Wolfe Tones 1-13 Shannon Blues 0-7
Wolfe Tones made it four from four in the senior football
championship with a win over the struggling Shannon Blues. It was a close run first half with the Blues
going in at the break a point to the good, but in the second half an early
Tones goal turned the tables in their favour and the South Boston side ran out
easy winners.
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| Gerry Troy and the Tones came through in thee end. |
It was tit for tat in the first half with the Blues matching
the Tones score for score. With Brian
Ryal moving well at center forward the Blues played some good running football
and yielded six points. The Tones huffed
and puffed, and managed a tally of five to keep themselves positioned well
entering the second.
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The Tones got the second half off to a great start with a
goal from corner forward Tomas O’Connor.
The positioning of the big Kildare man at the edge of the square paid
dividends. Last year’s finalists settled
down and Paddy Keenan motoring in the middle of the field, and the Tones
defending well, points were added from the boot of Gerry Troy, Shea Tennyson,
and Keenan. The Blues ran out of gas and
managed a solitary point from Cormac Coffey, and almost had a goal but Conor
Fitzgerald’s shot from close range was well blocked by Lorcan Molloy in the
Tones net.
Another win for the Tones in the quest for a return to the final in August.
Tones: L. Molloy, M.
O’Grady, B. Fotune, D. Maguire, R. Driscoll, S. Driscoll, I. Whelan, P. Keenan,
G. Troy, C. Walsh, M. O’Brien, S. Tennyson, L. Galligan. Blues:
E. Whelan, T. Wallace, P. O’Sullivan, C. Coffey, G. Cunniffe, S. Kelly,
M. Young, D. Somers, G. Bastible, B. Ryal, D. McElligott, I. Parker, C. Cox.
By Rory O'Donnell
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