Moynalvey battled hard but 3 goals in the last 10 minutes were their undoing against a strong St. Vincent’s/Curraha team in the opening round of the Division 2 minor league played in Curraha, Monday evening 29th June.
St. Vincent’s/Curraha 4-12 Moynalvey 1-8
The visitors started brightly with an early goal from Sean Egan after Cillian O’Sullivan’s shot had come back off the post. The next 15 minutes saw the teams evenly matched with Moynalvey getting points from Mark O’Sullivan and 3 from his brother Cillian. The almalgamation were starting to impose themselves around the middle and kicked some excellent points from distance. A speculative centre then deceived everybody and went to the net to give St. Vincent’s/Curraha a deserved 1-9 to 1-4 lead at half time.
Moynalvey needed to start the second half well and did by gaining the upperhand in the possession stakes and starting to chip away at the hosts lead. Excellent points from Cian Gorman, Darren Brennan, Padraig Harnan and Mark O’Sullivan with St. Vincent’s/Curraha getting one in response had the score at 1-10 to 1-8 entering the final 10 minutes. St. Vincent’s/Curraha showed real class to score some quality goals and run out deserving winners.
Best for Moynalvey, who were stepping up a division after winning the Division 3 championship, were Shane Browne, Cathal McCabe, Peter Hegarty, William Harnan and Mark O’Sullivan.
Moynalvey: Conor Egan, Shane Browne, Sean Carroll, Peter Hegarty, Sean Dunleavy, Sean Burke, Cathal McCabe, William Harnan, Darren Brennan(0-1), Tiernan Mahady, Mark O’Sullivan(0-2), Cian Gorman(0-1), Cillian O’Sullivan(0-3), Sean Egan(1-0), Padrag Harnan(0-1)
