SENIOR FOOTBALL; Austin Stacks 0-9; John Mitchels 0-8.
After a good win against Na Gaeil in the opening round our Seniors just had a one point win away to a good John Mitchels team in the second round of the Tralee/St. Brendans League on this Sunday afternoon (19th Feb.).
Playing into an almost gale-force wind in the first half we trailed by five points to two at the break – our two points coming from a Seán Quilter free in the 16th minute and one from play by Michael O’Gara in the 28th minute.
Eighteen minutes into the second half the sides were level on six points each with all our four coming from frees – three by Michael O’Donnell and the other from Seán Quilter. Three minutes later we went ahead for the first time in the game when Donagh McKivergan pointed from play. Mitchels took the lead again when they added two more points shortly after. However another Sean Quilter pointed free in the 60th minute leveled matters again and a minute later Shane O’Callaghan put over the winner from play
Our third and final round is another away game against Ardfert on next Sunday (26th Feb) at 12 noon.
Team: Ben Quilter, Paul O’Sullivan, Barry Walsh, Ronan Shanahan, Jack Murphy, Dean Rusk, Eoghan Carroll, Michael O’Donnell (0-3 frees), Seán Quilter (0-3 frees), Seán Ryan, Shane Carroll, Adam Curran, Donagh McKivergan (0-1), Shane O’Callaghan (0-1), Conor Myers.
Subs used: Michael O’Gara 20m) (0-1), Ruairí O’Connell (37m), Ciarán O’Connell (41m), Niall Fitzmaurice (51m), Cian Dillane (51m), David Fitzmaurice (57m), Luke Casey (57m), Joe Reidy (59m).