Ballygarvan ease past Carrigaline

(JJ Hurley)

Ballygarvan 5-11 Carrigaline 2-11

Ballygarvan blasted their way past Carrigaline to claim a second consecutive Procure.ie South East Junior A Football title  at Crosshaven on Saturday.

Carrigaline cannot be faulted for their endeavour in this contest but they had no answer to Ballygarvan’s clinical finishing up front as Daniel Mackey grabbed himself a hattrick and Evan O’ Connor accounted for the other two green flags.

The first of the goals arrived on seven minutes as the impressive O’Halloran fed Daniel Mackey and he fired to the Carrig net as they led by 1-3 to 0-0.

The initial points had come from O’Halloran (2) and Mackey 1 as Carrigaline could not just seem to find the range.

Indeed, Ballygarvan were leading comfortably on ten minutes by 1-5 to 0-0, before Nicholas Murphy had the ball in the Ballygarvan net on 11 minutes.

The reprieve was short lived as O’ Halloran and Mackey combined a minute later to claim Ballygarvan’s second goal.

To be fair to Carrigaline they forced their way back into the game as Nicholas Murphy and Brian Murphy both had points to a single reply from O’ Halloran.

The attempted come back was short lived as man of the match Mackey added his third goal on 22 minutes as they stretched their lead to 3-6 to 1-2.

Carrigaline hit something of a purple patch as Pa Mellet, Eoin Murphy and Tim Cronin all had points heading to the interval as they narrowed the margin at half time to 3-6 to 1-5.

The early second half exchanges had Kieran Dwane adding a point to Carrigaline’s tally as Daniel O’ Mahony burst through the defence up the other end only to blaze the ball wide.

However, Evan O’ Connor made no mistake on 37 minutes and followed up again on 41 minutes to drill another ball to the Carrigaline net following a neat pass from Sean Brady.

Carrig could have thrown in the towel but Mellet, Cronin and Deckie Fitzerald all swung over points as Dylan O’ Connor answered with two of his own for the champions, with the score at 5-10 to 1-9 on 50 minutes.

Carrigaline did out score Garvan for the remaining minutes as Cronin had two frees to add to their tally, before he converted a penalty late on following a foul on Nicholas Murphy.

While the second goal was a deserved consolation for Carrig, it was Ballygarvan who deserved to claim the Pa Joe Cronin Trophy at the final whistle  

Scorers:

Ballygarvan: D Mackey 3-2, E O Connor 2-1 R O’ Halloran 0-5, D O’ Connor 0-2 S Brady 0-1

Carrigaline:  T Cronin 1-4(2f)  N Murphy 1-1, P Mellet 0-2 K Dwane  E Murphy, B Murphy, D Fitzgerald 0-1 each

BALLYGARVAN: G White; R O’Leary, Z Davidson; S Brady; S O’Donovan, M O’ Mahony; S Fenton, C O’Regan; E O’Connor, J Fenton, D Mahony; D O Maca, R O’ Halloran, N O’ Dowd.

Subs: N Dowd for  Callum Mackey (HT), P O’ Halloran for J Fenton (34), D O’ Connor for D O’ Mahony (38), M Cussen for C O’ Regan (49), Connor Mackey for Z Davidson (54)

Carrigaline: C Laverty; E O’ Mahony, P Laverty, Brian Murphy; K McNulty, S Dwane, T Foley; K Dwane, P Mallet; S Horan, Dylan Sutton, C Ryan; T Cronin, E Kavanagh, T Vaughan.

 Subs: D Fitzgerald for D Sutton (HT), P Ronayne for T Foley (35), E Kavanagh for C Ryan (49), S Connolly for P Laverty (50).

Referee Brian Coniry

Ballygarvan claimed the Procure.ie South East Junior A Football Championship in Crosshaven today.