Moynalvey lost out to St. Colmcilles by a kick of a ball in round 6 of Division 2 of the P.S Supplies B League on a 3-10 to 2-10 score line played at Kilmore Park Moynalvey on Friday evening May 30th.
Moynalvey 2-10 St. Colmcilles 3-10
As it was seven days previous in the Junior ‘B’ Championship clash between the sides only a kick of the ball was between the sides at the final whistle, this time St. Colmcilles reversed the result in their favour.
The visitors were first to score in the 3rd minute when wing forward Stewart McDonell split the uprights. St. Colmcilles doubled their advantage three minutes later when their opposite wing forward Eoin Sarsfield clipped over. Moynalvey’s opening score came in the 8th minute courtesy of county minor David McLoughlin. Two minutes later the Cilles restored their two point advantage when corner forward Mark Faherty pointed. The first of the games five goals came in the 11th minute when St. Colmcilles corner forward Donal Meaghar found the back of the Moynalvey net, for what would be the first of his two goals. A further trio of unanswered points from Cilles’ gave them a commanding lead on a 1-6 to 0-1 score line after nineteen minutes of play. Moynalvey gained a foothold in the game in the remaining eleven minutes of the opening period as they held their opponents scoreless and reeled off four points before the half time whistle, a brace apiece from Ciaran Ennis and McLoughlin, leaving four between the sides at the break on a 1-6 to 0-5 score line.
Two minutes after the restart St. Colmcilles centre half forward Damien Beakey put five between the sides when pointing with his right boot from an acute angle. Cathal Sheridan showed his class when curling over a superb point from the right hand side of the posts in the 34th minute, having come on as a substitute at the interval. Thirty seconds later the margin between the sides was down to a just the goal when David McLoughlin fired over his fourth point of the game, leaving the score reading 1-7 to 0-7. With 47 minutes on the clock St. Colmcilles looked to have the two points on offer wrapped up as a second goal from Donal Meaghar along with a trio of points left the visitors holding a nine point lead on a 2-10 to 0-7 score line. However in the next eight minutes a rally from the home side yielded two quick fire goals from the excellent McLoughlin; and a Sheridan free left just two between the sides with five minutes remaining. St. Colmcilles caught the Moynalvey rearguard napping when a quick free was taken and Stewart McDonnell raised the fifth green flag of the game when leaving Moynalvey ‘keeper Ollie Regan with little chance in the 56th minute. McLoughlin and substitute Willie Harnan pointed for the home side and a last minute goal mouth scramble almost resulted in the home side taking a share of the spoils, but visitors St. Colmcilles held on for victory on a 3-10 to 2-10 score line.
Moynalvey: Ollie Regan, Anthony Brien, David Kane, Eoghan Mitchell, David Durkan, Paul Conneely, Johnny Carey, Brian Conneely, Robert Lawless, Sean Duggan, Ciaran Ennis (0-2), Darragh Branigan, Robert Quinlan, David McLoughlin (2-5), Shaun Deering. Subs used: Cathal Sheridan (0-2) for Deering, Ger Fagan for Quinlan, William Harnan (0-1) for Duggan, John Donoghue for Branigan, Sean Dunlevy for Mitchell.
