Moynalvey travelled to Longwood on Tuesday, March 18th and came away with a share of the spoils after this close fought game played under lights.
Longwood 0 – 11 Moynalvey 1 – 8
The game did not kick off until after 8:30pm due to the late arrival of referee Gus Martyn, but when the game did start it was Moynalvey who settled quickest opening the scoring through Brian Gilsenan. Further points from Ciaran Collins and Robbie Quinlan in response to 2 Longwood pointed efforts left the score at 0 – 3 to 0 – 2 after 15 minutes.
Good interlink work between John Donoghue, Gilsenan and Mark O’Sullivan then set up Willie Byrne who crashed home to the Longwood net to push Moynalvey further clear. A Byrne pointed free and a second point for Gilsenan in response to 3 Longwood points left the half time score at 1 – 5 to 0 – 5 in favour of Moynalvey.
The second half resumed nip and tuck with points from David Donoghue and Gilsenan cancelling out 2 similar Longwood scores, leaving it 1 – 7 to 0 – 7 with 20 minutes remaining. However, Longwood then hit a purple patch and with Rory Maguire and Michael Burke in particular in good form, the men in white hit 4 points on the trot to go 0 – 11 to 1 – 7 ahead with 8 minutes left on the clock.
Moynalvey then dominated the remaining minutes and after missing a free from a similar distance a few minutes earlier, Byrne made no mistake second time round when pointing from 30 yards to level things up. There was still time for a winner as Moynalvey pressed however, John Donoghue’s last minute effort dropped short into the keeper’s arms.
This is Moynalvey’s third league draw from as many games and they will need to start finishing teams off better as championship time looms.
Team & scorers – O Regan, R Kiernan, P Donoghue, D Kane, P Weldon, D Dixon, A Brien, J Donoghue, G Fagan, D Donoghue (0 – 1), C Collins (0 – 1), R Quinlan (0 – 1), M O’Sullivan, W Byrne (1 – 2), B Gilsenan (0 – 3). Subs – B Conneely for Fagan, J Weldon for Quinlan.
