Report by Declan Teefy:
Junior League Div 4
Sunday 8th June
Broadford 2-16
Clarecastle 2-14
Venue: Glenomra Park, Broadford
This was a well contested tie between two evenly matched sides on Sunday morning last.
Clarecastle took the initiative early on and scored the first two points with well taken scores from Niall Galvin and Johnny Casey. It wasn’t till Jack Dillion got our opening score with a well taken point that we began to settle down.
We seemed to take over with Conor O’Donnell shooting at will but only managing to get 0-2 great scores when much more were on offer.
Towards the end of the half Diarmuid Whelan pounced on a defensive handling error by
Clarecastle to rattle the net and give his customary finger wagging salute.
Into the second half, there were physical battles all over the field especially between Mark Moloney and Pa Kelly at 11 and 6 respectively. Mark definitely came out the better when scoring a wonderful individual goal midway through the second half to add to his personal tally of 1-3 over the hour.
The game ended and flowed toward the end with Broadford keeping the “magpies” at bay.
Best of the day for Broadford were Mark Moloney who was at his boisterous best, Sam
Cooper excelling with his fielding and Eoin O’Brien’s unerring accuracy from frees
particularly his last free where he was closer to the national school than the goals.
This victory gives us the opportunity of competing in a league semi final against
Clooney-Quin on Saturday week, a team who has defeated us earlier in the campaign.
Broadford:
Peter O’Farrell
Dan Greene , Cathal O’Sullivan, Tj Dillion
Mark Gunning , Sean Phelan , Sam Cooper
Jack O’Brien, Conor O’Donnell (0-2)
Eoin O’Brien (0-8: 7 frees), Mark Moloney (1-3) Paul Moloney
Aodhan O’Driscoll (0-1) Sparky Whelan (1-1) Jack Dillion (0-1) Subs: Mark Gunning (injured) off for Michael Hogan
Junior League Div 4
Sunday 8th June
Broadford 2-16
Clarecastle 2-14
Venue: Glenomra Park, Broadford
This was a well contested tie between two evenly matched sides on Sunday morning last.
Clarecastle took the initiative early on and scored the first two points with well taken scores from Niall Galvin and Johnny Casey. It wasn’t till Jack Dillion got our opening score with a well taken point that we began to settle down.
We seemed to take over with Conor O’Donnell shooting at will but only managing to get 0-2 great scores when much more were on offer.
Towards the end of the half Diarmuid Whelan pounced on a defensive handling error by
Clarecastle to rattle the net and give his customary finger wagging salute.
Into the second half, there were physical battles all over the field especially between Mark Moloney and Pa Kelly at 11 and 6 respectively. Mark definitely came out the better when scoring a wonderful individual goal midway through the second half to add to his personal tally of 1-3 over the hour.
The game ended and flowed toward the end with Broadford keeping the “magpies” at bay.
Best of the day for Broadford were Mark Moloney who was at his boisterous best, Sam
Cooper excelling with his fielding and Eoin O’Brien’s unerring accuracy from frees
particularly his last free where he was closer to the national school than the goals.
This victory gives us the opportunity of competing in a league semi final against
Clooney-Quin on Saturday week, a team who has defeated us earlier in the campaign.
Broadford:
Peter O’Farrell
Dan Greene , Cathal O’Sullivan, Tj Dillion
Mark Gunning , Sean Phelan , Sam Cooper
Jack O’Brien, Conor O’Donnell (0-2)
Eoin O’Brien (0-8: 7 frees), Mark Moloney (1-3) Paul Moloney
Aodhan O’Driscoll (0-1) Sparky Whelan (1-1) Jack Dillion (0-1) Subs: Mark Gunning (injured) off for Michael Hogan
Junior League Div 8
Tuesday 10th June
Clooney-Quin 0-14
Broadford 1-14
Venue: Clooney
Broadford maintained their 100% winning ways throughout this junior league campaign with a 3 point win over the Clooney-Quin on Tuesday evening last. Having booked our league final place with a game to go it was an opportunity (minus the leaving cert contingent and the pensioners) for lads to stake a claim.
We took a strong start and imposed our game on the opposition, who still had the
opportunity of qualifying for the league semi-final. We led after the first quarter by 0-7 to 0-2, with Seanie Consy getting 0-2 and using his athleticism to great effect. He unfortunately hurt his ankle and had to be replaced early on for Eoin O’Brien.
We finished the half strong with Niall Moloney using his aerial prowess to good effect for a well engineered goal.
However, after the interval Clooney took over with Daire Hannan and Sean Ward to the fore. The game became a one score game for the remaining ¼ until Johnny Mac, Paul O’Connell and David Hickey got late scores to pull us through.
Best on the evening were James Mason, Seanie Considine, Brian Taylor and Johnny
Macnamra.
League final awaits in the coming weeks against either Éire Og or Clarecastle.
Team as follows :
Harry Cooper
Ian Doyle
James Mason
Shane O’Connell
Sean Doyle
Keiran O’Connell
Paul Macnamara
Alan O’Brien
Brian Taylor
Jack Kelleher
Gavin Byrnes
Seanie Considine (0-2)
Seanie Casey (0-4 frees)
Niall Moloney (1-1)
Johnny Mac (0-3)
Subs:
Eoin O’Brien (0-1)
John Moran (0-1)
Paul O’Connel (0-1)
David Hickey (0-1)
Alan ‘jock’ Mcmahon
