Broadford’s third team played Ogonnelloe’s second team in the Junior B League on Friday evening. A win for Broadford was not to be with Ogonnelloe playing well and ending the match 3-11 to 0.08.
The Intermediate League match on Saturday evening in Broadford surely gave us one of the best and most entertaining matches so far this season. If you missed this match to watch a certain game of rugby then you missed out! Broadford led the match for most of the first half, with Ennistymon only taking the lead briefly by a point in the ninth minute. In the last minute of first-half regular play and the score standing at Broadford 0-08 to Ennistymon 0-06, Nial O’Brien scored a cracker of a point sending the ball straight down the middle of the field from behind Broadford’s own 65-line, hitting the bar to rebound between the posts. Half-time score Broadford 0-09 to Ennistymon 0-06.
The Intermediate League match on Saturday evening in Broadford surely gave us one of the best and most entertaining matches so far this season. If you missed this match to watch a certain game of rugby then you missed out! Broadford led the match for most of the first half, with Ennistymon only taking the lead briefly by a point in the ninth minute. In the last minute of first-half regular play and the score standing at Broadford 0-08 to Ennistymon 0-06, Nial O’Brien scored a cracker of a point sending the ball straight down the middle of the field from behind Broadford’s own 65-line, hitting the bar to rebound between the posts. Half-time score Broadford 0-09 to Ennistymon 0-06.
The first 15 minutes of the second-half followed a similar pattern with Broadford taking three points and Ennistymon another four putting them two behind (0-12 to 0-010). Then a free awarded to Ennistymon some 20 or so meters out from the Broadford goal was directed unexpectedly across the box to another player who sent the ball to the back of the net before everyone on, and off the field, had time to take stock and Ennistymon were suddenly ahead by a point. Broadford though racked up another five straight points with two from Ennistymon in response. Ahead by just two points and Ennistymon threatening extra points with every play of the ball, Eoghan Mason clinched the win for Broadford with a goal in the second and final minute of extra time after the goalie was drawn out to edge of the box and Eoghan sent the ball across the ground and in to the goal. Final score Broadford 1-17 to Ennistymon 1-12
On Sunday it was off to Tubber for the next Clare Cup Division 1B match. On this occasion it was Broadford that left with the comfortable win. Approaching half-time however, even though Broadford seemed to be ahead in terms of possession, there were only two points between the two sides. A goal from Shane Taylor gave Broadford the needed boost in the 28th minute after a free from in front of the stand was sent down the field be Craig Chaplin and then tipped in to the goal off the end of Shane’s hurley. With an extra point apiece added before the whistle, the half-time ended Tubber 0-05 to Broadford 1-07.
Broadford could not be stopped in the second-half and added a further 12 points ten coming from play with Tubber adding an additional four for all their hard efforts. Final score Tubber 0-09 Broadford 1-19.
Back at home in Broadford on Sunday evening, the Under 12’s hurlers played Bodyke in their Championship match. The match was a close run thing but Broadford triumphed in the end 3-08 to 2-08.
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After the U-12’s match, Camogie was in the spotlight with the Division 3 playoff against Whitegate. A win for Broadford! Broadford 4-13 to Whitegate 0-05.