MITCHELSTOWN GAA NOTES

GOOD WIN FOR U 21's

MITCHELSTOWN 5 14
AGHADA 0 10

MITCHELSTOWN U 21 PLAYED THERE 2ND GAME OF THE DICK CAHILL / GLENVILLE TOURAMENT AT HOME LAST SUNDAY MORNING V AGHADA WITH ALL THE BAD WEATHER THE PREVIOUS WEEK THE GAME DEPENDED ON THE REF GIVING IT THE GO AHEAD WHICH HE DID AND TO BE FAIR THE PITCH HELD UP VERY TO THE GAME ,WITH MITCHELSTOWN LOSING THERE OPENING GAME TO MALLOW NARROWELY THEY HAD TO BEAT THE OPPOSITION TO STAY IN THE TOURAMENT STRAIGHT FROM THE THROW IN SHANE MURPHY GOT A GREAT BALL AND DELIVERED IT STRAIGHT INTO THE FULL FORWARD LINE BALL WAS WON BY SEAN WALSH AND HE COOLEY SLOTTED THE BALLOVER THE BAR TO PUT TOWN IN FRONT AGHADA WERE LIVELY IN THE OPENING 10 MIN AND HAD CHANCES 2 KICKABLE POINTS WENT ASTRAY AND SOME GOOD DEFENDING BY THE FULL BACK LINE KEPT THEM AT BAY A FURTHER POINT BY SEAN WALSH ON THE 7TH MIN WAS QUICKLY CANCELLED OUT BY TWO GOOD SCORES BY AGHADA TO LEAVE THE TEAMS LEVEL AFTER 12MIN THEN VERY WELL KICKED POINTS BY WALSH HAD TOWN BACK IN FRONT AGAIN THEN AGHADA BROKE FROM THE BACK AND IN A GOOD MOVE WERE IN FOR A GOAL BUT FOR A GREAT HAND BLOCK BY KIERAN FOX TWO KICKED FREES BY SEAN WALSH ON THE 22ND & 23RD HAD 3 IN FRONT A VERY GOOD SAVE BY CATHAL O SULLIVAN IN THE TOWN GOAL KEPT AGHADA FROM RAISING A GREEN FLAG THEN ON THE 29TH MIN A GOOD MOVE INVOLVING SEAN O SULLIVAN BRIAN WHITE WAS FINISHED TO THE NET BY SEAN WALSH THIS WAS FOLLOWED QUIKLY BY A WELL KICKED POINT BY PAUDIE O GORMAN TO LEAVE MITCHELSTOWN LEADING AT HALF TIME 1 07 TO 0 6 TO BE FAIR TO BOTH TEAMS IT WAS A LIVELY FIRST HALF NOTHING BETWEEN THE SIDES DIFFERENCE BEING TOWN TOOK THERE OPPOTUNATIES MITCHELSTOWN STARTED THE 2ND HALF VERY BRIGHTLY WITH GOOD PURPOSE AND GOOD MOVEMENT ALL OVER THE PITCH THIS RESULTED IN A VERY GOOD GOAL BY SEAN O SULLIVAN O SULLIVAN ON THE 34TH MIN THAT GAVE TOWN GREAT BELEAVE AND THEY DROVE ON FROM THAT SCORE A SHANE MURPHY POINT ON THE 36TH MIN WAS QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY A GREAT INDIVIDUAL SCORE BY THE HALF BACK DANNY KEANE AND WITH 2 FURTHER POINTS BY SEAN WALSH ON THE 39TH & 40TH MIN MITCHELSTOWN TOOK COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE GAME AND LEAD BY 10 TO BE FAIR TO AGHADA THEY NEVER GAVE UP AND ADDED POINTS ON THE 43RD& 44TH MIN TO REDUCE THE GAP AND THEN WERE AWARDED A PENALTY ON THE 45TH MIN BUT THE OUTSTANDING CATHAL O SULLIVAN MADE ANOTHER BRILLANT SAVE THE BALL WAS WORKED UP THE FIELD AND A GOOD MOVE INVOLVING SHANE MURPHY GEORGE PENDLE WAS DISPATCHED TO THE NET BY SEAN WALSH THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A WELL KICKED POINT BY GEORGE PENDLE ON THE 50TH MIN THE LAST 10 MIN MITCHELSTOWN TOOK COMPLETE CONTROL GOALS BY BRIAN WHITE AND SEAN O SULLIVAN ON THE 54TH & 56TMIN HAD TOWN OUT OF SIGHT POINTS BY PAUDIE GORMAN AND SEAN WALSH WRAPPED UP THE SCORING. LOOKING AT THE SCOREBOARD YOU WOULD THINK THIS WAS AN UN COMPETITIVE GAME FAR FROM THE TRUTH AGHADA PLAYED SOME GOOD FOOTBALL AND ONLY FOR SOME POOR SHOOTING AND GOOD DEFENDING BY OUR FULL BACK LINE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSER MITCHELSTOWN MENTORS WILL BE DELIGHTED WITH THE WIN AND THE ATTIDUDE OF THE TEAM THEY WORKED VERY HARD WITH AND WITHOUT THE BALL AND NO DOUBT THERE WAS A BIG IMPROVEMENT FROM THE MALLOW GAME NEXT UP GLANMIRE FIXTURE YET TO BE CONFIRMED.

TEAM

C O SULLIVAN K FOX K ROCHE(CAPTAIN) S HOWARD D KEANE (0 1) J MULLINS L FINN S O SULLIVAN (2 01) S MURPHY (0 1) A DONEGAN S WALSH (2 08) G PENDLE (0 1) P GORMAN (0 2) B WHITE (1 0) J O BRIAN

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