Moynalvey left themselves with a mountain to climb after giving Oldcastle too much of an early second half advantage in this Division 3 B League game played in Oldcastle on Thursday evening, July 2nd.
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Oldcastle 1-15 Moynalvey 1-10
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Allowing the home side build up such a big lead early in the second half proved to be Moynalvey’s downfall as they left themselves with too much of a deficit to claw back. The opening half was a tight low scoring affair with the sides tied on three points apiece after 26 minutes, Moynalvey’ s scores coming from P.J Walsh, Ciaran Collins & Daniel Treacy. However Oldcastle hit a purple patch rattling off four points in as many minutes, leaving the score reading 0-7 to 0-3 in favour of the Cavan border side at the interval.
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After the break Oldcastle furthered their lead to nine points, when within five minutes of the restart they added 1-2 to their tally. Over the remaining 25 minutes, some positional switches & substitutions buoyed Moynalvey on; and in the 52nd minute they were given real hope when substitute Luke Duffy expertly finished to the net, leaving only 2 points between the sides. Despite Moynalvey’s valiant efforts over the final minutes, Oldcastle held on to prevail by 5 points.
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Team & scorers: G. Drum, S. Carroll, P. Donoghue, S. White, A. Brien, S. Reilly(0-1), W. Mahady, B. Conneely(0-1), P. Corcoran, D. Durkan, P. Garvey, D. Treacy(0-3), C. Collins(0-1),G. McHale, P.J Walsh(0-4). Subs used: D. Kane for Durkan, L. Duffy(1-0) for McHale.
