Randal Og 2-12 Garnish 1-10
Goals win games they say but points are as important as well as we saw in the county junior b football championship match between Randal Og and Garnish last Saturday afternoon 30th Oct in Kealkil.
Randal's were in control for most of the first half although scores were slow coming in and it was Garnish who opened the scoring with point after 11 minutes.
Randal's responded quickly with points from Sean Daly and Padraig O'Sullivan. Then Conor O'Neill struck home a goal about 14 minutes gone.
Sean Daly added another point and it was 1-03 to 0-01 at the first water break.
On resumption Donnacha Collins and Sean Daly extended Randal's lead. Garnish then got a point from a free.
Peter Collins and Conor O'Neill got two more coming up to half time but Garnish replied with a two pints making it 1-08 to 0-04 at the short whistle.
Garnish lifted their game in the second half and got two early points before Kevin Dullea got through to score Randal's second goal.
They tapped one more over before the second water break leaving it 2-08 to 0-07.
Garnish increased the pressure again on resumption with two more points. Barry O'Driscoll and Sean Daly replied in like manner to make it 2-10 to 0-09.
Garnish reduced the lead with a point and got through for there only goal of the game to leave the littlest of margins between them at 2-10 to 1-10.
However Randal's held off the pressure with Sean Daly and Donnacha Collins clinching points o see Randal's run out winners
Team
1. Ciaran Murray
2. Ian Crowley
3. Seamus Crowley
4. Padraig Duggan
5. Cal Nyhan
6. Shane Patterson
7. Cian O'Neill
8. Peter Collins
9. Donnacha Collins
10. Kevin Dullea
11. Conor O'Neill
12. Seadhna Crowley
13. Barry O'Driscoll
14. Padraig O'Sullivan
15. Sean Daly
Subs
16. Barry O'Sullivan
17. Padraig Galvin
18. Cathal Duggan
19. Eoin Murray
20. Daniel O'Sullivan
21. Ronan Daly
22. Sam Kingston
23. Tomas White
24. Paraic White
25. Stephen Crowley
26. David Collins
27. Martin Murphy
Management
David Aherne, Aidan O'Sullivan, Ger Collins, Joe Crowley