By Neil McEnaney
Full Time Score:
Donegal Boston: 3-15
Connemara Gaels: 1-11
A comprehensive victory for Donegal kept their seniors undefeated in this years championship. Donegal raced to a 9 point lead early on in this game which the Gaels were never able to recover from.
Donal O’Sullivan opened the scoring for Donegal with a well taken free from the top of the D. Jordan Morrissey added another from play after some quick build up play between Cian O’Grady and Donal O’Sullivan.
From the resulting kickout, Cory Gallagher and Ciaran McDevitt forced the turnover with McDevitt unselfishly squaring it to O’Grady for a simple palm into the net. O’Sullivan added another point from a well taken free close to the 45.
A beautiful sideline point from Oran Cunningham opened the scoring for Connemara. Stefan Okunbar broke a ball through to Jack Lynch who was denied by a sprawling save by Hugh Boyle in nets for Donegal. From the turn over, Neil Mulcahy made a strong run up the field to set up O’Sullivan who was denied well by Bryan O’Flaherty in the Gaels nets.
Sean Lowry picked up a kickout in his own half before using his speed to devasting effect running the length of the field before finishing into the bottom corner. McCarron added a point to extend the lead to 9.
Connemara battled back before half time to narrow the gap with some well taken scores from Cunningham and a beautiful outside of the boot point from corner back Jack Lundy. It was Lundy who turned provider for Connemara’s goal, with a brilliant through ball finding Cunningham who slotted the ball under the outrushing Boyle’s legs.
Half Time Score:
Donegal Boston: 2-6
Connemara Gaels: 1-5
While Connemara did well to narrow the gap to 4 points, they weren’t able to keep that momentum going into the second half. Points from McCarron and O’Grady kept the scoreboard ticking over for Donegal.
Ciaran Murtagh came off the bench for Donegal and made his presence known immediately, taking on his man and scoring a nice point. It was Murtagh who turned provider for Donegal’s last goal of the game. He found O’Sullivan inside with a great kick pass who made no mistake from close range.
Connemara, to their credit never gave up and battled back with a flurry of points from Waddick and Keogh to finish the game strongly.
Man of the Match: Donal O’Sulliivan
Referee: Niall Malone
Team and Scorers:
Donegal: Hugh Boyle, Cian Lynch, Neil Mulcahy, Cory Gallagher, Jason Noctor, Ethan McDevitt, Shane Carthy (0-1), Jordan Morrissey (0-2), Sean Lowry (1-0), Ben McCarron (0-3), Ciaran McDevitt, Donal O’Sullivan (1-6), Cian O’Grady (1-1)
Connemara Gaels: Bryan O’Flaherty, Sean Kennedy, Jack Lundy (0-1), Colman Mulkerrin, Stefan Okunbar, Keelan Beirne, Jack Lynch, Adam Waddick (0-1), Bryan Fadden, Dylan Murtagh, Oran Cunningham (1-4), Ross Keogh (0-2), Mark Nolan
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