For the second game in succession Moynalvey suffered a heavy defeat when losing out to Dunderry in Division 2 of the A League on a 4-11 to 0-9 score line in Dunderry on Saturday evening July 6th.
Dunderry 4-11 Moynalvey 0-9
Having suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Gaeil Colmcille in the Feis cup a three weeks ago, a once again severely under strength Moynalvey side shipped a heavy defeat, this time at the hands of Dunderry in the league.
Dunderry hit the ground running, finding the back of the Moynalvey net with the first score of the game after just three minutes from Luke Martyn. The home side furthered their advantage to five points with a brace of points from Aaron Newman. On the quarter hour mark James Weldon sent over Moynalvey’s opening score from a placed ball and repeated the trick three minutes later to leave the goal between the sides, 1-2 to 0-2. After finding a foothold in the middle third Moynalvey came within a point of Dunderry with a Ken Hyland effort from play and another Weldon free. However the home side stemmed the Moynalvey period of dominance and points from Alan Watters and Newman left the goal the difference between the sides again with two minutes of the half remaining. The controversial award of a penalty to Dunderry three minutes into injury time gave Dunderry a six point lead at the break on a 2-4 to 0-4 score line.
Dunderry continued the second half as they had finished the opening period, with JP Kennelly firing over after two minutes of the restart. Ken Hyland registered his second point of the evening in the 36th minute, but Dunderry furthered their advantage to eight points with a brace. A Stephen Donoghue point quickly followed by another Hyland effort left the two goals between the sides midway through the second period, 2-7 to 0-7. Any hope of a Moynalvey comeback was firmly knocked on the head when Dunderry raised their third green flag of the evening in the 47th minute. Dunderry drove on to score 1-4 over the remainder of the game with two consolation points from Hyland and Ray Ryan for Moynalvey, leaving Dunderry fourteen point winners on a 4-11 to 0-9 score line.
Moynalvey: G. Drum, B. Byrne, P. Weldon, P. Donoghue, B. Dixon, S. Donoghue (0-1), D. Donoghue, D. Smith, P. Conneely, C. McCabe, B. O’Keeffe, J. Weldon (0-3), D. Durkan, K. Hyland (0-4), R. Ryan (0-1). Subs: A. Brien for McCabe, S. Browne for Durkan, Durkan for P. Donoghue.
