Tralee/St Brendans Senior Football League:
Austin Stacks 3-8 Churchill 1-5
Report by Tim Tiger Slattery
Played under lights in the Nuns field on Saturday evening,Stacks opened the scoring in the 1st minute with a point from Fiachna Mangan,Cian Purcell with a point, and shortly afterwards followed with a goal to make it 1-2 to 0-0 after six minutes.
Played under lights in the Nuns field on Saturday evening,Stacks opened the scoring in the 1st minute with a point from Fiachna Mangan,Cian Purcell with a point, and shortly afterwards followed with a goal to make it 1-2 to 0-0 after six minutes.
Shane OCallaghan with a point on eight minutes increased the lead and there was no further score until injury time when Churchill scored a goal. Leaving the half time score Austin Stacks 1-3 Churchill 1-0.
Donagh McKivergan from a free and Luke Chester from play increased the lead to 1-5 to 1-0 with three minutes gone in the second half.Cian Purcell with a goal and a Joey Nagle point shortly afterwards followed by a Churchill point made it 2-6 to 1-1 seven minutes into the second half.
Donagh McKivergan pointed a free only for Churchill with three unanswered points to leave six points between the sides.
Shane Calla with a point and a Fiachna Mangan goal late on made it a ten point game,Churchill had a point deep in injury time to finish the scoring.
Austin Stacks Team: Wayne Guthrie,Colin Griffin,Barry Walsh,Luke Chester (0-1),Luke Casey,Adam Curran,Eoghan Carroll,Barry Shanahan,Joey Nagle (0-1),Donagh McKivergan (0-2f),Fiachna Mangan (1-1),Conor Horan,Cian Purcell (2-1),Gearoid Fitzgerald,Shane O’Callaghan (0-2).
Subs Conor Myers for Cian Purcell,Jack O’Shea for Gearoid Fitzgerald.
The back game v Na Gaeil is on Monday 18th March at 12pm in Kileen.
