan (0-1),Donagh McKivergan (0-1f),Jack Morgan,Conor Horan (0-1m),Shane O’Callaghan (0-1m),Greg Horan Capt (0-3),Darragh O’Brien.
Subs David Mannix (0-1m) for Darragh O’Brien,Luke Chester for Eoghan Carroll,Cillian Litchfield for Shane O’Callaghan,Eoghan Carroll for Michael O’Donnell,Cian Dillane for Luke Casey.
Referee Brendan Brosnan Glenflesk
One interesting stat the O’Shea brothers Cian,Emmett and Tadhg scored all bar one point for Fossa 1-6.
The Horan brothers Greg and Conor scored four points for Austin Stacks.
