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Aghada 0-13 Dohneys 1-8


Aghada recorded a ter-


rific win in the preliminary round of the Cork senior football championship, played in Ovens last Satur- day evening. The East Cork side will now face UCC in the first round but this vic- tory keeps their senior sta- tus and that will be huge for East Cork’s sole represent-


ative at senior level. The delight after the game was obvious with Aidan Kelle- her and his Aghada team celebrating as if they had won the county. In contrast Dohneys were dejected as the prospect of relegation now rears its head even at this early stage of the sea- son.


the


Aghada began well with opening


four points


but were to go another 17 minutes without a score as Dohneys fought


back


in what was never a clas- sic with both sides making plenty of errors. With vet- eran Pearse O’Neill lead- ing the Aghada attack with aplomb, Mathew O’Con- nor and free-taker Cian Fleming also on song the East Cork side continued to keep their noses in front. Dohneys with Cork U21 player Mark Buckley as


JAFC Midleton v Fr. O’Neill’s


Fr. O’Neill’s 1-10 Midleton 1-07


Fr O’Neill’s just got the


better of Midleton in this well contested JAFC game played at


Maginers Hill


in Youghal last Thursday evening. O’Neill now pro- gress to a quarter final meet- ing with Lisgoold. Conditions were


ideal and both sides scored ear-


ly in a first half where the sides were level on three oc- casions. Fr O’Neill’s struck first with a Robert Cullinane point from play on the third minute, but Kieran Mulcahy responded almost instantly to level matters and just 60 seconds later Midleton had the lead through Johnny


Comer. Minutes later it was all


change again as we had the opening goal as O’Neill’s broke quickly with declan Dalton sending Billy Dunne clear. His shot rebounded off the crossbar but the alert Padraig Higgins punched to the net as O’Neill’s hit the front again. It was end to end stuff as back up the field came Midleton and a foul gave the ‘Magpies’ a penalty and for the second championship game in a row Declan Ryan was pin


their main threat, did level it at six points apiece, early in the second half. Aghada drove on again


with another four, three from the boot of Fleming and one from Leahy to keep in front. However, Dohneys were given a lifeline when Tim Hartnett was adjudged to have fouled Buckley and the Cork U21 player dust- ed himself down to shoot home


from the penalty


spot. He quickly added a levelling point and sudden- ly the game was back in the


point accurate with the kick to give Midleton the goal as the lead again changed hands.


Midleton then extended


their lead with three unan- swered points, until Daniel Harrington stopped the rot for O’Neill’s with a 25th


min-


ute point from play. O’Neill’s finished the half stronger adding on two more scores to leave the sides level at the break. In the


second half Fr


O’Neill’s just simply out- scored Midleton and domi- nated the ball for lengthy pe- riods and despite some very


melting pot going into the final ten minutes. Aghada remained com-


posed and with Pearse O’Neill using his aerial ability to field the high ball, it allowed Aghada to push on again and with Flem- ing converting a free, they got back in control with O’Neill fittingly having the final say to close out the contest with a superb final effort that gave Aghada a hard fought but fully de- served win, that delighted manager Aidan Kelleher. Aghada can now look for- ward to a first round tie with UCC and win or lose


poor wides, the men from Aghavoine still had plenty in hand. There were points from all directions and in the second half as O’Neill’s re- stricted Midleton to just two scores and a lot of that was down to excellent pressure in defence. Shane Harrington, Billy


Dunne, Ryan Kenneally, Mark O’Keefe and Sean O’Connor were all on tar- get


for O’Neill’s with the


two Midleton points com- ing from placed efforts from John Comer and Declan Ryan as Midleton bow out while Fr O’Neill’s continue


that contest, they will have another game as well so this victory was a really important one for the club, who are rebuilding for the future.


Aghada: C Fleming 0-7,


P O’Neill 0-3, W Leahy, M O’Connor and K O’Shea 0-1 each. Dohneys: M Buckley 1-6 and M Quinn 0-2.


Aghada: A O’Donoghue,


T Hartnett, M Russell, K O’Donoghue, J Tynan, J O’Donoghue, K O’Shea, T O’Neill, C O’Driscoll, A Berry, P O’Neill, W Leahy, M O’Connor, C Fleming and S Bennett. Subs used R


to build momentum. One more win will see them in- volved in the latter stages of the championship, so their clash with Lisgoold should certainly be interesting. Scorers for Fr. O’Neill’s:


P Higgins 1-0, S Harrington 0-3f, M O’Keefe, S O’Con- nor, B Dunne, R Kenneally, D Dalton, D Harrington and R Cullinane 0-1 each. Midleton: D Ryan 1-1, J


Comer 0-3f, K Mulcahy 0-2, K Moloney 0-1 FR. O’NEILL’S: S


Sloane; M Millerick, C He- garty, M Motherway; J Bar- ry, S O’Connor, T Millerick;


Thursday, 20th


April 2017


Kennedy for M O’Connor Ht, J looney for A Berry 43, J farmer for W Leahy 52, D O’Brien for T O’Neill 56 and A Berry for J O’Dono- ghue 60 B/C. Dohneys: D Kelly, B O’Donovan, S Daly, N Hurley, T O’Leary, J Mc- Carthy, J Carroll, D O’Dw- yer, E Lavers, C O’Do- novan, B McCarthy, N Collins, M Quinn, M Buck- ley and D Mawe. Subs used J Kelly for B McCarthy 18, K Crowley for J Carroll 35 and D McSweeney for N Collins 52. Referee: Kevin Murphy (Nemo Rangers)


D Harington, R Cullinane; C Broderick, D Dalton, L Swayne; B Dunne, P Hig- gins, S Harrington. Subs: R Kenneally for L Swayne (40) M O’Keefe for S Har- rington (43) MIDLETON: P Dunlea;


S Smyth, E Walsh, A Stan- ton; K Hurley, L Dineen, P O’Farrell; A Ryan, K Molo- ney; L Coughlan, D Ryan, C Beausang; K Mulcahy, A Kearney, J Comer. Subs: J Deady for P Dun-


lea (20) S O’Farrell for J Deady (26, BC) Referee: Brian Murphy (Carrigtwohill)


• Midleton Captain Killian Hurley with Match Referee and Fr. O’Neill’s Captain Stephen Sloane (1)


• The ball just makes it over the bar for an O’Neill’s point


Electric Ireland Munster Minor Football Championship Quarter-Final Cork 3-21


the start. The Rebels signalled


Tipperary 1-8 CORK’S full-forward


line impressed as the Rebels cruised to a 19-point victory over Tipperary in Wednes- day evening’s Electric Ire- land Munster minor football championship quarter-final. Mark Cronin, Damien


Gore and Cathail O’Ma- hony scored 3-13 between them as the Rebels marched on to next month’s semi-fi- nals, with Tipp left to face Clare or Waterford through


the back door in a play-off. Cronin scored 2-4, Gore


added 1-5 and O’Mahony collected four points, split between play and frees, as Cork won at a canter. Re- markably, just three points separated the counties in last year’s competition but Cork increased that margin by 16 tonight. At half-time, Cork were


comfortably ahead,


leading by 1-9 to 0-4, having played against the wind from


their intentions early, racing into a 0-2 to 0-0 lead before Tipp finally got off the mark in the tenth minute, Ryan Lambe kicking the first of his two points from play in the opening half. Lambe and Conall Ken-


nedy were the only Tipp players to score from play before half-time, as Shane Ryan added a free, but Cork purred along nicely. The gap was out to six points – 1-5 to 0-1 – when Cronin, younger brother of senior player Ste- phen, volleyed home to re- ward Damien Gore’s excel-


lent turn and attack on goal. Tipp did rally with two


points in a row – Ryan and Kennedy on target – but Cork hit back with three on the spin to keep plenty of distance between the sides. Lambe pointed for Tipp in the 29th


minute but that was


cancelled out by Jack Mc- Carthy in first half stoppage time, as the visitors took an eight-point lead with them down the tunnel. The floodgates opened


in the second half as Cork put their opponents to the sword emphatically. Cronin collected his second goal in the 37th


minute and, as Tipp Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: sport@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie


went 11 minutes without a score, Gore notched Cork’s third goal seven minutes lat- er. There was a fine consola- tion goal for Tipp from sub Adam McGrath with nine minutes left but the hosts would finish the game with 14 players when Ryan was black-carded in stoppage time. Scorers for Cork: Mark


Cronin 2-4 (0-2f), Dami- en Gore 1-5 (0-2f), Cathail O’Mahony 0-4 (2f), Colm O’Callaghan 0-3, Dylan Ward, Jack McCarthy, Evan Murphy, Colm Barrett & Cillian Myers-Murray 0-1 each.


Scorers for Tipperary:


Adam McGrath 1-0, Ryan Lambe 0-3, Shane Ryan 0-2f, Riain Quigley, Conall Kennedy & Mark Stokes 0-1 each


CORK: Kevin McMa-


hon; Lorcan Finn, William Ronan, Dylan Ward; Jason Harrington,


Peter O’Dri-


scoll, Jack McCarthy; Ryan Walsh, Mark Keane; Jack Murphy, Evan Murphy, Colm O’Callaghan; Mark Cronin, Cathail O’Mahony, Damien Gore. Subs: Sean Meehan for Harrington (temp., 16-24), Colm Barrett for J Murphy (39), Cillian Myers-Murray for O’Ma- hony (42), Sean Meehan for Harrington (43), Daniel O’Mahony for Ronan (45),


eastcorkjournal


John Corcoran for Finn (46), Dara Moynihan for E Murphy (50). TIPPERARY:


Jack


Dolan; Jack Harney, Ste- phen Grogan, John Ryan; Ríain Quigley, Paul Devlin, Eanna Mc Bride; Conall Kennedy, Jake


Flannery;


Diarmuid Mulcahy, Shane Ryan, Calvin Boland; Mark Stokes, Ryan Lam- be, Darragh Tynan. Subs: Darragh Bolger for Boland (h.t.), Cian O’Sullivan for


McBride (39), Adam


McGrath for Tynan (39), Darragh O’Leary for Devlin (47), Cavan McKenna for Ryan (49), Liam Cleary for Harney (51). Referee: Richard Molo-


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