Thursday, 2nd August 2018 East Cork Aghada GAA by JOHN MURPHY Main Sponsor – Irving Oil


U21 Premier 2 hurling


Championship Aghada 4-18 v Ahan Gaels 3-20 In as high a scoring con-


test as you are likely to see this year, Aghada emerged victorious by a single point in this year’s U21 hurling 1st


courtesy of a very difficult free in


was a super score. Char- lie Terry was the stand- out player on the night, with some outstanding catching and point scor- ing and when he superbly hit Aghada’s third goal 2 minutes into 1st


half inju-


ry time, it gave Aghada a commanding 7 point lead at the break. That 3rd


goal


was the result of some ex- cellent work from Marcus and Mathew Leahy. 4 minutes after the re-


round. The win came the 61st


minute.


Aghada had lost a 6 point lead in the closing 10 min- utes of this absorbing con- test, and now Mark Mc- Carthy, who was excellent from placed balls all night, stood over the free right out on the sideline. The young forward kept cool under pressure and slotted the sliothar between the uprights and Aghada had their victory. The action on the night


opened with a fine save from Ciaran O’Shea in the Aghada goals, and thereafter Aghada quick- ly settled into their stride. With a quarter gone, we


led 1-4 to a goal.


Kevin O’Hanlon was our goalscorer, albeit, the goal itself was a soft one for Ahan to concede. On 20 minutes, Hanlon had his second goal and this one


start, Charlie had his sec- ond and Aghada’s fourth goal, this time from a pen- alty, and it looked like we would kick on to a com- fortable victory from here. Gradually Ahan Gaels came


into the


more and more contest. They


hit 9 points in the next 15 minutes to Aghada’s 5 points. Aghada scores were brilliant points from O’Hanlon x 2, McCarthy , and two more for Char- lie including one fantastic strike on 43 minutes. So with 10 minutes to play it was Aghada 4-12


v


Ahan 1-15. Next up how- ever, Ahan were award- ed a penalty, which they goaled. 3 points apiece were then exchanged by both sides, before a sec- ond Ahan Gaels goal on 56 minutes brought the sides level. They took the lead two minutes later, but only briefly, before Mark and Charlie had Agha- da in front again as the


clock started to run out. Ahan equalised again on 60 minutes, before Mark hit that


free to seal and


incredible win for Agha- da. When you think there were 8 scores in the clos- ing 5 minutes alone, you get some idea of how end to end this game was. Both sides are still in the cham- pionship, so who knows a rematch might be in the offing down the line! Aghada team and Scor- –


ers Ciaran O’Shea,


Aaron Butler, Mark Healy, Declan Foley, Jordan Tynan, Daniel Creedon, Aaron Ber- ry, Kalen O’Donoghue, Charlie Terry (2-6, 1-0f), Luke O’Connell, Kevin O’Hanlon (2-4), Marcus Leahy, Mark McCarthy (0-8, 5f). Subs Used Jamie O’Hanlon, Kyle O’Shea, Darragh Murphy.


Premier


Intermediate hurling league Div 2 – Aghada 0-12 v Ballincollig 1-10;Rostellan 26/8/2018 The night after the U21


success, it was straight back out with the hurleys again, as Aghada faced Ballincollig in this year’s league. Ballincollig with the aid of the wind, were the better outfit in the 1st half. Leading 3 points to one, as the game entered the 10th


minute, they


sport@eastcorkjournal.ie Notes


struck for what would prove to be the decisive score. Their full forward made a good catch and did a neat offload, but the shot from the Ballincol- lig


forward took a huge


deflection to pass Trevor O’Keeffe in the Aghada goal. It didn’t look good for Aghada as apart at all from the wind, the visitors were on top in nearly all sectors of the field. With 5 minutes


to the break,


they led 1-7 v 0-2. Aghada had yet to score from play, with both points coming from Cian Fleming frees. On 26 minutes Aghada did create a goal chance of their own, but corner forward Kevin O’Hanlon blazed just over the bar. With the last puck of the half Ballincollig made it a 1-8 v 0-3 halftime score. Unfortunately for Aghada, the wind seemed to die somewhat at


the


start of the second period. But it didn’t matter all that much as a much improved Aghada would go on to dominate most of the 2nd period. With Tim Hart- nett, Jake


O’Donoghue


and Stephen O’Keeffe in fine form at the back, Aghada would limit Ball- incollig to only 2 points in this half, and the visitors wouldn’t score at all after the 7th


effective Aghada had, but


kept the scoreboard tick- ing over with frees. Frees mostly won by O’Neill at full forward. Ronan Ken- nedy did have a nice point from play on 10 minutes after picking up a good Timmy Hartnett


clear-


ance. And Fleming also hit a fine score from play as he pointed on the run from out on the left hand sideline. On 27 minutes a good run from Kennedy set up O’Neill for a point from play and at that stage there was only a point be- tween the sides. Aghada had two chances to draw the game in those closing stages, but Fleming was unable to convert 2 frees from a long way out, and Ballincollig held on for the win. Aghada could feel very unlucky to not have gotten at least a draw,


but the visitors could also point to a number of missed frees themselves in that second half. Aghada Team and scor-


ers – Trevor O’Keeffe, David Rice, Jake O’Dono- ghue, Tim Hartnett, Billy Hennessy, Stephen O’Keeffe, Jordan Tynan, Aiden O’Connell, Aaron Stafford, Brian Morrissey, Ronan Kennedy(0-1), Charlie


O’Hanlon(0-1),


Terry, Kevin Pearse


O’Neill(0-1), Cian Flem- ing (0-9, 8f’s). Subs Used – Kalen O’Donoghue, Mark McCarthy.


All-Ireland Champions! Huge


congratulations


to Michael Russell and Cian Fleming who both played for Cork interme- diate hurlers when they


won their All-Ireland championship


after de-


feating Kilkenny in No- lan Park. Well done also to Ronan Dwane who is manager of the team. Michael had the honour of being the winning cap- tain. And Cian is certainly amassing a nice collection of medals over the last 10 months!.A very proud day for the lads and Aghada, so well done to all.


Lotto The


jackpot current Lotto


will take place in Rosie’s Bar on August 2nd


is €3,250 and . Con-


grats to Colm O’Brien, Ger Murray, Elaine Sisk, Paul Crowley and Chris Moynihan, who won €30 in last week’s draw.


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Pearse O’Neill was the most


minute. Upfront forward


with


the game becoming very stop and start, Aghada never really got fully into their stride. Cian Fleming


• Cork intermediates Aghada players - Michael Russell and Cian Fleming


• Winning U21 hurling team @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal eastcorkjournal Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email: sport@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web: www.eastcorkjournal.ie


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