Simonstown 1—9 O Mahonys 3—10
O Mahonys were briskly out of the blocks with a scoring blitz in Simonstown on Friday night. Both teams put on a good display of attacking end to end football in wet slippery conditions. The visitors open with a goal in a first minute that saw the hosts last defender slip and the O Mahs forward found the net for the first score of the game. By the fourth minute O Mahs were 1—2 to 0—0 in front. Simonstwn replied with two Eoghan Gough points and one each for Shane McEnery and David McKeever. Two furthers points by the visitors left O Mahs leading 1—4 to 0—4 after twenty minutes. Terry Sheils made a great save but could do verylittle later on as O Mahonys after a flowing move bagged their second three pointer of the night. Gough converted a free and Tadgh Hanrahan split the posts from an acute angle. O Mahonys added another point and led at the break 2---5 to 0—6.
The visitors added four more points while Gough pointed for Simons to see scoreboard reading O Mahs 2—9 Simons 0—7 with twenty two second half minutes on the clock. Simons Luke Caffrey was at the end of some good interlinking forward play when hauled down in the square, got up took the penalty himself and smashed it to the net on twenty nine minutes to leave scoreboard reading 2—9 to 1--7. Aaron Farrelly sent over two more points for Simons. As Simons pressed forward an O Mahs breakaway led to their third goal of the night with the last kick of a very entertaining contest. Final score; O Mahs 3—10 Simons 1-9. This game saw a very welcome return to action for Rory O Connor, Ian O Rourke and Conor Sherdian. A warm welcome also to Brian Neary a new name on Simons team lists. He transferred to us this spring from the Elphin Club, Co.Roscommon.
Simonstown;
Terry Sheils,... Darragh Dooner, Mark Devlin, Ian O Rourke,...David Kavanagh, Brian Neary, Rory O Connor,....Tadgh Hanrahan(0—1), Eoghan O Neill,...Ruairi Brady, Eoghan Gough(0—4)1f, Shane McEnery(0—1),...Aaron Farrelly(0—2), Peter Duffy, David McKeever(0—1)...
Subs; Luke Caffrey(1—0)p, / D.McKeever,..Aaron Chinchilla/S McEnery..Joe Lyons/I.O'Rourke...Michael McDonagh/M.Devlin..Conor Sherdian/P.Duffy
O Mahonys;
Aaron Byrne,..Jack Lafford, Sean Betson, Padraig McEvoy,..Shane Maguire, Eimhin Power, Brian Yourell...Evan Coffey, Conor Brady...Jack Quinn, Ronan Clarke, Ciaran Vaughan...Jack McConnell, Craig Munnelly O Toole, Christopher Dillon....
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Feis Cup Final; Wed 3rd April; Simonstown V Ashbourne in Simonstown @ 8.00pm.
