Kilcummin  3-8  ------ Dr Crokes   1-13(Played in Lewis Rd on Tuesday 8th April)

 In a game in which we had every chance of winning we lost out by a point to Kilcummin on Tuesday last. Our opponents won with a goal on the stroke of full time but in fairness to them they engineered three good goals during the hour. We did get two chances in injury time to equalise the game but wided on both occasions.

 On a night suited to good football  both teams performed to a standard that was often well above Junior grade. Kilcummin had a point in the first minute but by the end of the first quarter we had scored 0-8 without reply to lead 0-8 to 0-1.The second fifteen minutes belonged to our opponents who scored 2-3 to our nil to go in at the interval 2-4 to 0-8 in front.

 The teams exchanged points in the first five minutes of the second half but a goal and a point from Ian Howard and a point from Shane O'Neill put us three points ahead at the end of the third quarter. Kilcummin had two points to our one in the next ten minutes to leave us two points ahead with five minutes to go. We withstood our opponents pressure for the next four minutes but were not able to stop their last ditch attack which yielded a match winning goal. We did have two chances to equalise but were narrowly wide with our efforts.

 Alan Kelly could not be faulted for the goals. Best in defence were Kevin Landers, Donal Cronin and Kevin Smyth. We had plenty of possession from midfielders Ian Howard and James Jones. In attack Andrew Kennelly (it's great to see him back), Shane O'Neill and Denis Galvin were best.

 Dr Crokes Best Player;   Ian Howard.

 Team and Scorers;  Alan Kelly; Darren Coffey, Kevin Landers, John Bartlett; Donal Cronin 0-1, Kevin Smyth, Chris Egan; Ian Howard 1-1, James Jones; David Neeson 0-2, Andrew Kennelly 0-1, Shane O'Neill 0-2; Denis Galvin 0-3(0-1free), Tommy Regan, Michael O'Donoghue 0-2;    Subs;  Tommy Brosnan 0-1, Rory O'Sullivan.