Moynalvey suffered a league loss to Na Fianna for the third time in twelve months when going down to the Enfield/Baconstown combination side in Division 2 of the A league on a 4-7 to 0-7 score line at Baconstown on Sunday afternoon February 17th.
Na Fianna 4-7 Moynalvey 0-7
Na Fianna got off to the perfect start in their 2013 A League campaign when going a goal up within 60 seconds. A brace of points from Moynalvey top scorer James Weldon left the minimum between the teams after seven minutes of play. Na Fianna pushed two points ahead before Weldon sent over his third point of the afternoon narrowing the deficit to a single point once again. County player Jamie Queeney fired over for Na Fianna in the 12th minute, before two Moynalvey points from Ciaran Ennis and Mark O’Sullivan left the sides level for the one and only time of the game. Despite owning possession between the 18th and 27th minutes Moynalvey failed to make their dominance count, which left them rueing their missed chances at half time, as Na Fianna went through a purple patch of possession themselves when they racked up three goals in final five minutes of the half to take a commanding 4-4 to 0-6 half time lead.
Whatever chances of a Moynalvey recovery were dented when three scorable chances were fired wide within five minutes of the restart. By the time Moynalvey registered their seventh point of the afternoon through the boot of James Weldon, Na Fianna had added 0-2 to lead by eleven points after 47 minutes. Each side added a further point to their tallies in the remaining 13 minutes to leave the final score line reading 4-7 to 0-7 in favour of the reigning Division 3 League and Intermediate champions Na Fianna.
Moynalvey: O. Regan, B. O’Keeffe, P. Donoghue, B. Byrne, A. Brien, P. Harnan, B. Dixon, S. Donoghue, D. Smith, J. Weldon (0-4), C. Ennis (0-1), J. Donoghue (0-1), C. Collins, W. Harnan, M. O’Sullivan (0-1). Subs used: B. Conneely, D. Kane, D. Durkan.
