SENIOR FOOTBALL; Austin Stacks 1-22 (25); Na Gaeil 2-6 (12):
Like our Minors a few weeks ago our Seniors also opened their three-round Tralee/St/ Brendans League with a winning start in Connolly on this Sunday afternoon (12th Feb). Seán Quilter won the throw-in and raced up-field to score the opening point after just ten seconds. Na Gaeil responded quickly with their opening point a minute later. We then added six more points to two for the opposition by the end of the first quarter to leave us ahead at that stage by four points (0-7 to 0-3). We had an even better second quarter adding a further eight points to one for the visitors to give us an eleven points lead at half time (0-15 to 0-4).
Na Gaeil started the second half with two very well-taken goals inside the opening four minutes to reduce the deficit to just five points. But a brilliant goal by Seán Quilter a minute later got us back on the road to victory and we were never in danger after that. With Billy Lee and his colleagues using the bench we went on to dominate again with nine of our starting 15 getting on the score sheet during the course of the hour.
Our two remaining games are now away – to John Mitchels next Sunday (19th Feb) and Ardfert the following Sunday (26th Feb), both with 12 noon starts.
Team: Ben Quilter, Luke Chester, Barry Walsh, Ruairí O’Connell, Ronan Shanahan, Ciarán O’Connell, Eoghan Carroll (0-1), Michael O’Donnell (Capt) (0-1 free), Seán Quilter (1-4 – 3 frees), Seán Ryan (0-1), Adam Curran (0-1), Shane Bastible (0-2), Donagh McKivergan (0-7), Shane O’Callaghan (0-3), Conor Myers (0-2).
Subs used: Jack Murphy, Shane Carroll, Dean Rusk, John Murphy, Noah Townsend, Greg Scanlon, Dean Scanlon.
photographs by Adrienne Mc Loughlin
