Moynalvey overcame Longwood by a six point margin in this Division 3 AFL encounter played under lights in Longwood on Tuesday evening September 1st.
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Longwood 0-9 Moynalvey 1-12
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The game was played in Longwood as a result of Moynalvey’s pitch being unplayable due to the heavy rainfall over the previous few days. Longwood fielded without a number of their regular starters but were first to open the scoring with a point in the 2nd minute, however Moynalvey should have been out of sight by the time the half time whistle was blown, spurning a number of goal chances in the proceeding minutes. Eventually they drew level through midfielder Stephen Donoghue & added further scores from David Durkan, a second Donoghue effort, David Donoghue, Ciaran Collins & James Weldon, leaving them two points to the good at the interval on a score line of 0-6 to 0-4.
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Moynalvey were quick to further their advantage in the second half when Weldon added his second score of the game in the opening minute. However their wastefulness in the opening period looked to come back & haunt them as Longwood tagged on a further 2 points to cut the deficit to the minimum with only six minutes of the half played. However this was as close as Longwood came within their visitors, as two more points from Stephen Donoghue, followed by a massive effort from Willie Byrne & a close range John Donoghue free were followed by substitute Luke Duffy finding the net, leaving the men in maroon 7 points ahead with as many minutes remaining. Collins completed the Moynalvey scoring adding his second of the evening in the dieing minutes to leave the final score reading 1-12 to 0-9.
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Team & scorers: O. Regan, P. Weldon, P. Donoghue, R. Kiernan, B. Dixon, D. Dixon, A. Brien, S. Donoghue (0-4), J. Donoghue (0-1), D. Durkan (0-1), D. Donoghue (0-1), J. Weldon (0-2), C. Ennis, W. Byrne (0-1), C. Collins (0-2). Subs used: B. Gilsenan for Ennis, D. Treacy for Durkan, B. Byrne for Brien, L. Duffy (1-0) for Byrne, B. Conneely for S. Donoghue.
