U12’s Well Tested by Legion.

Our Under 12s had their second round of games in the County League on Sunday. We played away to Legion and had all 3 teams in action. These games, as in many of our encounters with Legion over the last few years, where highly competitive with only a couple of scores between the teams. (a) The Stacks on pitch 1 were involved in a battle royal with the Killarney boys and the match ended in a 4 point victory for Legion. This game had everything…disputed goals, goal-line clearances, shots off the crossbar and great displays from Dylan Ó Cathasaigh, Jack McGrath and Gearóid Fitzgerald among others. (b) Pitch 2 had the Black’n’Ambers coming out on the wrong side of a 3 point defeat. Once again, this game was highly charged with our boys being denied…there being a difference between our scorecard and that of the réiteoir. Conor Myers, Pádraig McCannon, David Burke and Danny Draghici were among those who played their hearts out. (c) On Pitch 3 our young Rockites gained victory over the boys from the ‘Church of the Sloes’ with 4 points to spare. We blitzed the Legion lads in the first half and were a few points up ag an mbriseadh. The second half was a different story with the older Legion team starting to out-muscle our young lads but we finished with a flurish to secure the win. Luke Chester, Niall Fitzmaurice and Seán Ó Drisceoil ran themselves into the ground and Carl Dziedziuch, Cian Purcell and Jordan Kissane scored some lovely points. Craig Ó Tíocháin saved a certain goal, the Hurley twins tackled like Marc agus Tomás Ó Sé and Ben Quilter was The Rock rock at the back. Richard O’Gara did the ‘Galvin’ role, winning the breaking ball…’an chaid shalach’, and Greg Scanlon finished the game with a top-corner strike to put the game beyond the Legion. Mighty! All players played in various positions, sometimes weakening the overall team performance but long term progression beats short term gain! Well done to all three teams and keep up the workrate at training, boys. (ii) Training on Thursday from 6pm to 7.30pm. All players are expected to attend. (iii) UNDER 12 Sunday fixtures: ‘away’ v Laune Rangers on 29ú Aibreán at 7pm; ‘home’ v Crokes on 6ú Bealtaine; ‘away’ to Listowel on 13ú Bealtaine.