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Abernethy Cup Quarter-final Cloyne 2-14
Photos by DENIS O’FLYNN
Cloyne
Fr. O’Neill’s 1-16 reached the
penultimate stage of the prestigious
Abernethy
Cup when they had a nar- row one point win over Fr. O’ Neill’s at a well pre- pared and sun drenched Rostellan. Cloyne led at the break by two points only for O’ Neill’s to hit 1-4 in an eight minute pe- riod immediately after the break. This led to a great latter period of the game where Cloyne scored two goals at crucial times in the game to kill off a nev- er say die attitude from Fr.
O’ Neill’s. The
opening period
was fairly level with both sides evenly matched. Ci- aran Mullins opened the scoring with the evergreen Diarmuid O’Sullivan hit- ting number two on two minutes. Fr. O’ Neill’s replied with a brace of points by Kevin O’Sulli- van, the first from a free and the second from a lovely cross field pass from Eoin Conway. Paudie O’Sullivan and Liam O’Driscoll exchanged points before Paudie hit
a peach of a point from a sideline ball to applause from both sets of support- ers. O’Driscoll and Kevin O’Sullivan added a point each to put Fr. O’ Neill’s briefly ahead by a point. However the O’Sullivan brothers had the Cloyne lead restored again as we entered added time with Paudie hitting two frees. Thomas Millerick, follow- ing one of his traditional solos, added his first point but Paudie again penal- ised some sloppy O’ Neill’s defending with a point as referee Niall O’Neill blew the half time whistle. Fr. O’ Neill’s hit their
Paudie
purple patch on the re- sumption with Kevin O’Sullivan popping over three points, two 65’s and a free with their goal com- ing from Paudie McMa- hon. Daniel Harrington sprung for a lovely point but
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chael Cahill who struck a great shot past ‘George’ Sloane in the O’ Neill’s goal. Jake Coady followed this up with a point and Cloyne were leading by the minimum as we en- tered the final quarter of the
game. However O’Sullivan
capatilised on a stray pass and added a further point for Cloyne. Ian Cahill and Pa Dineen added a point each for Cloyne as Kevin O’Sullivan struck another point for O’Neill’s keeping three points between the sides. Cloyne’s goal came from a long clearance from the aforementioned Diarmuid O’Sullivan who found Ian Cahill roving outside the 20m line. Ca- hill let the ball off to Mi-
O’ Neill’s battled back and went two points up again as Kevin O’Sullivan hit two frees and Liam O’Driscoll got on the end of a Mark O’Keeffe pass to raise
another white
flag. Calamity struck O’ Neill’s as Cloyne captain, Keith Dennehy, slotted a low ball past Sloane for the all-important goal and put a point between the sides again. Both sides played outstanding hurl- ing as O’ Neill’s tried their best
to get ahead again. Kevin O’Sullivan levelled
the game with five min- utes remaining but Brian Minahane
and Coady
sealed Fr. O’ Neill’s fate with a point each and with a last throw of the dice
Liam O’Driscoll’s
shot sailed over the bar to let a point between the sides at
the end. Cloyne
now meet Aghada in their semi-final. Scores: Cloyne; P.
O’Sullivan 0-6 (0-4f, 0-1 s/l), M. Cahill, K. Denne- hy 1-0 each, J. Coady 0-2 (0-1f), D. O’Sullivan 0-2, B. Minihane, C. Mullin, I. Cahill, P. Dineen 0-1 each. Fr. O’ Neill’s; K. O’Sul-
livan 0-10 (0-6f, 0-2 65’), L. O’Driscoll 0-4, P. Mc- Mahon 1-0, T. Millerick, D. Harrington 0-1 each. Teams Cloyne: D. Óg Cusack, B. Fleming, S.
Beausang, M. Lynch, C. Smith, D. Jermyn, J. Coady, B. O’Shea, P. O’Sullivan, K. Dennehy, C. Mullins, M. Cahill, I. Cahill, D. O’Sullivan, B. Walsh. Subs: P. Dineen for C.
Mullins (ht), D. Cahill for D. Jermyn (48). Fr. O’Neill’s C. Sloane,
G. Millerick, S. O’Con- nor, J. Barry, M. O’Keef- fe, T. Millerick, D. Har- rington, R. Cullinane, M. Millerick, P. McMahon, L. O’Driscoll, P. Steele, E. Conway, K. O’Sullivan, B. Dunne. Subs: E. Motherway for
B. Dunne (49), D. Sexton for P. McMahon (54), C. O’Connor for P. Steele (58). Referee: Niall O’ Neill (Midleton).
• A bit of getting to know you during Abernethy Cup game.
• Daniel Harrington Fr O’Neills and Jake Coady Cloyne.
• Ian Cahill Cloyne makes do with no hurley with Sean O’Connor Fr O’Neills.
• John Barry Fr O’Neills tests out Brian Walshs jersey.
• Liam O’Driscoll Fr O’Neills with Brian Fleming and Mce Lynch Cloyne.
• Michael Millerick Fr O’Neills keeps the ball in play with Pa Dineen Cloyne.
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