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As
we topped the Table in this League we qualified for the
final. Kilcummin won the battle between 2nd and 3rd
placed team and the right to meet us in the decider.
Final
---Dr Crokes 1-10 --- Kilcummin
1-8.(Played in Fossa on Tuesday 26th June)
In a game that could
have gone either way we ran out two point winners over
Kilcummin in the Patrick Doyle sponsored East Kerry
Junior League final.This victory was achieved by virtue
of we finishing the stronger and scoring two points in
the last few minutes of a game that looked to be
heading for a draw.
Our opponents started
very much the better and were well worthy of their four
points to one lead at the end of the first quarter.The
story could have been much worse two minutes later only
for Andrew O'Connell's top class save.The introduction
of Ian Howard to midfield gave us the edge in this
sector for the remaining of the half. Kilcummin were
always dangerous when they went on the attack and even
though we added three points to our total before the
interval our opponents managed two points to go in at
the break 0-6 to 0-4 in front.
In the first ten
minutes of the second half we had two points without
reply to equalise the game. The teams exchanged points
in the next five minutes so it was all to play for going
into the last quarter. When Kilcummin had a goal in the
47th minute it put them firmly in the driving seat but
we equalised straight away, a sublime pass from Brian
Clarke clinically finished to the net by Mike
O'Grady.The teams exchanged points in the next few
minutes but we finished the stronger , adding on two
points for a 1-10 to 1-8 victory.
Congratulations to the
team,indeed all the panel and our mentors James Cronin,
John O'Shea and Eddie O'Connor who worked so hard all
the year to achieve this victory.
Dr Crokes Best Player;
Mike O'Grady.
Team and Scorers;
Andrew O'Connell; Kevin Landers, Mike Cooper, Colm
Griffin; John Payne, James Jones, Kevin Smyth; Nicholas
Murphy, Ruairi Mangan 0-2; Philip O'Connor, David
Looney, Mike O'Grady 1-4(0-1free); Denis Galvin
0-2(0-1free), Brian Clarke, Mike O'Donoghue 0-1.
Subs; Ian Howard 0-1, Alan Brady, Jamie Wrenn.
Dr.Crokes
3-10
Currow 1-7.
Played
in Lewis road on Tuesday night our junior team
recorded a comprehensive victory over a young but
spirited Currow side. We
got off to a great start putting on 1-5 before could
register a score. The defence was well on top
through the game with some excellent performances,
and The currow
forwards found it tough
to get easy scores. The half-time score was
Crokes 2-06
Currow 0-4. The
game ended as a contest when we got another goal
early and we went on to record some well taken
points,Currow didn’t
give up and got rewards for their efforts with a
well taken penalty,and
then some nice points. This was a good solid
performance from the crokes
and should provide the platform to build consistency
and enable us to improve our overall play. Our next
game is against Glenflesk
and no date has been set as our u21 game is fixed
for next Tuesday night in Lewis road. Panel : Alan
Kelly,James Hurley, Mike
Cooper, Gavin Tucker,Alan
Brady,Tommy Ryan, Mike
Nash, Pat Hand,Philip o
Connor, Mike o Donoghue,
Ian Howard, David Looney, James Jones, Denis Galvin,
Rory Mangan,Shane
Horgan, Johnny O
Sullivan, Tim Buckley, Brian Clarke,
Arron
Fahy,TJ O Sullivan,
Kevin Smith,
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