Na Fianna & Moynalvey shared a point each as this opening round Div. 3 BFL game played in Enfield on Saturday afternoon ended up all square at 1-8 apiece at full time.
Na Fianna 1-8 Moynalvey 1-8
Immediately from the throw in it was Moynalvey who went on the attack when midfielder Ger Fagan broke forward and fired a low effort at goal only to see it parried away by the Na Fianna keeper for a ’45, from which Ciaran Ennis opened the scoring. Having found their feet Na Fianna levelled matters sixty seconds later and were three points to the good midway through the half. Ennis reduced the deficit to the minimum when pointing a free after he had been fouled in the 16th minute and firing over another effort sixty seconds later. Some wasteful shooting from the hosts over the remainder of the half allowed Johnny Carey to level matters up with the last move of the half, to leave the half time score reading 0-4 apiece.
Moynalvey were once again quicker off the mark after the resumption, with two Shane Collins efforts giving the men in maroon in white a two point lead ten minutes into the second half. Six minutes later Moynalvey extended their advantage to four points when Carey received the ball close to goal and kept his composure to fire low to the corner of the net. However Na Fianna gradually took control around the middle of the field providing the platform for the roles to be reversed as Moynalvey found themselves a point down when the home side hit 1-2 without reply. Na Fianna looked to have held out for the victory as each side added a point to their tally over the remaining 10 minutes, only for Collins to be fouled when shooting at the posts leaving Ennis with the simplest of opportunities to register his 4th of the afternoon with the last play of the game.
Moynalvey: G Drum, C. Egan, A. Brien, D. Kane, B. Regan, B. Byrne, S. Whyte (0-1), W. Harnan, G. Fagan, S. Cummins, S. Collins (0-2), E. Maher, J. Carey (1-1), A. Donnelly, C. Ennis (0-4). Subs: P. Corcoran for Maher, P. Kiernan for Cummins.
